"No, Mitt, see, it's this series of <i>tubes</i>..." Romney Confuses MySpace and YouTube
By Nicole Belle Friday Jul 27, 2007 8:31pm
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney traveled along the Interstate 35 corridor near the site of next month's straw poll Thursday, promoting his call to try to keep pornography away from children.[..]
Romney earlier in the day said he would encourage computer manufacturers to install internet filtering software on computers sold at retail to help parents protect their children from pornography.
But Romney showed some unfamiliarity with the Internet when he discussed the problem of sexual predators and children.
"YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other," Romney explained. "YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000."
Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.
The web site MySpace is the one to which Romney actually was referring. MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said this week it had found 29,000 registered sex offenders who had submitted profiles to its site and removed them.
Hmm....I guess that's why Mitt refused to commit to the YouTube Debate. By the way, Mitt's raising a lot of money in Utah (which shouldn't be too surprising), but he's also spending a lot of money there too. Guess what on? Mitt bobble-head dolls. I kid you not. Given out to donors who gave more than $96 during a campaign fund drive.
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I'm pretty computer illiterate, and I know the difference between YouTube and MySpace. Maybe some of the hair dye is seeping into his brain.
dattexas @ 1:
ZING!
A bobble head is so appropriate. Romney looks like an empty-headed department store mannequin. Dan Quayle if he were Mormon.
"YouTube is a place that allows people to order pornographic movies, which I oppose. No, wait - that's the Marriott hotel chain. Not that I knew anything about that while I was its chairman."
i have no respect for this bastard mit. he has 5 military age sons ALL taking deferments from gop-bush/cheney war. fuck this bastard. the gop only shows its comtempt for the troops and the constitution of this great country. the gop are reichwing neocon chickenhawks. a total bunch of cowards.
Bobble head dolls. Jeeze,you can't make this stuff up! LOL
Yet again a neo-con prezuhdenchul candidate who proves how out of touch he really is with mainstream 'murika
1. Show off your complete ignorance of 21st century mass comm technology to the younger generations
2. When all else fails, attack the scourge (and TERROR!) of internet porn on the kiddies.
Old playbook, Mitt - get with the program already!
What a fucking shit bag Mitt is.
DickCheneyShotMeInTheFace @ 3:
Mr. Potatoe head himself = Quayle.
But do you really want a president who knows the in's and out's of myspace? If he were too in the know we'd mock him for that as well.
BTW, Mitt (that means "By The Way", on the internets, by the way)
Don't you have a dog to kick somewhere?
Ryan @ 10:
I want a prez who knows what the fuck he is talking about. We have had enough of idiots.
I don't believe for a minute that Romney doesn't know the difference between MySpace and YouTube. He's just selling stuff to the base/computer illiterate to make it seem like he has a legitimate reason not to attend the debate. Shorter-he's lying.
Jo @ 12:
Or she !
Well, now that Romney's embarrassingly loopy gaffe has been corrected (YouTube is MySpace? Ghaa-ha-ha!), I expect old Mitt will change his mind, apologize profusely, and then jump eagerly into the debate.
Because after all, if he didn't, it would look like he MADE UP a reason to dodge the YouTube debate...kinda like how he made up a reason to dodge Vietnam.
Romney, who just days ago happily displayed a supporter's sign proclaiming "No to Obama Osama and Chelsea's Mom," wants no part of it. The man who compared Hillary Clinton to Karl Marx and pledged to "double Guantanamo" complained of the YouTube debate, "I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman." That level, as the Huffington Post detailed Thursday, is the new plateau where Romney cash buys the loyalty of Republican activists in Iowa.
For the details, see:
"GOP Candidates to Add YouTube Event to NAACP Boycott?"
What I wouldn't give for a piece of action as Romney's hair dye supplier!
Loo Hoo. @ 13:
This a man who strapped his dog (SEAMUS) to the top of his car, and thought himself clever...he's stupid. Do you want this guy's finger on the nuclear button?
He was a better used Yugo GV salesman.
Mitt Breck Girl Romney looks like a televangelist.
I guess Hugh Hewitt must have coached him on that one...
A bobble-head? No way! Mitt is more of a bubble-head. Another fortunate son who believes it's his destiny to be leader of the free world. The US can do better than allow more fortunate sons simply slide into seats of power and responsibility.
Pack it in Mitt, you and McCain better start enjoying the presidential campaign from the golf course.
gempei @ 23:
And take Rudy as your date. I hear he'll throw on a dress in a minute.
Loo Hoo. @ 13:
Bingo! Guiliani does the same thing. Of course they don't want to debate on CNN/Youtube. Someone that's not a "bobble-head" follower will call them on their lies.
Mitt Romney is the biggest nerd and troglodyte on the planet! I'm not sure he can even put on his own socks in the morning. geesh!
Giuliani and Romney - the big whoosie copouts
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Mitt Romney & Ted Stevens, the dream ticket for the future!
Is this really relevant? Show me a Republican politician that isn't completely out-of-touch and ignorant to the youth/technology culture, and I'll eat my hat. Hell, I'll eat my entire head. It may be physically impossible, but I'd wager finding a conservative tool like Romney who understands "the internets" is equally so.
Man, what a douchebag this guy is. Giuliani is way scarier to me, but Romney is just such a laughable buffoon. He's like a Ken doll, with a bad '80s action movie villain haircut. I swear, he looks like some Euro-trash megalomaniac from a shitty Steven Segal flick or something.
GonzoD @ 29:
"It's not a big truck!"
I love when they show clips of Ted Stevens on The Daily Show! My favorite is when they randomly play the clip of him yelling "NO!!" on the senate floor.
Mitt is a caricature of a smooth politician stuffed into a suit. He may win the nomination because of Church of the Latter Day Saints backing, though.
Loo Hoo. @ 13:
Exactly.
Romney is the perfect model Repug....doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Mitt only understands dog care
Bobblehead dolls, what a perfect representative of the Republican party. Flip-Flop-Flip-Flop!!! ha ha ha!!! maybe he can release one with a purple heart band-aid or better yet he can ship each bobblehead doll with the official flag from ground zero.
So how do they tell the difference between Mitt and the bobble-head?
Maybe the doll knows how to keep its mouth shut.
Wastn't it the *Roberts/Alitio* Supreme Court that had that recent ruling that decided that restricting child porn on the net is a supposed freedom of speech issue?
Hey, I'm all into free speech, but I guarantee that the Founders weren't thinking kiddie porn is any kind of speech.
Interestingly though, if Mitt was trying to say something bad about MySpace and the various kinds of predatory creatures on it.....
"The Official MySpace Page of Governor Mitt Romney"
... just sayin'.
I have to confess, I just can’t seem to get past the name Mitt.
Every time I hear it, I think of my Grandfather sitting in a kosher deli, turning to the waiter and saying:
Gimme ah bagel “Mitt” a bissel lox & a shmear of cream cheese.
He would have called Mitt Romney “A goyisha putz”.
I am pretty sure Mark Foley could give the GOPers a quick lesson on the differences between youtube and myspace - he seems pretty tech savvy when it comes to communicating with the kids. :D
He isn't confused. He got the word out that Google was the bad guy -- not Rupert.
Now, how many neanderthals will believe this?
Willard Macaca Romney, the new "Cover Girl" spending $ 2,000 on beautification and make up is afraid of You Tube snowman videos.
Does that Willard bubble head doll come with a little travel kit with make up?
Actually, I think kids need more porn. This way they will have a release and not grow up and be anal retentive.
brian, I specified that it was kiddie porn (porn involving kids) that the Alitio/Roberts/Thomas SC ruled was free speech.
But other than that problem with your comment, I don't disagree.
Gosh, just thinking...
I wonder how many of those 29,000 child predators kicked off MySpace were GOP political appointees from various agencies?
Hell, reason tells us at least half had to have been from DHS...
No Mitt ; No Shit . . .
The SCOTUS says the kiddie porn is free speech, but they say that saying "Bong Hits For Jesus" isn't.
Can Congress impeach members of the Supreme Court?
I wonder... did he stop pursuing this issue because he's embarrassed about his mistake, or was it because he now knows that the site he's referring to is not the site that hosted the democratic debate, but a site owned by fair-and-balanced media mogul Rupert Murdoch?
They get all in your face while they confuse the Nazi enabling Prescott Bush site with Armred Forces Radio.
Thanks for airing Rush but don't give me that look. Cause it ain't gonna work.
MR is a very smart guy. I think he'll win the GOP nomination because he is courting the religious votes. By trying to improve "culture" he is using the rhetoric that is oftenly used by republicans.
No matter how much we laugh at his mistake, when it comes to 08 election time, the GOP presidential nominee will run on a platform to change "culture." This could too prevent the Democrats from winning.
Whats this scenario reveals is that the Democrats must appeal to religious voters. Any ideas how?? Criticizing MR over how stupid his campaign seems won't help the democrats at all because religious conservatives care about this cultural issue.
> ... the GOP presidential nominee will run on a platform to change “culture.” ...
Yup!!!! But that dog won't hunt (anymore.)
The fact that this imbecile, generic TV weatherman is even considered as a legitimate candidate for the presidency is mind-boggling. How the hell did he get elected in Massachusetts?
Glad we're done with him in Mass, and that his little Muffy didnt get in either. Deval ROCKS!!!!!Dont get taken by this LIAR America. Keep him in Utah where it belongs.
Rupert Murdich owns Myspace? I wondered why the MSM and the prudish Repugs weren't going after the management for not properly monitoring that pervert magnet of a site! Now its clear, they are afraid to take Murdich on.
As far as Mitt goes, he is just a dumber 21st century version of his Dad, 1960's Michigan Governor, George Romney (R-Brainwashed). Like Mitt, George's main qualification for the Repug nomination was that he was more handsome than Tricky Dick Nixon, Nelson Rockafeller and Ronald Raygun.
But, like Dubya's Dad, George pulled enough strings to keep Mitt the Mutt out of the Military Draft.
FYI: According to this article, the bobble-heads are given for $1000 donations, not $96.
Which is somewhat ironic, considering both articles ($96 version and $1000 version) come from the same source, Deseret News.
I hope somebody is keeping track of all these stupid remarks because they will make great ads; did anybody get this one on video?
This guys have lied and pandered so much that they must have scrambled eggs for brains and end up being nothing but an empty suit. But that's one benefit of a long campaign season, eventually the suit collapses, the stupidities, and flip-flops pile up, and you can begin to see if there's any substance. So far, nope - no gravitas in sight. Where's a serious competent Scot when we need one?
WTF? Don't these people have advisors? Next, he's going to tell a fifth grader how to spell "potatoe." lolz
purvis ames @ 53:
That's the exact same thing I thought about Bush when he ran the first time. I couldn't fucking believe it!
I feel confident in saying that the majority of Republicans DO NOT read. Most of them can, but they choose not to. They are only briefed with talking points. Someone told them YouTube had 29,000 registered sex offenders, to which, they are too fucking lazy to do their own research to verify. They are either fucking idiots or lemmings. But then again, they could be both. They are idiot fucking lemmings.
Have a nice day.
What an idiot
Mitt has no problem mentioning his faith in a vague, generic kind of way, but he won't address specific questions about the LDS beliefs. I think if you use "faith" as a positive attribute, you should be open to questions as to just what do you believe. This idea that someone deserves credit because "at least they were following their beliefs" leaks like a sieve when you point out that someone like Hitler followed his beliefs to the bitter end. Does he deserve credit? Not. So let's ask Mitt if he thinks being president might be good training for his future as a God of his very own planet.
If I was worth $250 million dollars I would enjoy life, and not run for anything. Especially if my reason for running for President was just to ruin life for most Americans, like Mitt Romney's is.
If the Democrats lose in '08 to this bunch of Republican clowns, Lord help them. They really shouldn't have to campaign at all. Just don't say anything stupid, and simply let them self destruct!
bobblehead dolls...shouldnt that be dickhead dolls. just a thought.
I suggested elsewhere that a good cartoonist could make a good super-hero of "magic underwear" Romney.
Imagine the savior of the world in diapers and a starched white shirt, completely buttoned-up, with a thin black tie.
How could you beat that?
if we just let these nitwits have the mike, they will eliminate themselves. look what bush has done but it took him six years.
I don't expect him to know the ins and outs, however if he is going to make a factual claim about sex offenders registered on the web site of a business, he ought to be able to get the business name right.
The only thing this Rethug. asshole cares about is his many oceanfront houses and his bank account and beyond that nothing else.
No matter how stupid this campaign seems, he's courting to the voters that put Bush in office in 04. So what exactly have the democrats doen to get these people's votes?? If the Democrats don't, then there should not be much chance of winnign the presidency. Even tho Bush sucked in 04, he still won!
These religious voters are a force to be reckoned with. The Democrats need to reach out to them!
Romney is another right wing lying phoney.
Therefore he will be the republican nominee for President of the United States and will more than likey win as his lies become more apparent.
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Someone should tie Mitt's tubes.
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