Romney staff disrespectful to hosts, cafe owner said (video)

[cal04]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/13/kptm-romney-staff-disrespectful-to-hosts-cafe-owner-said/

The owner of an Iowa cafe which Mitt Romney visited on Friday say the Republican presidential candidate's staff were "arrogant" and disrespectful to her establishment, CNN affiliate KPTM reported.

Romney called owner Dianne Bauer of the Council Bluffs Main Street Cafe to offer an apology, the report said.

A Romney campaign source told CNN they had "assured the Bauers that the campaign would take responsibility for any remaining issues."


(Broken things, customers couldn't use the bathrooms
Table clothes got ripped up thrown in the back room. Dad's things got broken. Is he going to be that way to us little people if he gets elected.
What a surprise, NOT)

[enough]

1. The story goes beyond the staff to Romney himself. The owner said that Romney's response

on the telephone after the event (he called to apologize) "felt like it was a mocking." She then goes on a rant about if this is the way he treats people, what would he be like as a president.

It's really worth watching the video to get the flavor.

[pa28]

20. Yes, Romney's phone call was the important part of the story.

He'd have no more regard for her as president than he had for Seamus the dog, or that kid he terrorized at Cranbrook or the jobs and lives destroyed by Bain Capital's equity stripping operations.

Even after her little epipheny I got the funny feeling she was going to vote for Romney anyway! Go figure.

[roguevalley]

28. why would she vote for him? I think she hates him.

[pa28]

31. She does hate him but most of her contempt was reserved for Obama.

Her heirlooms were carelessly broken and tossed aside, tablecloths wadded up and thrown away to improve the photo op and she lost nearly a full workday. To add insult to injury she was never allowed to talk with Mitt. His response was to call her up, mock her complaint and offer snide "non apology" apology for the whole affair.

She recounted these things and said "it was almost like Obama was here".

Yes, Obama would have done all those things and then taken a little extra time to burn the place down on his way out just because he's . . . Obama.



I think she's voting for Romney. I can't explain why but I think she will.

[roguevalley]

35. ah. ok. thanks.

[pa28]

36. Well you asked.

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

40. I completely agree with you, pa28

It's like a wife saying her husband is a horse's ass, but she loves him anyway.

[roguevalley]

59. and I thanked you for the information. What is your problem? Jeez.

[DaveJ]

45. Yeah, she probably will vote for Romney

Just like my father-in-law will, who is an ex fireman with a nice retirement which Repukes campaign against.

[liberalnationalist]

49. anyone who votes for

raw money can go to hell....
if I have to quit talking to people including friends and family over it...then so be it

if they ever need anything...guess what I will say...you voted for Raw Money which is basically a vote for not only F**K me but F**K America...so go to hell and F**King F**K your self.

[coalition_unwilling]

61. A most righteous rant! I dispensed with many people I once thought

'friends' over their support for Operation Shocking and Awful, so I understand the feeling.

[Smilo]

48. When she said that about Obama.........

I am glad she got that treatment from Rmoney - obviously she has no clue and I agree she will vote GOPT.

[liberalnationalist]

50. this is this woman

Aye waistent allaid a to talk a to a my gowada Raw MOney, bit aile vate fur em

[Siwsan]

2. Gee - why am I now surprised??

If his staff weren't already arrogant bastards, no doubt his arrogant bastardishness will have rubbed off on them by now. And, yes, I made up the word bastardishness. I credit the Chardonnay.

[DCKit]

3. Sure, but were they wearing the requisite brown shirts?

They've pulled the video, and the comments are (mostly) from RMoney staffers.

[Quantess]

4. WoooW, that lady was pissed off.

I am going to take a guess and say she's a lifelong republican?
Nice job pissing off your base, Rmoney!

[JHB]

5. This is the place where he couldn't find the word "doughnut" in his vocabulary

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[dixiegrrrrl]

63. I missed the doughnut thing

what did he say about doughnuts?
or not say
or whatever???

[JHB]

65. When he was finishing up at the diner, there was a chocolate "goody" on the table...

If one were generous, you could say he blanked on the word "donut", but given his track record of cluelessness when relating to us mere mortals, you have to wonder if he just doesn't know, that he never connected the word to that particular form of pastry. (and assuming he's heard the word.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/12/1099539/-Mitt-Romney-Can-t-Identify-a-Chocolate-Donut-Really

made Letterman's Top 10:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/14/letterman-takes-on-romney-doughnut-gaffe_n_1597088.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

67. Hopefully breathing the non-rarified air dow among the little people

will soon do him in.
Jesus..at least Nixon came from a real home with a drunken dad..some reality sank in for him.

[enough]

6. Direct link to original video and story:

http://www.kptm.com/story/18772441/cafe-owner-after-hosting-romney-event-i-felt-like-it-was-a-mocking

Cafe Owner After Hosting Romney Event: "I felt like it was a mocking"

snip>

She was complaining about the event to a friend when reporters overheard her and posted about it online.

That's when Romney called Bauer himself. She says he explained that it was just a misunderstanding that she did not get to meet him, but the phone call didn't smooth things over for her.

"He responded 'well, I'm sorry your table cloths got ripped off, wadded up and thrown in the back room' and I took it as mocking," she said. "We're the ones he's wanting to get the votes from, you'd think we would have been treated better."

She says the whole experience left her wondering. "With how he treated me, is that how he's going to treat others? You know, if he gets in office is he going to be that way to us little people?"

snip>


This seems to me the most egregious story yet of his personal disconnect from his fellow citizens.

[xtraxritical]

44. "It's just like Obama was here". Fuck the stupid reichwing racist bitch.

[Hubert Flottz]

60. She's lucky Mitt never tied her on the roof of his car on the way out of there!

Or hold her down and cut off all her hair.

[AlinPA]

7. I don't get what she said about Obama. Seems to imply he would be a problem?

[Quantess]

8. I heard the Obama jab, too. That's why I am guessing she is a republican!

I think she wanted to like him. Great way to insult your base!

[mike dub]

54. I think the "as if Obama were here" comment...

was intended as, Rmoney's Secret Service detail and staffers were (it sounds like from what the cafe owner's saying) very restrictive, and indeed kept her in the back of the cafe, unable to meet the Shittster.
Also it sounded like restrooms were closed off/guests not allowed to use the bathrooms....

So maybe she means -- It was a Big Production ...as if the President were there. But having seen Obama's photo opps, it looks like he's laid back at all of them, relates to the owner of the joint, and any people there, and his detail doesn't seem to piss off the locals. Even Bu$h, in a clip from Fahrenheit 911, actually has his arm around the owner of a restaurant, saying: "I'd comment about (the war) that, but we really want to take someone's order! Stretch, what'll you have?!" Rmoney is just completely detached. Doesn't know basic human decorum or interaction.

The real killer is that he looked at the cafe's chocolate "pastry things" (yeah he didn't even know they were called chocolate doughnuts) and the MOST 1%'er/out of touch thing he said (to a worker in the cafe, I guess) was "Could you see to it that some of those chocolatey things get into our ride?", as if the cafe should load them into his vehicle for him-- as in, **Servant, see to it that the food is loaded in the car.**

At least Obama or Perry- maybe even Bu$h (although diddy didn't know what a bar code reader was in the grocery store) would have pulled out their wallet, ordered a couple chocolate doughnuts, asked to have them to-go, said thanks so much, photo opp with the owner, and left. Rmoney's just Totally Inept.

[mikeysnot]

9. "You would think it was Obama here"

What a stupid republican. That party has been shitting in her mouth for 30 years and she "thinks" she is one of them....

[freshwest]

11. +1

[DeSwiss]

26. +1

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.

- It's even more pronounced in those who likewise have a predisposition for ''other'' biases as well.....

[coalition_unwilling]

62. See also "Cognitive Dissonance':

Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment. The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements.[1] An example of this would be the conflict between wanting to smoke and knowing that smoking is unhealthy; a person may try to change their feelings about the odds that they will actually suffer the consequences, or they might add the consonant element that the smoking is worth short term benefits. A general view of cognitive dissonance is when one is biased towards a certain decision even though other factors favour an alternative.

The phrase was coined by Leon Festinger in his 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, which chronicled the followers of a UFO cult as reality clashed with their fervent belief in an impending apocalypse . . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

************************

Question: What Is Cognitive Dissonance?

Answer:

People tend to seek consistency in their beliefs and perceptions. So what happens when one of our beliefs conflicts with another previously held belief? The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs. When there is a discrepancy between beliefs and behaviors, something must change in order to eliminate or reduce the dissonance.

http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/f/dissonance.htm

[Bake]

32. Exactly.

She won't vote on our team, it seems, but maybe she'll just stay home and be pissed off on Election Day.

Bake

[mike dub]

55. Hope you're right, Bake...

hope there're a bunch of rethug 'stay homes' in November!

[Bake]

56. With any luck a lot of the fundies will decide they just can't vote for the Mormon ...

Bake

[gulliver]

33. That's one of the big selling points of the video.

This lady's contempt for Obama (goofy as it is) just helps make her a better messenger to working Republicans. There could be a big wave of them who want to see Romney hung out to dry. They have to figure that if Romney gets elected, they are going to get a whole bunch more Romneys lining up for office for the rest of their lives. And they don't like Romney.

[uponit7771]

38. +1!...lofl!!!

[drm604]

42. Someone should ask her for one example of Obama or his staff acting like that.

The woman's delusional.

[pnwmom]

10. Here's a link with many more details.

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/06/08/cafe-owners-disappointed-by-romney-treatment-but-still-dont-want-obama-back/

[freshwest]

12. Ugh! What a pair.

[KurtNYC]

34. Wow, it's like Extreme Peasant Diner Make-Over

Earl Bauer said over a 2 ½-day period, the advance team removed plastic checkered table cloths; some disappeared. And they removed half his wife’s doll collection from a shelf to make the backdrop look appealing for a presidential candidate, Earl Bauer said.

They kick them out, change stuff around for Prince Romney photo op and then let them back in after the make-over. Surprise!

[GodlessBiker]

13. Sounds like an episode of Veep.

[Blue Owl]

14. If you're not a corporation, Mitt won't treat you like a person

n/t

[Tripper11]

15. Their "hero" failed them

“I try to stay neutral, but I definitely don’t want Obama back,” the husband said.

yeah...right

[EFerrari]

16. I wonder if the RMoney campaign spit on them and set fire to their place

would they become Obama supporters?

[sadbear]

17. Fuck'em

You reap what you sow republicans.

[Curmudgeoness]

18. What shocks me is that I think

she will still vote for him in November.

[Botany]

19. Was this the place where Romney did not know what a donut was?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002799780

[Life Long Dem]

21. Saw this disrespect in Romney before.

Same thing when he told someone they bought the cookies from the 7 eleven.

[warrior1]

22. What has Obama got to do with this

He didn't fuck her over. Geez. Would look good in a campaign video.

[Life Long Dem]

23. I think she was trying to say

you would think a rock star was coming through, referring to Obama.

[rexcat]

24. It is obvious she supported Romney...

and the remark about Obama was over the top. She got what she deserved!

[Grassy Knoll]

27. LOL....

Account status: Posting privileges revoked
Member since: Wed Jun 13, 2012, 04:03 PM

[gulliver]

29. This is fantastic, and I really hope it goes viral.

Romney is not going to be good with the "little people." His true colors are showing here.

Romney personally (over the phone) offended this lady. This workaday, all American, small town cafe-running lady felt she was mocked.

"He (Romney) responded, 'Well I'm sorry that your tablecloth got ripped off, wadded up, and thrown in the back room,' and I took it as a mocking."

"We're the ones that are…he's wanting to get the votes from. You'd think we would have been treated a little bit better."

"With how he treated me, is that how he is going to treat others? You know, is he—if he gets in office—is he gonna be that way to us little people?"

Those quotes are priceless. I guess she's lucky Romney didn't have his staff tackle her so he could cut her hair.

[bigtree]

30. kick

[Initech]

37. The Least Interesting Man In The World On: Fine Dining

"Is your order wrong? Even the best chefs in the world know to remake something for you and not ask questions."

Stay boring my friends.

[lookingfortruth]

39. Amazing how Romney and his staff continue to make gaffe after gaffe. Wonder how many republican

votes he and his staff have lost.

[lpbk2713]

41. Not the first time I've heard about his boorish behaviour.

Seems like it was just last week I heard about another incident where Mittens and his
party were contemptible and ungracious guests. Well, at least they remain consistent.

[hifiguy]

43. Get over it lady. You are The Help.

And in WillardWorld The Help is there to serve the master and speak only when spoken to. Peons should know their place and STFU.

[JDPriestly]

46. In contrast, President Obama is personally very kind.

His military policies are not very kind, nor are his trade policies kind to American workers, but President Obama is very, very kind.

[magnifisense]

47. I saw a picture posted on here that read "Mitt is mean to dogs."

If someone could create one that reads "Mitt is mean to workers."

(It was from DogsAgainstRomney.)

[madrchsod]

52. google reviews of the cafe...opps! someone did`t wash thier hands

https://plus.google.com/108785649190981248694/about?gl=US&hl=en-US


so lady those black people do`t have no manners now do they?

[magnifisense]

53. I found Dogs Against Romney. Question for those with Photoshop skills, which I lack.

If someone could create a "Workers Against Romney" that would be great.

[Octafish]

57. She's lucky she didn't get her hair cut off.

Or, worse yet, get pulled over by a phony cop on the way home in the dark.

Ha ha. Who, besides a nutjob, would do that?

[magnifisense]

64. Romney Scissorhands!

[Octafish]

66. THAT's the guy!

What a cut-up!



Most importantly: A hearty welcome to DU, magnifisense! Thank you for the file photo!

[Zoeisright]

58. Not surprising, since all repukes are spoiled little brats.

They think they're above the law and everyone else. And they're wrong.