Mark my words: it was "The Help"

[XemaSab]

The video appears to have been shot from behind a water canteen, and at the beginning of the video a man who is dressed like a servant can be heard drawing water. One of the donors would have had a hard time getting to that area, and one of the servants would have noticed the camera.

It was probably some dude making $8 an hour fetching water for some jerk who is worth billions.

(This episode of "The Crystal Ball" was brought to you by XemaSab.)

[valerief]

1. Good job.

[NightWatcher]

2. remember Fight Club.... "we cook your meals, we haul your trash....

....we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us"


-your welcome

[XemaSab]

3. Yup

[nc4bo]

4. Bless him! Note to the elite who would eat the 99% for breakfast....

"The help" is also part of the people you look down upon and most certainly don't appreciate your disdain.

Lucky they didn't spit in your food or serve you a Terrible, Awful Chocolate Pie.

[XemaSab]

5. Who says they didn't?

[nc4bo]

6. oh lawdy XemaSab LOL - poor guy/gal. I hope no one can connect this person to this.

I'm so impressed that this got out, can't you tell?!!

ETA: I can't imagine having to work for people or have to serve people who talk/act like this. Hopefully they/he/she was well compensated.

[Brigid]

11. It will probably be very difficult to trace.

The person was probably from some catering service and assigned to work that party.

[backscatter712]

8. Don't you love the rules rich snoots impose on the help?

Go in through the back entrance, remain silent, don't you dare look your masters in the eye, and don't speak unless you're spoken to!

[nc4bo]

9. Not one of them = subhuman.

Makes me sick.

[XemaSab]

12. Yup

n/t

[madaboutharry]

7. It does seem like that.

I think so too. I wouldn't be surprised if this came from someone in the wait staff.

[Brigid]

10. I'm sure you're right.

And that person got more than he/she ever dreamed of.

[flamingdem]

13. I noticed the oversize goblet on the right, tip jar?

And that the waiter doesn't bother about blocking his view for a while.

Even if he made a bundle he is my hero and I hope someday we can hear the story.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

16. A tip jar in a room full of millionaires is merely a jar. nt

[flamingdem]

24. ha ha that's true, he's lucky if he got minimum wage! n/t

[greyl]

14. I believe it's the young lady with long dark hair and glasses.

She passes in front of the camera, the camera is adjusted, she comes back around.

edit: Plus, the first 2 YouTube accounts where the video was posted were under fake female names.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. No. It's not a woman.

If you watch the whole tape it's obvious who it is.

I only say this because I'm sure all the people at the center
of it have to know already who it is. If you watch the whole
tape carefully, and, especially, say, if you lived in the house
or had anything to do with the staff and whose station was whose,
you already know who it is.

Also, I think a lot of people looked at the tape (at Mother Jones)
before they added back in the part that had been inadvertently
cut out at the very beginning of the first tape, where the guy
is actually first setting up the camera as Romney begins speaking.

But that's not where the obviousness arises.

In the first half of the tape the guy looks right at the camera, checking it
as he passes. In the second half he picks up the decanter, pours at the
table, comes back to his station behind or to the side of the table
the camera is on. Also, he adjusts the camera numerous times in each half.

[B Calm]

17. Bravery behind enemy lines!

I like to see more servants put these rich bastards in their place!

[CreekDog]

18. My suspicion was Romney spoke as if the help wasn't there

he surely knew they were but he was speaking as if they couldn't hear nor understand what was being said.

that's something that bothers me about him, in addition to the crapload of bad policy he's proposing.

[XemaSab]

19. He just wasn't talking to them

Literally or metaphorically.

How much you want to bet most of them are in the 47%?

(And don't say $10,000. )

[Care Acutely]

22. Something about (relatively) intelligent conservatives

they always assume that
1) everyone else is stupid and
2) the poor are way too stupid to affect any kind of justice upon them.

F*wads like Romney just *know* that - - - until they don't

[marions ghost]

29. Yes

They REALLY DO believe this.

[joeybee12]

20. I thought I read it was someone working for the caterer...nt

[pinboy3niner]

25. You may be thinking of bleever's humorous riff on a defunct TV sitcom

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021370435

[Quantess]

21. OBVIOUSLY.

Thank you for pointing out the obvious. Sorry, that sounds rude of me, but it was not even a question for me when I saw the video.

That also explains why the undercover video had a delay getting traction on youtube. It took a while for anyone in the media to notice. That's because it was shot by a random amateur Democrat working a catering gig. It could have even been a DUer!

[kentuck]

23. Did you notice the "help" would pick up the coffee server....

and make an effort not to get in front of the camera? I think more than one person knew about the camera?

[Hoyt]

26. Whoever our "secret server(s)" is -- GOOD JOB for exposing the worthless f#@ckers for what they are.

Not that it wasn't common knowledge before, but sometimes you just gotta provide the truth.

A new nominee for Mount Rushmore.

[Surya Gayatri]

27. Revenge of the "swarthy people", as Colbert called them

in his "elegant" parody version of Mitt's talk.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419186/september-18-2012/mitt-romney-s-secret-video?xrs=share_copy

[Hutzpa]

28. Does it really matter?

[Gin]

30. The sound on that video was good

If it was a phone.....it did a good job....picture quality was good too....I wondered if the camera was in some obscure item.....like spy shops sell.....wouldnt a camera be obvious?