Romney did a version of blackface in front of a Hispanic audience and the nation last night.

[Skidmore]

Craven and cynical. Insulting to the max. Bigoted. AND by no means can he convince the Hispanic population that he is Hispanic by virtue of the fact that his scofflaw grandfather took himself to Mexico for a period of time so he could practice polygamy. Romney apparently has decided that he can successfully peddle the notion that he is the son of a Mexican citizen and by extension is Mexican himself.

This man makes me physically ill.

[hlthe2b]

1. ah, how it takes me back.... Aye, Yi, Yi, Yi, I am the Frito Bandito! (LOL)

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(while most baby boomers will remember this ad campaign, I think it was pulled rather quickly for being so obviously offensive. One can only hope Mitt experiences the same fate)

Aye, Yi, Yi, Yi,

I am the Frito Bandito


I love Fritos cornchips, I love them I do.

I love Fritos cornchips, I steel dem from you.



Aye, Yi, Yi, Yi,

I am the Frito Bandito

Give me Fritos cornchips, and I'll be your frend

The Frito Bandito you mus not offend

h/t to http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Remember-Silly-Songs-Of-My-Childhood/728358 (with an intentional edit of the phonetic spelling for corn chips for the poster down stream)

[geckosfeet]

3. cornships? I am pretty sure it was cornchips.

[hlthe2b]

4. Well OF COURSE, it was...

I edited for you, nonetheless, since you don't seem to get what the source was trying to recreate with the phonetic representation.

[geckosfeet]

8. In that case, I think that a more accurate "phonetic representation" would have been

"corncheeps".

[hlthe2b]

11. probably, but it wasn't mine... I remember the bit, but not all the lines

[yardwork]

32. The jingle sounded like "cornships" iirc, not "corn cheeps."

The singer didn't have a real Hispanic accent. It was a fake "Hispanic" accent that was wrong in many ways. The whole thing was wrong in many ways.

Now I have that jingle stuck in my head!

[backscatter712]

52. IIRC, Mel Blanc was the voice of the Frito Bandito. n/t

[yardwork]

54. That would make sense. He did so many voices.

[backscatter712]

58. Notice how Frito Bandito sounds almost identical to Speedy Gonzales? n/t

[marble falls]

16. You forgot this lyric: "....if you don't give me Fritos, I will take them from you ....."

Yup. I mean "Si", sounds like the Mitto Bandito to me.

[Luminous Animal]

21. FYI, it wasn't pullled quickly. It ran for years.

[DonRedwood]

43. here is a link to the commercial

Oddly enough, I too remember the entire song, and will probably have it bouncing in my head for the next month now. But, for my generation, singing along to this when I was 4 and 5, it never seemed negative. My dad liked Fritos so I thought Fritos and the Frito Bandito were awesome.

So, despite the racist nature of the cartoon, it could be possible that there are people who were left with positive feelings for our neighbors to the south because of it.

Now I think I need to go find the good and plenty commercial to get the frito Bandito out of my head!

&feature=player_detailpage

[flamingdem]

45. I know them by heart still also, my favorites! n/t

[DonRedwood]

49. i have a coworker "charlie" and everytime I hear his name i think the jingle goes through my head

[flamingdem]

51. I need to find the original Frito Bandito

This one was more PC, probably why it ran longer.

[cpwm17]

59. The Frito Bandito commercial ran into the early 70's

I remember because it was still running when we got a TV around that time, and I then dressed as the Frito Bandito for Halloween.

[Philosoraptor]

2. Truly sickening, and desperate

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. hashtag #fakebake

[irisblue]

31. i noticed that too

i saw the tape and thought the color on my tv was off again, did a quick diagnostic check, (nope settings the same) then it occured to me.....the make up artist is another 47% like me....'splains that

[hobbit709]

6. What do you expect from a pendejo?

[sendero]

7. Exactly..

..... Romney is the perfect embodiment of a pinche pendejo

[secondwind]

14. twice over.

[Renew Deal]

9. I read the subject if your post and thought this was hyperbole, so I skipped it.

Turns out you were right on. There is nothing this maniac won't try to get elected. Even having someone bomb a country in the middle east. I wonder what he's going to do now that he's desperate.

[LynneSin]

10. Romney's Mexico comment is about as LAME as Palin claiming she can see Russia from her window.

Palim 'claimed' her foreign policy expertise was because she could 'See Russia from my window' simply because hundreds of miles from where she lived a remote part of Alaska shares a maritime border with a remote part of Russia.

So really, we're suppose to believe that Romney has some sort of connection to the Hispanic community because this very white family opted to escape USA polygamy laws and live in a remote compound on Mexican soil?

[VWolf]

12. Doesn't sound like Rmoney's one of those

"real Americans" that Palin always talks about. His father's Mexican, after all.

I WANNA SEE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!



Seriously, I'd settle for his tax returns.
You hear me, Mitt? Tax returns!!!!

[tavalon]

13. I've been meaning to post an op about brownface being the Hispanic version

of blackface. You got almost all of it, but you missed one word. Yes, it was craven, cynical, insulting and bigoted.

But, let us not forget that it was mostly racist (implied, I know, by bigoted).

Racist.

Racist.

Racist.

[marble falls]

19. Exactly right. In capitol letters, RACIST. He only 'claimed' being Latino because he knows he isn't.

[Marrah_G]

15. LOL yeah THAT will gain him votes.......

[AzDar]

17. Omg. I saw this, out the corner of my eye, on one of the MSNBC shows last night...

and wondered what the hell he had done to his face. Now that I see the context...

[renie408]

18. Me too.

This was completely astonishing to me.

I just can't get over it.


This is the story that needs to be all over Facebook. This is graphic and doesn't require anybody to THINK. They just have to be able to SEE.

[IMG][/IMG]

[SunsetDreams]

24. OMG Is that shit real?

I missed this story! OMFG! I am so pissed!

[jsr]

27. The normal looking Romney:

[liberalmuse]

28. Someone needs to caption Panderboy.

I'm not clever enough. Something to the effect of: This is Romney on white voters/This is Romney on Latino Voters. (but funnier)

[sarge43]

34. I've seen better makeup jobs in a high school play.

WTH is advising this creep?

[Arugula Latte]

39. Next he's going to go after the senior vote by putting flour in his hair.

[sarge43]

41. The descending adjective game

I'm unaware; you're clueless; he's Mitt Romney.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

60. LOL.

[SweetieD]

37. He is a psycopath.

[agentS]

40. Hahaha! They forgot to tan his hands and his ears!

[KamaAina]

50. But Obama won't forget to tan his hide!

[formercia]

20. Mitt the Twitt

....a gift that keeps on giving.

Brownface....

That is so precious.

[Patiod]

22. In fairness to John Boehner

At least Boehner does the fakebake all the time, not just for Univision....

[sarge43]

23. Wow, just wow.

By November there won't be a pile of shit in the time/space contin that he hasn't step in.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

57. OK you made me LULZ.

[sarge43]

64. Why thank you.

As you said down thread, teh stupid is truly stunning.

It's like watching the Hindenburg crash into the Titanic in Pearl Harbor bay at five to eight on 7 Dec 41. You stand there in open mouth disbelief, thinking "It just can't get any worse", then you hear the planes.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

65. HAHAH!! Really!! Why.............

Thank You, mittster!

[sarge43]

66. Mitt Romney vs. his presidential campaign

[Lucy Goosey]

25. I couldn't quite believe it

My boyfriend said "nice tan, Mittens" while we were watching MSNBC last night, and I started to make a crack about taking beauty advice from Boehner, but before I was done, boyfriend and I were looking at each other wide-eyed. The lightbulb had gone off. "Nice tan, Mittens, that you apparently got for the express purpose of convincing brown people to vote for you." I don't even know what to think - does Mitt think his "vote for me, I'm practically Mexican" schtick is going to work? If so, it can only be because he thinks that Latino voters are monolithically stupid. Un-fucking-believable.

[Indpndnt]

61. ESPECIALLY after that video that showed him wishing his parents "had been Latino."

Did he not think folks would put those two things together?! We JUST saw that video and the very next day he's turning his skin orange to go on Univision.

[liberalmuse]

26. Well, looks like the more reliable hub of the media picked this up.

So I was wrong. Nothing is too embarrassing to print - well, at least for the gossip mags, LOL. And I swear I saw these pictures on DU first:

http://gossiponthis.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-fake-tanner-make-himself-browner-appeal-latino-voters/

[Skidmore]

30. Needs to go viral before the MSM will give it a bit of notice.

Needs tweets and social media exposure before the talking heads will consider it newsworthy.

[central scrutinizer]

38. best line from the link; "he's not winning any brownie points..." LOL

I never thought I would see someone out-fail the Klondike Kardashian, but dayum!

[freedom fighter jh]

29. Can't be easy to peddle the notion that Romney is the son of a Mexican citizen.

George Romney, though born in Mexico, ran for president of the United States. Gotta be born into U.S. citizenship to do that.

[Qutzupalotl]

33. From the fundraiser tape: "It would be easier if I were Latino."

So now he is. Great.

[Blue Owl]

35. Can't wait to hear what Estephan Colberto has to say about this...

n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. Darker than the toast I had this morning

Mitt looking toastier and toastier every day.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

42. OK, I am going to hell for defending this but --

I suspect he used the station make-up artist instead of his own hair/make-up crew. For TV appearances make-up is ALWAYS many shades darker than the natural skin color to counter washout from the uber bright studio lights. His hands are done, too, which is something generally only done by an experienced make-up artist. In the Univision Universe, the "healthy tan" is the esthetic norm so I am sure it would be used for him as well. The only thing I am surprised by is how blotchy it is -- there must have been something going on with his skin texture. I say this as someone who did make-up in the film/video industry for many years.

With that said, I think he looks ridiculous.

[csziggy]

46. Why are his EARS pink?

Wouldn't a professional make up artist make sure that detail is covered? How about the line on his neck and the one at his hairline?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

48. Yes, that is not my personal make-up preference --

but many others will still do it -- doing the neckline (especially in such a deep color) can badly rub off into the shirt collar and show up on camera as nasty "ring around the collar". It's a judgement call.

[Indpndnt]

62. Except he came off his plane looking like that.

And he was at a rally looking even more two-toned. He actually looked better on Univision, as odd as that sounds. He had fewer 'tan' lines.

[DemKittyNC]

44. hahaha

I actually joked on here before about Mitt putting on blackface, then hanging gold chains around his neck (BLING) and start greeting everyone with the phrase "Wut Up Homey? R-Dogg N Tha IzHouse!" in order to get the African/American vote. I didn't think he would actually read my post on here and take it seriously.

Since he apparently does and stole some of my idea I have a new one for him...

Dress up in a rainbow colored ball gown with some really pretty sparkling high heels and this time leave the black(TAN)face off but instead apply a generous amount of lipstick and mascara/eyeshadow then do your little 'Look, I am the President too' speeches while replacing that flicking lizard tongue you normally do that freaks people out with a sassy but sexy little lisp.

That will sure pull in the Gay/Lesbian & Transgender vote for sure!

[kiranon]

47. Which Republican will be first to say - It was just a joke?

Am astonished at the bigotry/racism of this man.

[hifiguy]

53. I am convinced that Willard would "pull a Divine"

if he thought there were ten votes in it for him.

To "pull a Divine" is to do what Divine did at the end of John Waters' classic (but not for the queasy or sensitive) Pink Flamingos when he ate a dog turd fresh from the canine on-camera. Yes, it was real.

[cr8tvlde]

55. To be fair, he was only "half-baked".

I think this is generous ... do not ever forget the black-face/joker meme these traitors conjured up.

half-baked (hfbkt, häf-)
adj.
1. Only partly baked.
2. Informal Insufficiently thought out; ill-conceived: a half-baked scheme.
3. Informal Exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense: a half-baked visionary.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


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half-baked
adj
1. (Cookery) insufficiently baked
2. Informal foolish; stupid
3. Informal poorly planned or conceived

[BlancheSplanchnik]

56. truly unbelievable.....

Just leaves you speechless....... truly unable to process thought, or form words......

The Clown Factor, or the Spewdiation Quotient; hmmmmm, which is the worst?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

63. His son has been doing this for weeks.

He also has excellent skills speaking Spanish and is used
Regularly before Hispanic groups.