Rmoney being booed live on GEM$NBComcast - video added

[malaise]

by NAACP folks

[qanda]

1. I'm cracking up

It was a long boo!

[malaise]

3. It was sweet as...........!

The look on his face was delish! He seemed shocked i tell yah!

Don't fugg with Obamacare Rmoney!!

What a flop! This is a disaster.

[RZM]

2. I knew that was coming

I thought there was a small chance he'd be greeted with cold silence. But I thought it was more likely he'd get some boos.

This was probably anticipated by the campaign.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. hey, four people clapped!

[malaise]

6. He's looking for some more

boos

[malaise]

8. He clearly didn't anticipate that booing

[RZM]

19. Not watching so I didn't see his reaction

I think he and most elite conservatives really do think they are better for the black community.

The question is, do they think they have any chance of convincing people of that? That's where there is probably a divide among conservative strategists. Many of the clear-headed ones would say no, while some of the less realistic ones might say yes.

The thing is, the candidates themselves are often so ego-driven, that they believe that they will be the ones to buck tradition and history and completely transform the game, because they are just that awesome. I imagine part of a strategists' job is to find a polite way to manage this kind of thing so it doesn't make the candidate look truly ridiculous.

[jberryhill]

45. Oh, really?

Everyone else did....

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/romney-says-he-expected-to-be-booed-at-naacp/story?id=16753886#.T_3gAZHNkYI

Avis Jones-DeWeever, the executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, said Romney had accomplished a "calculated political ploy" by signaling to conservatives that he's willing to tell backers of the health law that he wants to cut it.

"That was like a victory lap on Fox News," she said. "That was exactly what he went there intending to do."

Critics in Obama's camp charged immediately after the speech that Romney planned to be booed in an effort to charge up Republican voters.

"I believe he included that part of the speech intentionally," Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said. "And I think the audience responded appropriately."

Reed, on a conference call organized by the Democratic National Committee after Romney's speech, accused Romney of staging a "political stunt" that was aimed more at Republicans who weren't in the room.

"He wasn't speaking to the NAACP audience at all," Reed said. "To his base it will make him look strong, but he never stands up to anybody else."

[Arkansas Granny]

48. He knew exactly what he was doing.

He knew the audience and he anticipated the reaction he got. Definitely scripted.

[Orlandodem]

5. That was classic. And he refuses to use the word "capitalism". He only says "free markets".

nt

[maddezmom]

7. 'twas a thing of beauty

[FSogol]

9. Will he sing "Who left the Dogs Out?"

[spartan61]

10. Keep it up NAACP! You're doing great with the boos.

Even when there is applause, it's very weak. Love it!!!!

[madaboutharry]

11. That boo is the nightly news.

He may as well go home.

[malaise]

16. it's probably on You Tube already

[jberryhill]

20. And will further solidify the white racist vote Mitt is courting

He's not addressing the NAACP to get the votes of the NAACP attendees.

He's getting the reaction from the NAACP which his campaign would prefer to get, in order to prove that "African Americans are only voting on race" ergo "White people should vote for Mitt to balance that out".

[wandy]

37. You just nailed it. This was exactly the expected/desired responce..........

Proof positive that Obama's support centers around race, and government handouts.
Rove can have a field day with it, striking fear and hatred in Teabag land about how you people are paying for all this "Free Stuff'.
Yes note the 'I don't give a dam' look on romney's face.
And why should he, after all those folk don't live in the Hamptions.

[coalition_unwilling]

52. That SOB actually smiled when they booed his skanky ass. I am

speechless with rage.

[siligut]

46. Rev. Al Sharpton agrees with you

Romney was talking to his base with that statement.

[tallahasseedem]

12. Details please!

I can't wait to see the clips!

[malaise]

14. He was telling them that he was going to get rid of Obamacare

and there came a tsunami of boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos!

[GarroHorus]

13. This should shore up his support amongst the racist base of the GOP

Probably what they wanted from this appearance any way.

[jberryhill]

22. YES!

I don't think many people understand the actual point here.

His campaign WANTS to elicit an active negative reaction from the NAACP audience, and the crowd is giving Mitt's campaign precisely what they want.

[malaise]

26. So African Americans must put up with RW shite to please

others. They must pretend they agree with Rmoney getting rid of Obamacare which is the same as his Mass healthcare system. I'm glad they booed his hypocritical lying ass.

[jberryhill]

31. No, that's not what I said

He's getting the reaction his campaign wanted. Period.

[BumRushDaShow]

42. And the idiot masses who would react

are not voting for him anyway. And any so-called "independent" who might not think that I am a "person" and couldn't give a shit about my concern for improvements to healthcare because "<I'm> going to die anywhere because all black people are poor, monkey criminals who are either in jail or belong in jail", then fuck them too.

It's ironic that certain apparent "non-people" are paternalistically told NOT to express disgust with a RW hack running for President whereas others on DU flame away 24/7 bashing the current Democratic administration's policies right along with the right-wing lunatics from Free Republic.

[jberryhill]

43. I'm going to try this one more time....

"certain apparent "non-people" are paternalistically told NOT to express disgust"

Nobody - NOBODY - said that.

Romney has to compete with third party and stay-at-home racist white voters. No, those voters wouldn't vote for Obama in the first place, but that does NOT mean they will vote, and it does NOT mean they will vote for Romney. A lot of third parties are going to nominate Ron Paul as their candidate and suck some of that white racist vote off.

Romney also has to do damage control with reactionary voters who are put off by his religion and by the offshore money thing. Romney needs to be seen by these reactionary voters as another "victim of black racism" in order to motivate that vote to (a) get out, and (b) vote for him.

It is WHY he is speaking to the NAACP. That Romney would get a cold reception there is, of course, a given. He was, at all relevant times, an ordained official of a church which didn't let African Americans in until 1978.

What I am saying is that Romney went there IN ORDER to get a negative reaction. That he got one is no surprise, and no fault of the audience.

[jberryhill]

47. Update to my response to this

Al Sharpton also believes the point WAS to get booed to shore up his own base.

[malaise]

49. Yes I saw that

Fugg Willard Rmoney

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I just heard about that on AP radio News!!!!!

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

I heard a clip where he mumbled - "I like this kind of music." when someone was playing the organ. Then I heard that when he said that he wants to repeal the ACA, they were booing!!!

GOOD.

[malaise]

17. it's the prime time news clip

across America today

he's really fugging boring.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. His comment about the organ music was EXACTLY like

how he talked about liking Michigan because "the trees are all the right height".

[Gold Metal Flake]

18. Booing makes our side look bad!

</concern troll>

[jberryhill]

25. It's not that it makes anyone look "bad"

But it rides on the below-the-radar emails distributed by RW types to the effect that white people need to make sure that those brown people don't "steal this election the way ACORN did last time".

He's getting the reaction his campaign wanted.

I mean really, what was the expectation here?

[Gold Metal Flake]

35. Nicely done.

I bow to the master.

[maryellen99]

39. The only black people tea baggers like are the ones that will suck up to then

Such as Herman Cain,Allan West, Michael Steele, and Ron Christie.

[Initech]

21. "Are they booing or.saying boo-urns?"

Watch - tomorrow Fox News will claim they're saying boo-urns.

[maddezmom]

23. CNN is replaying the booing

[malaise]

27. GEM$NBComcast just replayed it as well

Headline - Romney booed when talking about Health Care
By the way he repeated the Chamber of Commerce unscientific survey.

[spanone]

24. watch as the liberal media calls him brave, courageous for talking to folks of color

[Jamaal510]

44. Yup that's exactly what they did on MSNBC.

Even Prof. Dyson said that his speech was good and that it was smart for him to show up.

[WI_DEM]

28. it depends on what they are booing--are they booing him on introduction or booing

him for saying something stupid in his speech against teachers or public workers, etc? If it's that then I think that is appropriate. If he is being booed just for appearing then that doesn't look good for our side.

[malaise]

29. They booed him over Obamacare

It was completely appropriate

[BeyondGeography]

30. Said he would repeal Obamacare

Tried to slip it by them, too.

"Will eliminate all wasteful programs, that includes Obamacare..."

Before he could continue, he got his ass booed.

Perfectly appropriate.

[siligut]

32. Romney just doesn't have any sense

He is so used to adulation, he thinks he can say anything. He says what sounds like he understands some of what AAs deal with, but he says it with a palpable sense of superiority. And then saying he will repeal Obamacare? Does he really think that just because people have money that they don't care about other people? What an old fool.

[hatrack]

33. Mission Accomplished!

He made the obligatory visit to the NAACP, and now he has video of himself being booed by those angry black people (the nerve!) with which he can shore up his Tea Party support.

[johnnie]

34. I think you are correct

The smile while they were booing seemed like he was pleased with the results.

[AsahinaKimi]

36. Do you think he has figured out yet...

That he is not well liked?

[wandy]

40. I don't think he needs to figure it out........

He is liked well enough amoung the moneyed and powered.
He is also doing well amoung the bigoted and uninformed.
If things work out according to the republican plan....
1 Dollar = 1 Vote
That's all romney needs.

[AsahinaKimi]

41. Sounds like we need

Another Obama Country-wide Tsunami ...to wipe this Republican out.

[spanone]

50. k&r...

[Number23]

51. Love it. You know, this was one the top stories even here in Australia

"The boo heard 'round the world..."