Romney mocked for airplane remark

[trailmonkee]

Last edited Mon Sep 24, 2012, 09:18 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Politico



At a California fundraiser over the weekend, the GOP presidential nominee talked about how his wife’s plane’s emergency landing Friday in Denver after the cabin filled with smoke — and then he made an eyebrow-raising suggestion for a new airplane feature.

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” he said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”
As bloggers at Gawker, Wonkette and Daily Kos pointed out — not without snark — there are sound scientific reasons for having sealed windows on airplanes.

That, in turn, led to quips on Twitter, where the hashtag #RomneyPlaneFeatures was trending Monday afternoon:




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[KurtNYC]

1. Romney was joking...

right?

[OrwellwasRight]

3. I don't think so, unless

maybe he was joking about the 46% too!

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Romney is a joke....

right?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. At least that one is right.

[trailmonkee]

6. if he was, he is a genius of comic deadpan delivery...

'hey I was just kidding about stealing from the poor and middle-class... really'

[Incitatus]

7. No

No one with such a limited knowledge of science should have anything to do with energy and environmental policy.

[pnwmom]

24. All the Rethugs on the Science and Tech committees are idiots.

It seems to be a requirement.

[tclambert]

30. All the math and science you need to know is in the Holy Bible!

For instance, it says right in there that the value of pi is 3.0 even.

2 Chronicles 4:2 "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it."

And don't forget Genesis chapter 2 says (verse 18) "And the LORD God said , It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. (19) And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air."

So you see, men came before animals, so evolution couldn't have happened the way those "scientists" claim.

[whistler162]

9. If he was he needs better joke writers....

[sakabatou]

15. If he was, he'd one of the biggest political trolls I know

[valerief]

25. Nope. He's THAT dumb. nt

[Wait Wut]

31. If he was joking...

...he was joking about the possible slow, painful death of his wife. ha...ha...ha???

[M_M]

33. Kneeslapper!

That "strapping the dog to the roof" thing is getting easier to understand.

[KurtNYC]

41. YES -- it was a joke

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/mitt-romney-joke-joking-airplane-windows.html

[OrwellwasRight]

2. I understand how such a seemingly stupid remark might be the first thing that pops into your head

but that's sort of the point of being a reasoned, thoughtful person: you don't always say the first thing that pops into your head. And certainly, you don't say it to the press. Most especially if you are running for President.

Jackass. He deserves the ridicule.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

5. God forbid. Romney is making Sarah Palin look smart.

Window screens on airplanes?

Cold Fusion discovered at U of Utah? To conduct electricity?

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Cha]

18. Palin knows why airplane windows

don't open, right?

[underpants]

29. (Polish joke)

Did you hear about the screendoors on Polish submarines?

It's to keep the fish out.

[lonestarnot]

34. Wow.

You didn't forget Poland!

[lexw]

8. At this point I think

people and the press are flocking around him to hear more from his foot-in-the-mouth syndrome.

[Permanut]

10. Makes sense to me..

They should put screen doors in submarines, too, to keep the bugs out. I'm saying this as a Navy veteran, although I've never been on a sub.

[Semi_subversive]

16. I served on a nuclear fast attack sub 1972-75

A screen door definitely would have been problematic.

[KoKo]

11. Maybe it was his very feeble attempt at "Snark"... He's seeming pretty unhinged

as he goes along. I'm waiting for him to fall on his face at the Debates. Trip over a cable or something..

He reminds me of Bush II....but, without the seemingly clueless humor that Chimpy proviided to us. This guy is just plain scary as he bumbles through this campaign.

[liberal N proud]

12. That will be their explanation tomorrow.

But you know with his history, I wouldn't believe it.

[Faygo Kid]

13. At least the trees are the right height.

At least in Michigan.

[rug]

14. If he's elected there will be a screen door on every submarine.

[NYC Liberal]

19. Even IF you could open the windows and not be sucked right out...

how would that help with the problem of "there’s no place to go"?? What are you going to do, jump out at 35,000 feet?

[lonestarnot]

36. I think he's getting acrophobia with that no place to go. 9/11 victims had no place to go either

mittwitt and your party, although forewarned of eminent attack on U.S. did nothing to advance any defense whatsoever to stop it. "Watch this drive." Hey mittwitt, watch this drive damn it!

[PatrynXX]

20. Think watching Goldfinger might help him understand. :P

What happened to Goldfinger.. Singing his golden harp..

[IggleDoer]

23. That film was put out by the Hollywood elite in 1964...

... just to make RMOney look bad in 2012.

[KamaAina]

21. In other news, a box of hammers has entered the 2016 Republican primaries.

[trailmonkee]

22. .

[Ash_F]

26. I have a co-worker who supports Romney because he thinks he's "smarter"

Because he is a wealthy executive, he must have got there by being really smart right?

[muntrv]

27. Mitt, why don't you test this new feature the next time you fly your airplane?

[Unca Wiggilie]

28. Willard was not joking!

He has just shown that he knows as much about airplanes as he knows
about foreign relations, history, people, or running government...

[qanda]

32. How is my 14 year old daughter smarter than the man who wants to be President?

Scary....

[Brigid]

38. My six-year-old nephew is smarter than Mitty.

And he knows how to play well with others, which is more than Mitty can say.

[OnionPatch]

35. I have to assume

That he just meant there should be a way to vent the air out quickly.

It's not like there isn't enough evidence to see what an idiot he is.

[sarcasmo]

37. Thurston was so worried about Lovie he kept spouting hot air.

[dflprincess]

39. I'm beginning to think that Willard was deprived of oxygen for too long at some point in his life

I gather he's also never paid attention to the flight attendants when they demonstrate putting those unfashionable yellow cups over one's mouth and nose....But I'll bet they wouldn't have to tell him twice to get his own mask on before assisting anyone around him.

[LittleRock]

40. mittens would call them stewardesses

I doubt he's never flown commercial.

[wordpix]

43. is he really THIS stoopid???? geesh...

A middle schooler could tell him why we don't open windows on planes.