On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland. As he was exiting, several reporters shouted at him, asking if he had any comments on his recent gaffes. How shouting stupid questions at a freaking cemetery isn’t a gaffe is beyond me, but whatever.
Romney’s traveling press secretary Rick Gorka initially responded by telling the reporters to “show some respect,” because obviously their mamas hadn’t taught them. Someone shouted, “We haven’t had another chance to ask a question ...” To which Gorka responded, "Kiss my ass. This is a Holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect."
Side note: As several people mentioned on Twitter after this incident, the Obama camp doesn’t have to tell the press to kiss his ass, because they’re already doing it.
CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post all broke the peaceful reverence at the war memorial to honor the Polish people that have given their lives for their country by shouting at Mitt Romney and insisting that he hadn’t “taken but three questions this trip from the press.” Never mind the fact that the candidate had answered over a hundred questions during his tour in interviews with Greta Van Susteren, Brian Williams, Piers Morgan, and Wolf Blitzer. We’ll just pretend that never happened so we can justify the appalling behavior shown by the partisan hack media at a sacred place.
These guys screamed at Mitt Romney, disturbed the peace, and generally made asses of themselves, yet we’re supposed to believe that it was Rick Gorka who was out of line telling them to kiss his ass? People get frustrated. They snap at people asking stupid questions. Sometimes I want to snap at my kids to “kiss my ass” when they ask for the eight-zillionth time when dinner is. I’m not going to let you starve, children.
Anyway, let’s skip back to the stupid questions. The press wanted to know if Governor Romney were concerned with the gaffes or mishaps on his trip. What gaffes or mishaps? He signed the date wrong by one day? Geez, Obama has trouble with dates too, only he’s not off by a day, he’s off by three years.
What else? Romney insulted the Palestinians? Tell you what, Palestine ... you stop making kindergartners roll play murdering Israelis, and then you can whine about how insulted you are when someone comments on the fact that Israel has a much higher GDP than you. No one will listen, but you can go ahead and whine.
The Olympics thing? Is that the gaffe the reporters wanted a comment on? The incident when Romney said he was “disconcerted” about the 2012 London games? Hi, “disconcerted” is polite for “WTF, London?” Seriously. Most cluster-you-know-what games ever. Between the security issues, the incomplete buildings, the inability to get athletes to their training events due to a 32-mile traffic jam, the ponchos ... yeah, I think “disconcerted” was being kind. These Olympics are so bad, that they can’t even get anyone to attend them.
So Rick Gorka told the shouty, lying, partisan press to kiss his ass. Can you blame him?
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The Palestinians said something nasty about him? I am shocked that there is gambling in this establishment! Shocked I say!
Did anyone notice the total news blackout of his meeting with Lech Walesa? Guess they couldn't find a way to spin that...
But don't forget, just keep repeating the "You didn't build that" quote is somehow "out of context" over and over and over again and see if you can convince yourself to believe it.
Romney wasn't invited to give advice to another country about their Olympics. He was invited there as a guest, because of his previous Olympic ties. Romney's insults to London were akin to you having someone over for dinner who insults your taste in decorating, brags that he has a bigger backyard and tells you your cooking is subpar. I think the Brits made it infinitely clear that he is not invited for dinner again. ("Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!" x 60,000 people) #RomneyShambles
As for the Poland incident, how is shouting "KISS MY ASS" at a holy site being respectful?
Yeah, I'm not sure why he even bothered adding "show some respect" at the end of that sentence.
The aide shouldn't have retaliated with "kiss my ass". Yes, the press was wrong to heckle him, but two wrongs don't make a right. As for the Israel culture vs. Palestinian culture comment, Romney was absolutely right. Israeli culture IS better than Palestinian culture. I know I'll get ripped apart by the brainwashed politically correct masses, but I don't care. Israel doesn't teach their toddlers to murder innocent people. Israel has turned their corner of barren desert into a prosperous paradise, while Hamas continues to oppress and kill in Palestinian territories. Israel has free press and speech. Palestine censors news that puts Palestinians in a bad light. These gaffes speak for themselves.
At least Romney, in sharp contrast to you, was talking about a topic on which he had some knowledge.
Hypocrisy is one of the Five Pillars of Liberalism.
So Gorka didnt think it was disrespectful to say kiss my ass at the tomb? He also didnt think it was disrespectful to tell people how to act in their own country? The difference between reporters, and Romney and his Aide is, one is running for President, the others are not.
@fleurdelys, you're confusing palestinian "culture" with palestinian "gov't". Thats like saying Assad represents Syrian culture and everything they stand for.
Boy, am I ever sick of arguing over nothing. Who honestly cares about this stuff? Who cares about who paid how much in taxes? They were paid weren't they? Who cares where someone was born? How can that matter? These things mean NOTHING. The PAST means nothing. NOTHING! They've both messed up in the past. WHO CARES??
I want to know who's going to help our country get back on it's feet and help our economy? Who's going to do that? Who's going to produce jobs and help with the immigration problems? Who's going to help us with our elderly and with the health care mess? Who's going to HELP US with the important things? This cheap penny ante crap is so sickening. It's detracting from everything that's important.