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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/did-ann-romney-really-call-americans-you-people-this-morning/260084/&feature=player_embedded
Jul 19 2012, 3:29 PM ET 66
Asked about releasing tax returns, the GOP candidate's wife says her family isn't hiding anything.
With Mitt Romney in attack mode, Ann Romney was on the TV circuit Thursday morning, talking to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. During that interview, she was pressed on whether her husband will release his taxes for more than the last two years. Her comments are being widely reported as this:
We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.
Needless to say, using "you people" is pretty much never a good look -- at the very least, it comes across as patronizing and condescending. Dan Amira reviewed the tape and comes away arguing that's not actually what she said -- that in fact she just stumbled verbally. It's a tough call, but you can watch and decide for yourself. But who cares if Ann Romney had a brief slip? As verbal gaffes go, this one ranks pretty low. People who see this as proof of Romney's irredeemable snobbiness almost certainly felt she was irredeemably snobby already. Nor is it news that the Romneys aren't big fans of the media.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)And the stupid who already support them will not see this for the demeaning way it was presented.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)me want to take my staple gun to my forehead.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Better yet, I'd like to staple the missing tax returns to their foreheads.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)you media people, but that's almost as bad since it implies that only the media people are interested. Note also that if this interpretation is correct, the assumption is that the media people are out to get poor little Mitt.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)Keep interviewing her, she grows on you, like black mold.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)she said it clearly.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Trending on Twitter lol lol
#youpeople
Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)n/t
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)the 'Tree People' are actually a really wonderful tribe, vastly superior to the Romneys in every respect other than material acquisitions.
librechik
(30,678 posts)not that that is much of an excuse.
whathehell
(29,103 posts)it's essentially the same, in that journalists
are, technically, at least, representatives of "we the people"
who, BTW, are the "people" who get to decide whether
"those people" get in the White House.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Via the journalists. What journalists would keep it in a secret box? This is a non-meaningful distinction.
MsPithy
(809 posts)If "You People," means the press, that still means ME. I personally, am not in a position to ask Ann anything. In this case, Robin Roberts is me.
wandy
(3,539 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)And then watch for the hypocrisy. We'll hear one of them say there is something the President should produce.
And also if every other Presidential candidate in recent history has done it, then why shouldn't they?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)opinion, i realize.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)especially given that Mitt is so given to taking President Obama's words out of context.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)ever referred to anyone like that? But hoity toity rich white women can do it all day and it's just fiiine.
Mrs. Romney is like her husband: condescending, pompous ass.
soccer1
(343 posts)she and Mitt have decided that they don't want the returns scrutinized by the media, those who support Obama and the Obama campaign (all you people). That's the bottom line......anyone who might have a different interpretation of what's in the returns is off limits. I suppose because Mitt might have a hard time explaining away "those people's" intepretations.
chowder66
(9,104 posts)AR:
Mitt has led his life and where hes been financially. Hes a very generous person. WE give 10% of our income to our church every year.
Do you think that is the kind of person that tries to hide things or do things. No. He is so good about it.
Then when he was the Governor of Massachusetts
didnt take a salary
in the four years.
RR: Why not show that then? Why not release
. because thats a moot point!. To move on....
AR: Because there are so many things that will be open again for more attack.
And you just wanna give more material for more attack and thats really, thats just the answer. And weve given all you people need to know
and understand
about our financial situation and about how we live our life and so that election again
will not be decided on that, they will be decided on who is going to turn the economy around and how are jobs going to come back to America.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)It sounds racist to me (and I am white).
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BeliQueen
(504 posts)She's talking to a black woman and her husband is running against a black man. She equates these "attacks" with black people.
She used the phrase "you people" because in her mind the only people harassing her husband for his tax returns are black.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)that is exactly how it looked to me too
Tikki
(14,562 posts)Tikki
died-in-1994
(16 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Just keep agreeing with me and you will do fine here
DON'T DO IT!!! Seriously!
Booster
(10,021 posts)Tikki
(14,562 posts)We look forward to more of your posts....
Tikki
died-in-1994
(16 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)elleng
(131,370 posts)She may have been referring to the media, as 'you people.' If so, another misunderstanding, to balance against their 'misunderstandings' they continually rerun about POTUS' statements.
FarPoint
(12,481 posts)Let me try and recall exactly how Ross Perot attempted to clean up his slip of " You People" during a Presidential Debate.... Actually, I'll have to research it.
I do recall that such a "slip" caused his momentum to drop like a lead balloon.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)They are trying to spin it as if that's not what she really said, like when Santorum ridiculously claimed he really said "blah" people when he said he didn't want to make black people's lives better.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)and yet, they're neck in neck in the polls...
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, HUH???
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)They may or may not accept Mitt and your story about why you won't release your tax returns, or they may wonder what you are hiding.
ashling
(25,771 posts)not that that's any less condescending and just plain rude.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)It's up to her to explain what she meant and who she meant by that remark