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Romney gaffes will soon become classics like those of Prince Philip
by Joseph Earnest July 27, 2012
Newscast Media AUSTIN, Texas—Listening to the gaffes Mitt Romney has made so far, reminds one of the gaffes made by another high-ranking official across the pond. Prince Philip is perhaps the master of gaffes, that initially his statements were considered offensive, but now many consider them classics and to some extent satire. Romney is gaffe-prone too, but I suspect decades from now, we'll all look back and be able to extract the humor in what we currently consider Romney gaffes.
Below are some of the gaffes Romney has made as compiled by Daniel Kurtzman:
"Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are. Everything
corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it
goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my
friend." —Mitt Romney to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair (August 2011).
"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." –Mitt Romney, using an unfortunate choice of words while advocating for consumer choice in health insurance plans (January 2012).
"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there." —Mitt Romney (January 2012).
"It's hard to know just how well [the 2012 London Olympics] will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting. The stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging." July 25, 2012.
"I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." —Mitt Romney, speaking in 2011 to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.
"[My wife] drives a couple of Cadillacs." –Mitt Romney, campaigning for president in Michigan (February 2012).
"I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love." –Mitt Romney (January 2012).
"I'm not sure about these cookies. They don't look like you made them. No, no. They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever." —Mitt Romney, visiting a local bakery while campaigning in Pittsburgh, PA, April 17, 2012 (The owner of the baker later told MSNBC he was offended by Romney's remarks).
"I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was." —Mitt Romney (May 17, 2012).
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The gaffes below were made by Prince Philip as compiled by Mirror News Online:
At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965, he said: “Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don’t you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?’”
To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”
To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”
To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”
To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
On the 1981 recession: “A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.”
To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
“You ARE a woman, aren’t you?” Kenya, 1984.
To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”
To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”
After hearing President Obama had had breakfast with leaders of the UK, China and Russia, 2010 he asked: “Can you tell the difference between them?”
To schoolchildren in blood-red uniforms, 1998: “It makes you all look like Dracula’s daughters!” Add Comments>>
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