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"My father was born in Mexico... of American parents!" lolz
Damn, Willard's a ing racist, tbh.... what's next, is he going to show up on BET in blackface?
"My father was born in Mexico... of American parents!" lolz
Then pose standing in line at the UNEM office trying to look like Average Joe.
When Obama and Romney do interviews like this, aren't they just pandering? The sad thing is that it's so in' obvious that it is pathetic.
Romney Darkens Skin Color to Appear More Hispanic for Univision Interview?
It's not going unnoticed that in a September 19th interview on Univision (which has the largest reach of news programming to Latino audiences in the United States), Mitt Romney had his face darkened to appear, well, more Hispanic. As a sharp eye on Democratic Underground noted and showed, there is simply no disputing it if you look at Romney's face while on Univision as compared to his other campaign photos and television appearances.
The cheesy attempt to subliminally try to make Romney appear more Latino, instead of a pale Mormon, was blatantly evident in a surprisingly critical article of the interview in the right wing Washington Times (although it should be disclosed that the commentary was from a liberal blogger). Just check out the Associated Press photos by clicking here.
As far as proof of Romney man tanning it up to try to appear more like "one of them," just look at his wan hands as compared to his face in the YouTube video of the television program. Catch the white skin in contrast to the heavy pancake makeup on his face as you watch the interview. (The video is posted at the end of this commentary.)
If you actually listen to the interview, Romney is doggedly challenged on his Latino immigration flip flops by Univision journalist Maria Elena Salinas. Salinas and co-interviewer Jorge Ramos look lighter in skin tone than the heavily darkened Romney.
You have to wonder how much the Romney campaign is in freefall when it's candidate imitates Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in black face (although with a brown instead of black face) in order to sway Hispanic voters.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/c...sion-interview
Etch-a-sketch Gecko, "today I'm a illegal immigrant and unemployed, too."
5 Ways ‘I Wish I Was Mexican’ Mitt Reveals Contempt for Brown and Black People
1. Latinos get all the breaks. Early in his remarks to the Boca burghers, Romney discusses his "heritage:"
My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico… and had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.
Because, you know, there have been so many Latino U.S. presidents.
Mitt's Mexican dream has given rise to all manner of hilarity on late-night shows and in the Twitterverse, where the newly hatched @MexicanMitt [9]("I am the Juan Percent!") is presently holding court.
Viewed in the context of his later comments about Obama voters as being freeloaders, Romney's rationale for wanting to be Latino seems to be that all those moocheros would totally vote for a guy just because he looks like them, as would, presumably, all those other dependency-addicted Americans, since a Latino prez, like a black one, is, in his view, emblematic of the dependency culture. It's a novel variation on the old producerist [10] trope that dates back to the pre-Civil War Jacksonian age, and was used as a rationale for maintaining slavery.
Poor Mitt. It's tough to be a rich, white guy these days.
2. Black people want free stuff. In July, Romney made an appearance before the NAACP's annual convention, declaring himself to be the best presidential candidate "for African American families." Then, in an apparent bid to collect television footage of black people booing him, he declared his intention to "repeal Obamacare."
At a fundraiser later that night, according to a pool report [11], Romney responded to a question about his reception at the civil rights group's gathering:
I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this: If they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy -- more free stuff. But don't forget nothing is really free.
3. Arabs love war -- and are poor because of their inferior culture. In the video secretly shot at the Boca fundraiser, Romney offers a new twist on the Middle East peace process, basically saying the best approach is to kick the can down the road. Why? Because, Romney says, "the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace." That's right -- none of them. (This assumption, by the way, flies in the face of public polling data [12] in the occupied territories.)
Add to that statement Romney's assertion [13] before a group in Israel that "culture" is the reason for the wealth disparity between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and you have Romney painting Palestinian Arabs according to the racist "ghetto thug" stereotypes used against blacks in the U.S.
Romney's Israel remarks, as reported by TPM's Benjy Sarlin [14] in July:
As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita*, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality."
"Culture makes all the difference," Romney said. "And as I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation, I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things." Among them, he cited "the hand of providence."
4. Falsely painting black president as promoter of work-free welfare payments. Having yet to close the deal with the Republican base, Romney set out in August to provide right-wingers with a false narrative about President Barack Obama that would vindicate the racist biases of the right, especially the notion that Obama favors blacks over whites, based around the false assumption of the average welfare recipient as black, and the lie that the Obama sought to remove the work requirements from federal welfare payments.
In a series of ads, the Romney campaign mischaracterized waivers granted to several states as the undoing of welfare reform when, in fact, the waivers were granted in order to allow the states to try new methods to increase the employment numbers of welfare recipients.
5. Another twist on the "lazy Negro" theme. As I reported [7] in July:
At the end of May, the Romney campaign rolled out a new campaign based around the theme, "Obama Isn't Working." It was a neat little double entendre, with a surface-level meaning, if one read it as a grammatically tortured kind of shorthand, that Obama's policies aren't working, while its grammatically correct meaning implied that the African American president is, well, shiftless [15] -- a notion that is a persistent racial stereotype of American black people.
http://www.alternet.org/print/electi...d-black-people
Maybe he got a fake tan like Kerry did. Maybe he got real sunlight.
The only reason why a white person would want to be a minority is so they can use the race card and use their skin color as a crutch. Plain and simple.
Are you saying he got a tan intentionally for such a purpose?
Pretty much. He was desperate. I still don't see how any American can see that Romney or Obama are on the same level as them. They're both rich powerful successful ego maniacs.
it's like when Al Gore put on the clown makeup for the debate . . .
I agree with that. Problem is, which is the lesser of two evils?
I don't recall him doing that, but he didn't need any clown makeup. He is a clown.
dude didn't use on his face i think, just forgot to wash his face in the morning that day maybe
false equivalence, where it counts. Their policies are VERY DIFFERENT.
eg, Gecko said he doesn't support net neutrality, so he would gut the FCC and we'd end up with ATT Internet, Verizon Internet, Comcast Internet, etc. As with VoucherCare killing Medicare, it would be the end of Internet.
UCA/1% wins, Human-Americans/99% loses
You do realize that "net neutrality" is a coercive action by the very federal government that has been trying to pass bills like SOPA and PIPA that vastly censor the Internet, dumbass....
net neutrality is different from SOPA and PIPA, dumbass
Gecko wants FCC to stop all regulations of Internet, leaving it to the cartel of network corporations to carve up and pervert for profit, dumbass.
and the government isn't originating SOPA, PIPA, Internet deregulation.
All of that is the your hated, demonic govt captured by and working for your adored, respected corporations.
As always, you right-wingers are easily mislead by 1%/UCA into ignorance of what's really going on.
He was covering up a sunburn. The ridicule he faced then for it, like the ridicule Mitt Romney faces now, is pea-brained.
what's funny is this isn't even as blatant as obama's election pandering to [email protected] no liberals or latino's seemed to notice det
what's he gonna do for the black caucus? remake of "Soul Man" in his future
Kolbert Kills!
http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-vie...tter714511&t=4
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