In the latest of a long line of gaffes, Mitt Romney insults a Pennsylvania bakery. Ed Schultz talks with John Nichols of The Nation Magazine about Romney's relatability problem (Apr. 19, 2012).
This is how the cookie crumbles for Mitt Romney. Romney’s infamous cookie insult from April is getting renewed attention in a key swing state.
On April 17, 2012, Romney cooked up the controversy as he was sitting down to a staged event with a handful of local voters at the Bethel Park Community Center in Bethel, Pennsylvania.
The local Bethel Bakery had provided a variety tray of five dozen cookies. Romney sniped, "I’m not sure about these cookies. They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or whatever."
The bakery backlash was immediate. As neighbors caught a whiff of the insult, Bethel Bakery’s business picked up dramatically.
The bakery staff put together a collection of cookies like the ones Romney insulted called the "Cookie-Gate Sampler." Cookie sales skyrocketed 130% by July. The bakery also started selling Cookie-Gate T-shirts with Romney’s quotation emblazoned on the back.
The Bethel Bakery burned Romney again this week. On Thursday, it launched what it calls a Presidential Confection Election. You can cast your vote for Obama by buying a blue shortbread cookie. Cast a vote for Romney with the purchase of a red one.
It’s a sweet deal for the bakery, since the owners are hoping you’ll vote repeatedly. You can get a bigger bang for your bakery buck by buying a bigger cookie with the candidate’s face on it. Those picture cookies are worth six votes each.
Maybe Romney should opt for the humble pie next time he visits Bethel, Pennsylvania.
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What fun! This is the way politics is supposed to be. Everyone needs to climb down a few steps and touch the earth again.
Always a good time to laugh. We need some reprieve from the seriousness of the election. But I'll be voting for hope, and Obama, and Nope to willard.
Remember, vote early and vote often!! Blue shortbread all the way
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Vote early, vote often, and vote big! Vote dozens of times! If I were there, that's what I'd do! If someone wants to vote by proxy for me, make 'em blue Obama cookies, and enjoy them, please! This is how to elect a President! PS someone could have some red ones for my 91-year-old mom...she'd like that!
How are deceased voters removed from the voter registration database?
In order to maintain an accurate voter database, the Registrar of Voters continually updates the voter registration records to account for the unfortunate situation of a deceased voter. Upon notification of the deceased party, the Registrar of Voters cancels that voter record. The Registrar of Voters office receives notification through the following methods:
•Returned mail that is marked "Deceased".
•Periodic death records provided by the Health Care Agency.
•The "Calvoter Deceased List", which is a list of deceased voters provided by the California Secretary of State's office multiple times a year.
•The roster index correction request, which is available at the polling places on Election Day.
•The Registrar of Voters office also cancels inactive voters who have not participated in two consecutive federal general elections, pursuant to California Elections Code 2226.
•Notification from a family member, including the name, address and date of death of the deceased.
•How do I notify the Registrar of Voters office of a deceased voter?
Mail or fax a letter to the Registrar of Voters office with the following information: ◦Name of the voter
◦The residential address of the voter
◦Birthdate of the voter
◦The relationship of the person notifying the office to the voter
◦Date of death of the voter
◦Signature of the person notifying the office
The hollering from the "right" fringe is, IMO, coming from a place where they don't trust themselves not to cheat and/or may have used a deceased voter's ballot to try to see if they can get away with casting it or actually have. Therefore, they often think a person who is "the opposition" thinks the same way that they do or act and will do the same.
A lesson about "finger pointing" my Dad taught me when I was a teenager, in regards to a suspicious mind or mirroring:
- Proverbs 23:7
Kathe,
you are exactly right.
see "Sarah Silverman's NO PHOTO, NO VOTO".
Go ahead, bite his head off! YES!
that's what I do with chocolate rabbits...
see "Sarah Silverman's NO PHOTO NO VOTO".
Just what we needed... Voting by ritualized cannibalism...
Valentine Michael Smith would be so proud...
So, tell me... If you are biting off the top of President Obama's head , you are actually voting FOR him?... Such mock violence would seem to contra-indicate that..
What can I say? I always though a cookie was a cookie, but this proves me wrong!
I can grok this, but don't think I could stomach a red one.
Really? Its a friggen cookie! See, that is how you make money, you sell what is top front in the public eye. Nothing more upfront then those 2. Obama all the way!!!!!!
we could go buy Biggy Rat's cookies and flush them away, but that would be a waste of a perfectly good COOKIE. Even if Biggy is a stupid, lying SOB, there's no sense in wasting good food.
see Sarah "Silverman's No Photo No Voto".
Now those are some UGLY cookies!
Oops! Didn't see the ones with the Prez. I meant Romney's cookies!
willard don't taste too good either, but Obama....MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM good.
you might try that without the double entendre... (8^))
see Sarah Silverman's No Photo No Voto".
Why have we not seen and discussed the obvious? From the 2010 tax return we "KNOW" that he reported a capital loss of $3,000 in 2009. We also "KNOW" from the 2010 return that he paid over $129,000 in foreign taxes in 2010. To pay foreign tax you must have foreign investments. Why is the candidate for POTUS investing so heavily "outside" the US?
modcpa.........Nearly all investors and stock brokers invest in foreign stocks. Where is Harry's tax returns ?
Harry's NOT running for President... pretty simple isn't it...
LOL good reply Bill!! This is what I don't get. I don't care what you made that is great. What I want to know is your plan for well, anything at all. The remarks from Mittens that he will reveal that after he is elected is like telling your boss the goals you set for the year will be in at end of year. The guy is a moron and has not said what he will do or how he will do it. Obviously if people are still following him they have blinders on or born and raised republican. So much for free will in those families lol
$129,000 in foreign taxes in 2010. To pay foreign tax you must have foreign investments. Why is the candidate for POTUS investing so heavily "outside" the US?
LOL
The guy is worth over 250M...........129k in taxes shows how LITTLE he has invested overseas.
Right because you are right there when robme hood invests over sea's. Here is a clue, if someone lies constantly then why are you so ready to vote for him just because he has an R behind his name, oh yeah that is right so when he screws up you can declare its not your fault because he lied to you and you voted for him. Typical tea bagged republican non logic at work, I know my guy lies so much that no one can figure out the truth but I trust him to not lie.
If Prez. Romney is a bad dream, Prez. Ryan is a wet dream
I know my guy lies so much that no one can figure out the truth but I trust him to not lie.
whoomi
Are you that naive? You're a Dem and Obama has been lying to you since he decided to run. Do you care...of course not. You're no different than me. Romney can say whatever he wants as long as he looks out for my interests.
I am a dem because I can't stand the GOP brown shirt mentality that has the dumb GOP supporters marching lock step behind morons like robme hood the Bushs and Reagan. Just how is you paying more taxes so robme can pay less looking out for your interest he is looking out for his own interest not yours. Oh yeah that is right you are a delusional tea bagged republican you think your double wide is a mansion.
paying more taxes so robme can pay less
We taxpayers don't pay more because of Repubs, we pay less. When the Bush tax cuts expire in Jan, 10,000,000 people that are in the "0" bracket will move back into the 10% bracket where they were before Bush gave them a break. Then it 's gonna be party time. I want to hear Barry explain that away, or maybe they will all stand behind him and say "I'M GLAD I'M GOING BACK ON THE TAX ROLLS....MY COUNTRY NEEDS ME"........................LOL
What a contradiction from a righty......again, Ente. From the recent posts, "you people" should be *jumping for joy* that the zero bracket will be paying more.
Why the hell do "you people" want to protect the "job creators" <sarc> from paying more too?
Actually, I know why.......your head is spinning and "you people" can thank the lying, radical, right-wing media for the resulting headaches. Take 2 aspirin or pop a BEER, sit down, relax and watch a fictional movie......like Trading Places. You'll probably be more informed at the end.
I really worry about "you people's" health.
That isn't what robme hood says he says he shouldn't have to pay taxes nor should the rest of the 1%. So now we are supposed to take the word of a dishonest lying republican that he is telling the truth, just ignore the last year of his lying posts.
the fact remains.....millions of Obamatoids will start paying taxes again.....they won't like paying their fair share one bit.
This is one Obamatoid and Marine Corps veteran who pays all of his taxes and I used to hire ten men while running a construction business for 25 years. I paid my taxes and didn't shelter my income in offshore tax avoidance havens like that stiff a@$%^^^ole Romnuts because the money is needed to support the troops in harms way. Which goes to the point that Romnuts is no patriot because he never thinks about the troops not even in his own convention speech. Wake up Ente.
see Sarah Silverman's No Photo No Voto".
ED, You couldn't tell by watching your show but the Middles East is burning. Protests against the United States at our Embassies, Consulates, and Business Interests across the Middle East, Africa, and other countries are at the top of the news. How about a little coverage?
Nawww... EDD is into important stuff, like cookies and.............
Ed.
Hope you staff are reading this vine and reporting to you all the positive comment you and MSNBC receive, and not the fake noise desperation, in and about the truth they never convey.
Have a willard cookie and bits his head off. Then spit it out.
ann's whine continues......how dare you give him what he has eared.....No respect.
http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/ann-romney-complains-her-husband-has-be
It is covered, by everyone and including him. What do you want to do ? They don't have free speech there, however what they need to do is deport the guy from LA to their country and let them deal with him. You put it across international bounds, that is your problem.
If they reported it they'd have to admit that Obama has made us the laughing stock of the world with his pathetic excuse for foreign policy.
The rest of the world hates our guts for meddling in things that are none of our business.
middle east is burning, why because some moron made a movie, here in the US, because he can in a free country, it showed up on U tube, and the uneducated, jobless, young Muslin men and boys went crazy, so what coverage, everyone else, except the far right understands the cause
And you can't see that this is just a manufactured excuse for us to justify military intervention over there and once again meddle in affairs that are none of our business.
This video will be pointed to as the cause, and because it originated here they will pass it off as our responsibility to intervene and fix.
Get a clue. This false flag @!$%# is happening all the time.
Maybe if you racist would stay off the Internet this crap wouldn't happen. Justify military intervention? Now you know you were sitting at home waving the american flag singing hail to the chief when your boy bush announced we were invading Iraq, correct?
Bush was not "my boy" and I thought he was an imbecile John.
You are the one of the ringleaders of conclusion jumpers here so I have to consider the source.
Calling me a racist doesn't intimidate me John. I'm not going to dignify your retarded accusation with a counterpoint because there's no need to. Labeling me a racist only proves that you can not support your argument with rational thought. This liberal bullying technique is not an effective way of chasing people away from an argument anymore. Get a clue.
Typical fail.
It won't respond.Hah! Seems you struck a nerve John!
Respond to what exactly?
go back to fox and tell them we at MSNBC are moving forward-------------2ez and your buddy hussein (trying to look like obama) i know who you are <<>>I can tell by your shoes you dont have hood or robe on butttt----I know who you are <<< Thought You Fool Us__________— But I Got You
Forward right off of a cliff.
You are lost in the fog of liberal fantasy land.
Forward is the latest meaningless nebulus Obamaspeak term for 4 more years of nothingness.
You are the re-reg, hope and change....that has no respect, deserves no respect and will get no respect because you are the one who has nothing to say. Just here to try and intimidate. Why do you keep recreating yourself? Maybe we should call in and expert.
See Sarah Silverman's No Photo, No Voto".
This is funny, but let there be no mistake. This isn't news, nor should this even be an issue for discussion. A big deal being made about nothing significant. This is petty and something the right wing news would do. The left apparently isn't any better when it comes to deciphering what is important to focus on and what isn't.
Just for laughs, Todd.
We work hard for Obama every day and believe me we are focused.
We work hard for Obama every day and believe me we are focused.
HMMMMM!
Whining into a computer keyboard 12 hours a day is is working?
No that would be you, stop projecting your behaviors onto others that you know nothing about.
whoomi
you have my humble apology.
Ente's got humble pie all over its face!
Well, ente......looks like you are here on your keyboard. What does that make you???
I'm just exercising my AMERICAN FREEDOMS.
Also, just part of the personality split of the re-reg...and hoping the mods don't find all his fringe benefits (Nicks)
See Sarah Silverman's No Photo No Voto.
And you right wingers want this idiot to be the leader of the Free World. Really now??? Everywhere he goes he ends up insulting or disparaging people and their way of life. Up to now, he's kept his ignorant comments low key but that video tells us in no uncertain terms what he really feels about the "little" people in this country. He's not fit to lead. And Paul Ryan is an immature little kid out their lying all the time. Grow up little man!! You are a selfish little spoiled brat who has no clue what it is to care about the less fortunate. I don't know how people raise their children to be so selfish. These good conservatives go to church every Sunday too. But what for? They must be taking a nap because they sure haven't learned what it is to be a good Christian.
AMEN !!!! I wonder if he even TIPS those who were feeding him that night. Doubt it....Wouldn't dare give them anything from his own swolen pockets !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!People of his own FAITH are disgusted with his remarks and have been public about it too. Sit back and wait tho, no doubt his "tone" will change , apparently the tone of his spray tanned skin too.
Little Pauly's Mom is right there in the audience lots of times, just beaming at her baby boy as he cuts the throats of the elderly. Glad she's not MY Mom.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/swing-states-poll-obama-lead.php?
Just look at that smile on OBAMA's face!
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A Pennsylvania election without Voter ID? What a concept. Go Bethel Bakery! Oh, and to all who think this is a wast of time, all news programs interject a little levity into their shows,, otherwise our heads would explode.
Hey I am from Chicago if i buy a dozen Obama's does that count as 12 votes...
No because you're a ZERO!
Hey I am from Chicago If i buy a dozen that count as 12 votes...I want a Romney cookie so i can dunk it in my coffee...
No you're Kool- Aid
Associated Press:
© 2012 The Associated Press.
BOO!
Hey, xxx......how are things?.....don't scare me like that. I want a cookie. You didn't eat them all up did you?
Soowe I edum aw wup!
I knew it! You are just a sucker for the cookies.
See Sarah Silverman's "No Photo, No Voto".
@Todd Sherr....You might call this "pety" and "nothing significant" but say that to the people who work tireless hours in that little bakery, who probably were very proud and honored to make cookies for his little "picnic" only to be slapped down. This is just ANOTHER MITT WHITT moment that NEEDS to show how the man really feels about us....
People of all parties need to make the best decision come November. Diplomacy goes a long way to helping this Country and working for the good of our Nation and others. THIS MAN HAS CLEARLY MADE A POINT TO SHOW THAT HE HAS NO DIPLOMACY , NO HONOR !!! AND IN HIS OWN WORDS...NOTHING PHOTOSHOPPED, NOTHING DUBBED
Once again Woolard has shown how easily he has disregard for people. He lacks terribly in any feelings I certainly wouldn't want him to be prsident if a major disaster would take place like Katrina or the tornadoes that struck Jopiin Missouri. I would expect Woolard to say "You have your winners and losers! Tough luck!
But The Same People Dont Belive In Federal Help------------I dont Know????? Every Man For His Self<<<<>>>That What They Said!!!<<<<<>>>I Dont Know???? Somebody Tell Me------------------VOTE
Pay back is hell. Mitt is so stuck up until he can't recognize a good Cookie when he sees one! Go figure that? Obama 2012!
Go Blue
If Romney didn't know how to be gracious when being served the best pastries then how is he going to do when receiving heads of state? We don't want to find out! Vote Obama!
sharon /John.........Comparing cookies is a not a very serious, or mature way to choose our president. Is that out of the EDD leftwing playbook?
Woolard isn't a smart cookie. And all he cares about is making more dough.
i bet the romney ones are old, bitter ,and tastes like sh#t
DAM
Not following you there, JF.
That sounds like how Chris McMurray's bakery in VA would serve his cookies to Vice-President Joe Biden. It's probably a good thing that Joe wasn't served (remember what the restaurant owner did with the hogie for the cops in that DeNiro/Pesci Vegas mob move....if you saw it?). I think the Bethel Bakery has shown it has more integrity and smarts than that.
As a one time small business owner (not retail but, if I was), I'd welcome Joe Biden with open arms (cash register) whether I liked him or not. Make the money, get the publicity, *and* $upport whatever cause I feel like! That Republican pizza guy has the correct attitude too......we need more people like him around.
I'll defend McMurray's right to turn away a customer as long as it's not based on race, religion, etc. but, the guy is an idiot to take "this stand" *especially* since he's been open for *only 3 months*.....it's his loss. His ideology seems to be based on the r/tp, fringe loonies' media misinformation. All I can say is I'm old school Conservative which is the complete opposite of radical and *I believe* also the opposite of stupid.
Wow......he could have increased his business 10 fold with the publicity! Guess McMurray will never know. Easy come.....easy go......when you're first starting out??? "Right".
Bethel Bakery has the business sense to run with Willard's lack of manners when he wouldn't eat cookies from a fine bakery at a host's house because they didn't "look good, etc.". This whole attitude I find disgusting from the "right" and this candidate who *really should know* better......there's great parenting for ya. <sarc>
Just keep dividing the Country more and more, people......that's just what this Country needs now. <sarc again>
You leftwingers have yet to mention the resturant owner who refused to allow Biden into his resturant. Business tripled afterwards.
You have failed to make an impression...Just cooked up a story with no proof.
Did not have to go far for this...too easy to show proof to those who fail to comprehend.
http://now.msn.com/bakery-owner-turns-down-visit-from-vice-president-joe-biden
FAKE NEWS! If I was you I would get your info from a more trusted source like FOX..
There are many more links just like this one. Just because Ed did not tell you it happened, doesn't mean it didn't. More than likely, if Ed did not report (sarcasm) it, it probably did. Try this one on for size.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/update-secret-service-denies-thanking-baker-for-rejecting-biden-visit/article/2505202#.UF5lPa7F_3g
I know, I know, it does not start with MSNBC.com, so it must not be true.
This is ED's vine and you are his guest.
We listen to many news reports, programs, and even read. How dare you assume other wise.
Thank you ED for keeping the American informed....about the real American People.
see Sarah Silverman's "No Photo No Voto".
Oh I don't like the looks of those cookies! I don't think those are very smart cookies! But they are like Woolard they both take allot of doe/dough!
I heard that after the big success of their sales that Hershey’s is coming out with a new products!
Wiilard's Butt Kisses & I bet $10000.00 Bucks Bar!
Woolard lies lies lies there was a pie missing after Woolard left but he deny's taking it and he said "Nobody saw me take it" But the proof is there because he's got Blueberry pie all over his face!
bugsy.... Can you believe this leftwinger actually gets to vote for presdent? Very dangerous.
who are you working for today-----------usunderattack<<>>wait a min.-----you are attacking us at MSNBC<<<<<>>>Go Back To Fox Noise
jelly.......I have no idea where you are or who you are. But,I can tell by your posts that you are not a Dem or Republican. I suspect an anti-American leftwinger. Be what you wanna be. Your call.
Perhaps its one of Norquists covert operatives from the American Taliban.
Nope, more lie a rove dope or a kochroach Sunday, Joe the plumber. LOL The Taliban have to have brains to work with.
An interesting concept; If Romney wins the election he will inherite Obamas mess. If Obama wins, he will inherite his own mess! What a mess!!
LOL
Still trying to defend BUSH!
Of course, he will still blame everyone but himself.
See what I mean?
where did all these trolls come from today ------------must be raining outside
Mommy went shopping.
Well that's how the cookie crumbles... I doughnut know!
they are at grandmothers house using her computer in the back room while every one else is watching foot ball, or taking a nap.