Unaired Romney 60 Minutes segment: "I pulled off the road when blacks could become preists!"

[Bluebear]

"A news report came on that the President of the Mormon church has had an inspiration that African-Americans could now become priests... and I pulled off the road...it hit my heart very hard."

(Segment aired on WBZ-TV/Boston this morning, it did not make the final cut for the broadcast last night.)
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I don't believe this happened, Mr. Romney. I don't believe you were so overcome you had to pull of the road. I do not believe you.

[durrrty libby]

1. Oh yeah, he is full of shit

[MrSlayer]

2. Sure it did.

He had to pull over due to shock and outrage.

[The Count]

5. Precisely. It's how I read it. It's how CBS execs read it and pulled it off the air.

To me that's the reall story here: CBS protects GOP candidates from his own idiocy.
GOP candidate=racist - not really that earth shattering.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Exactly, they wouldn't have edited it out if it were flattering...

[donco6]

11. That's how I heard it, too.

Outrage, not joy.

[MrSlayer]

13. It's hard not to hear it that way.

From an organization that didn't even recognize black people as people until the civil rights act passed.

[City Lights]

12. That's exactly how I interpreted it. eom

[iverglas]

16. nonetheless, it's not what he said

on Conan O'Brien's show, I believe it was, the night before the televised debate. He said that the doctrine had caused him pain or sorrow or some such (I watched the show, but can't find a reference to it on line), and the emotional reponse he described was plainly joy/relief at the change.

Whether the story is true, or that was his response to the change, I wouldn't know.

A bunch of us did drive down the highway honking our horn and waving our arms madly when the news came over the radio that the Shah of Iran had died ...

[NewJeffCT]

18. That was my take as well

I don't recall African Americans being very welcomed into the Mormon church years back, even when it became "ok" for them to be priests.

[JTFrog]

3. "it hit my heart very hard"

So he was driving down the road and heard the announcement and it gave him a heart attack? More likely scenario.

[SoCalDem]

4. He was probably overcome.. but for the opposite reason

:evilgrin:

[melody]

6. He was moved because his church finally entered the modern world?

Sorry, but any church that didn't admit to their priesthood ALL people equally, is a church I wouldn't belong to. If he thinks he's making points, he is -- as usual -- clueless.

[Edgeoforever]

7. Wait! This is the same 60 Minutes that editorialized Clark's interview "but he

has no compassion for the poor Iraqis Saddam opressed" (the "heroic" Dan Rather)
nah, it can't be. 60 minutes doesn't try to make candidates appear BETTER than they are ...unless of course they are GOP!

[renate]

17. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[IntravenousDemilo]

8. What's really shocking is that he could ever have believed otherwise in the first place...

...and not known he was a racist -- unless what hit his heart very hard was the realization that he was one, in which case he should be a big boy and admit his racist leanings in exactly those unvarnished terms.

[mockmonkey]

9. Whenever I see Mitt (graphic)

I can't help but to think of this guy.



Anyone else think of Dr. Hill when they see Mitt?

[Boo Boo]

14. I don't buy it either. This guy's already proven that he's a fibber with his

"lifelong hunter" horseshit. At least this time he managed to tell one that can't come back to bite him in the ass. Although, it would be great if somebody from his past came forward and told about how "livid" he was when heard, etc.

[Bluebear]

19. The real story is never enough for Republican candidates

Say you believe he was delighted at the decision. Fine! Why embellish it with this "I pulled over" schtick?

Reminds me of Ghouliani saying on 9/11 "Thank God Bush is our President!" i don't believe that happened either.

[iverglas]

15. he has his line down pat

He said exactly the same thing on the late-night talk show we saw the night before the televised debate. (He also said exactly the same incoherent thing in the interview and the debate about how he managed to be come anti-choice.)

Apparently the Mormon revelation came in 1965, when Romney would have been 18. I'm surprised that the issue was on his radar -- but if it was, I'm disgusted that he hadn't left the church over it. As I mentioned on another thread, I left my own church in about 1967, when I was three years younger than that, just because I didn't believe what it taught anymore. If it had refused to ordain women or people of colour, I'd have left before that. And I expect at least as much integrity and intelligence from people who want me to vote for them.

Oh, all right, I can't expect everybody I vote for to be an atheist. And yes, it did take my ex-church a few more years before it began ordaining gay men and lesbians, but it did that pretty much as soon as the issue got raised, and it suffered the schism that occurred as a result when the conservative Chinese-Canadian congregations left in a bigoted huff. That's integrity. Proclaiming to have been sorrowed by one's church's bigotry while doing nothing about it isn't.