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Man Behind Romney’s Infamous ’47 Percent’ Video Finally Reveals Himself on MSNBC

WASHINGTON (AP/TheBlaze) — The bartender working the private fundraiser where Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his comments about “47 percent” of Americans says he didn’t make the secret recording as a political partisan.

In his first public interview, Scott Prouty tells MSNBC’s Ed Schultz that he lost sleep and struggled for weeks before deciding to release the recording to the magazine Mother Jones. But Prouty says he thought it was important that people heard Romney and knew what he was really thinking.

In the video, Romney tells donors paying $50,000 apiece that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government, see themselves as victims and believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.

Romney’s critics used the video to argue that he was out of touch with average Americans.

Prouty steadfastly maintains that his motives in recording the video were apolitical. However, his Twitter feeds — AnneOnymous670 prior to the Ed Show taping, and ScottProuty now — tell a different story. To begin with, the anonymous Twitter feed trades explicitly on Prouty’s identity as the person who leaked the tape, to the point of featuring this image as its background:

Scott Prouty, Man Behind Mitt Romneys 47 Percent Video, Speaks Out on Ed Show

Prouty’s Tweets, meanwhile, evince a highly pro-union, anti-Republican viewpoint and, in some cases, anti-NRA viewpoint, even after the election. A quick sample follows:

 

 

 

What is more, Prouty relentlessly publicized the video himself under the Youtube handle “Romney Exposed,” and also as Daily Kos blogger AnneOnymous670.

Scott Prouty, Man Behind Mitt Romneys 47 Percent Video, Speaks Out on Ed Show

Prouty also reached out to Democratic opposition researcher James Carter about it, rather than sending it to reporters. The Huffington Post reports on this process:

But Prouty didn’t wait for a reporter to find him.

He found James Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, who had discovered a talent for opposition research and finding gotcha videos deep in the C-Span archives. Prouty had followed Carter’s work on YouTube. “He had good sense enough to follow me back when he saw my videos after I followed him,” Prouty said. “Then he had the good sense enough to contact me after that.”

Prouty said he wanted Carter to help him get in touch with Mother Jones’ David Corn. He had been a big admirer of Corn’s work — especially his investigative pieces on Romney and the Hong Kong-based Global-Tech Appliances, a firm that sought to profit from U.S. outsourcing. He saw Corn on television all the time, he said. Maybe the veteran journalist could get his little film on the air. “They were picked,” he said of Carter and Corn.

Now, Prouty regrets letting Corn take credit for the video, citing the reporter’s outsize bragging about “uncovering” it, which Prouty sees as overzealous self-promotion.

“I sent it to [Corn] in regular mail, taped to a small, like, a little note card in an envelope,” Prouty told the Huffington Post.

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Comments (179)

  • txannie
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:29am

    Has anyone actually proven Romney’s statement as wrong? I guess it’s a bad thing to state statistics now. Lie through your teeth, get elected to office….tell the truth, get pilloried. Bad stuff comin’ down the pike…

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    • zorro
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:34am

      That’s not the point. The way he said it was stupid and made him look like a douche-bag. In fact, there is a trend among conservatives to belittle the lower class and ride them off. This is a mistake. As stupid as this action was, it’s not what cost him the election. Gary Johnson and the imbecils that supported him are. The idiots who stayed home because their libertarian hero lost and considered Obama and Romney to be “the same thing” cost Romney the election.

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:12am

      Yoursensei is admittedly more right than not (pardon the pun) on this point… but it is equally true of the democrats regurgitating DNC talking points too.

      What I really want to know is how do we fix this problem of the masses being so uninformed they are easily lead to and fro???

      It is indeed so.

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    • pauli101
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:22am

      this was never an ideological battle of left vs right, GOP vs Dems, Socialism vs liberty. This is ethnic warfare against white people.

      Why are hostile globalist elite defending Israel as a Jewish ethnostate with Jewish only immigration, but ravaging white majority Europe, North America into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Gulag with dystopian non-White colonization?

      Why do gullible Whites kowtow to hostile Jewish & crypto-Jewish elite, who butcher White soldiers in bankrupting wars, infiltrate & subvert our banks & spying agencies, indoctrinate us in classrooms & mass media, impose trillions in debt, & plunder our jobs & wages?

      East Asia is 99% yellow. Africa is 99% Black. West Asia is 99% Brown. But 3rd world colonizers are annihilating Whites, just as Chinese colonizers are annihilating Tibet.

      “Native” Americans are not native. They invaded from East Asia. Whites weren’t the only slave owners, imperialists. Muslims, Jews, China, India, Mayans, Africans all are guilty of slavery, imperialism. Whites were victims of Islamic, Jewish, African imperialism, slavery.

      Gullible Whites should reject subversive Jewish ideologies like libertarianism, feminism, liberalism, socialism. They should reject hostile slanders of racism, collectivism.

      Love to all humanity, but White people must unite & organize to advance their families, their fertility, their interests. Reading list:
      goo.gl/iB777
      amazon.com/dp/0759672229
      amazon.com/dp/1410792617

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:31am

      While the media spins one stupid poll after another for why Romney lost:

      … 70% latinos voted democrat and
      … 60% women voted democrat and
      … 80% of college educated citizens
      … 98% blacks voted democrat (that one is true all others bovine excrement)
      …etc etc

      … but only lost by 4 million votes (despite all the white racists on his side and only 2% of the non black racists voted for the white guy??? less than half of all whites including Hispanic Caucasians are supposedly racist AND 98% OF ALL BLACKS CLEARLY ARE, by the media’s own definition)

      The single reason Romney lost was the so called religious right stayed home… the protestants (Methodists, Baptists, etc) couldn’t “cotton” to vote for a Mormon… and its important to note all the democrats that didn’t vote for a Mormon either are cut from the same cloth (SECTist hypocrites).

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:32am

      While the media spins one stupid poll after another for why Romney lost:

      … 70% latinos voted democrat and
      … 60% women voted democrat and
      … 80% of college educated citizens
      … 98% blacks voted democrat (that one is true all others bovine excrement)
      …etc etc

      … but only lost by 4 million votes (despite all the white racists on his side and only 2% of the non black racists voted for the white guy??? less than half of all whites including Hispanic Caucasians are supposedly racist AND 98% OF ALL BLACKS CLEARLY ARE, by the media’s own definition)

      The single reason Romney lost was the so called religious right stayed home… the protestants (Methodists, Baptists, etc) couldn’t “cotton” to vote for a Mormon… and its important to note all the democrats that didn’t vote for a Mormon either are cut from the same cloth (SECTist hypocrites)…

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    • landowner
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:37am

      So in context the statement as I remember it was that it didn’t make sense to promise to lower taxes to people who don’t pay them. On the whole I think it makes sense. How do you sell milk to lactose intollerent people? YOU CAN’T. What????

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:05pm

      @txannie

      To answer your question, no they have not proven Governor Romney’s “47%” comment was wrong. I’m not going to say that 100% of the 47% are what the Governor has described but I would venture to say that yes a majority of this particular population are too in it for themselves, too lazy to get that 2nd job and/or not willing enough or tough enough to live a more fiscally responsible lifestyle. These are the people who want their “Obama Phone” and want the minimum wage to be increased that would break the backs of small businesses.He’s a thought: about time instead of increasing minimum wage, decrease cost of living through property tax reform. @YourSensei…stuff a sock in it. If our so called leaders from The Left would stop trying to make everyone to feel good by giving them free stuff off the backs of hard working tax payers and start actually understand and teach how America was built and how it succeeds in a free market instead of a shackled market then those in the “47″ would be lead out of the darkness of socialistic style economics and into opportunity.

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    • SendTheMeteors
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:16pm

      Actually Romney lost the election because people didn’t like the policies he expressed in the primaries, and then tried to retract in the general election.

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:26pm

      This is all ancient history. Try another story, potential poster.

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    • RajCaj
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:35pm

      Landowner has it right…..

      If you watched the unedited version of the tape, it wasn’t about putting down low income voters(as inarticulate and untactful as the statement was)….it was about addressing the issue in his campaign’s lack of performance. He’s speaking to a bunch of high dollar campaign donors who want to be assured that their investment isn’t being wasted…hence Mitt addressing identified failures in his campaign, and how he planned to close that gap. It was really no different than a CEO addressing a board or a group of potential investors in a business envirnoment.

      His point was that his campaign focused on the message that his policies would cut taxes for all citizens, allowing them to keep more of their own money. This was a message that used to resonate with many more Americans. What he failed to realize was that about 47% of Americans today will not pay out a NET loss in Income Taxes because of all the deductions, incentives, and social programs that either totally reimburse what they paid to the gov throughout the year….or even get more money back. Hence…..the message of you keeping more of your money did not register.

      What’s inaccurate about that message? (Other than being poorly stated…but appropriate for the audience)

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:22pm

      Barry has created the 21st century slavery Plantation – the 51% Obama voters – The takers.
      He is a Socialist ideologue by ANY definition. He is not a leader but a divider and campaigner.
      The Republicans could not beat Santa Clause.
      But not to worry – IT will be a rather short term problem. Because as Thatcher said “sooner or later you will run out of other peoples money” Well, we are very close to that point.
      Hyper inflation will hit this summer – there will be a bank runs in Europe and eventually the whole world house of cards and $1 quadrillion derivative bubble will burst – BOOM – welcome major depression!!

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:27pm

      Romney lost because he was never meant to win, he was far to liberal (look at romneycare) for the conservatives. He was pushed to the forefront as an establishment candidate plain and simple. He ran just to keep a conservative from getting in the white house PERIOD.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:33pm

      YOURSENSEI, if any of the 47% are living off of the backs of others, those programs should be axed. No one has a birthright to the fruits of my labor. No one.

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    • Robert999
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:33pm

      @Soul Leister, the answer is to restrict voting. First, no one who is receiving socialistic benefits from the government should be allowed to vote. Second, all voters need to pass a civics/government test to be allowed to vote. These steps will prevent the ignorant and dependent from voting and insure a permanent Republican majority.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:47pm

      Zorro,
      I find it very difficult to ride the poor off. Man riding a horse is much easier than riding a human being. Don’t you think?

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:50pm

      Robert999, any person not paying federal income taxes should be permitted to vote in federal elections. If you do not kick in, you should have no say in how it goes out.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:54pm

      47% is probably on the low side. When you take into account programs that people have paid into like S.S. and Medicare, there are at least that many dependent on government to live. People rightfully believe that they have paid for those services even though as in Medicare, they are probably going to take out more than they put in.

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    • may40
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:22pm

      Zorro, get over yourself. I’m sick and tired of the takers expecting handouts because the government promises it to them. The government paralyzes people into thinking they do not need to succeed and those who do succeed are “bad” and don’t deserve what they worked hard for. That’s where the tax tax tax comes in through your communist party comes in. They are nothing more than controlling, lying elitists!

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    • mcmueller
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:27pm

      @Zorro – The only people who would have thought Romney’s comments “sounded like a douchebag” woud be the pubescent Liberal Queers whose skin is too thin from being raised by a gender-confused soccer mom.

      It reminds me of the way a teenager wouold respond to being told the truth about their behavior in a certain situation, and their attempts to lay the blame elsewhere, like the current President and the Democrats do. Romney spoke the truth, and this past election was evidence that half of this country are addicted to government support in the form of a paycheck, food stamps, healthcare or some other support paid for with borrowed money. But that’s OK, the “freebies” are going to end in the next few years, and when we crash and the historians look back on this era 100 years from now, they will admonish Idiots like you for being stupid enough to not see the truth of what Romney was saying for what it was – REALITY.

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    • may40
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:28pm

      Soul Leister…brilliance right there. I know plenty and I mean plenty of “religious”, rather use the word Christian, folk that voted for Romney. No, not because of skin color as all you haters and dividers like to think but because of morals. I know black preachers “real Christians” who would NOT vote for Obama because of his stance on abortion and marriage. THose who have no proof should not speak for others!!!!!! Liberals don’t love and protect the unborn….FACT!!!!!!!

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    • jorge_washington
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:30pm

      @TXANNIE
      “Has anyone actually proven Romney’s statement as wrong? I guess it’s a bad thing to state statistics now. Lie through your teeth, get elected to office….tell the truth, get pilloried. Bad stuff comin’ down the pike…”

      You can start with your family members that partake in SS and Medicare and God forbid, Medicaid. Explain to them that even though they worked all their lives paying for these these services, they are actually not entitled to them for they actually belong to the rich. Call them lazy and irresponsible takers and that you are ashamed of them thanks to the teaching of Beck, Rush, fox news and Romny.

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    • RajCaj
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:34pm

      @Robert999

      I don’t think restricting voting rights based on paid income taxes is the right approach. Just imagine a more punitive & destructive government in place that drives unemployment through the roof and increases the threshold at which one qualifies for federal assistance.

      It would devour more of the middle class and thereby limit voting to only the upper class (which at that point would might be folks in collusion with said government)

      The solution is addressing the education system (sort of where the progressives started). Make Economics & Free Enterprise as important as the the academic holy trinity (reading, writing, arithmetic). Stop sending coaches as the instructors of these classes, and teach kids how the free market works (and how to make it work for you) at an early age. The only way this happens is if you cut the educational power structure off at the head and decentralize the process on a state level. Let the states compete, and watch them adopt best practices else they face brain drain and lower tax revenue.

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    • JRook
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:52pm

      Always wondered why Romney didn’t include the military contractors, medicare intermediaries, IT companies and others who depend on the federal government for the lion share of their revenue and of course lobby constantly so that the spending goes up, regardless of need.

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    • Grover_Standpipe
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:23pm

      Of course, anyone who can think can prove Romneys’ statements wrong. The 47% who don’t pay federal income tax (he just said taxes, but of course there aren’t that many people who don’t pay any taxes) and the 47% who always vote Democrat can’t be identical groups because the about a quarter of the 47% who don’t pay federal income tax are the elderly who tend to be more conservative and more likely to vote Republican than the general population. Therefore, there must be some people who are working taxpayers and always vote Democrat. In fact, there are lots of them.

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    • jorge_washington
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:25pm

      @ROBERT999
      “@Soul Leister, the answer is to restrict voting. First, no one who is receiving socialistic benefits from the government should be allowed to vote. Second, all voters need to pass a civics/government test to be allowed to vote. These steps will prevent the ignorant and dependent from voting and insure a permanent Republican majority.”

      Behold the currently manifestation of the KKK. Only the strong, powerful and rich may vote in order to insure the survival of the white race at all cost. After the Godless, neo-Christians tea party republicans get that out of the way, they will next focus on bring back incandescent light bulbs.

      You you we are very near the end of something when those proclaiming to hold the teaching of Christ are constantly corrupting it by condemning the poor and meek and portraying them as lesser while praising the wealthy in Gods name.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:00pm

      @txannie
      “Has anyone actually proven Romney’s statement as wrong?”

      Yes, in fact Romney was incorrect. Romney was referring to common knowledge that 47% of americans end up paying no income tax. Romney was equating them to Obama voters. But that is not true. In fact, among the poorest americans, Romney got 35% of their vote and would have gotten more of them if he didnt piss them off
      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-exit-poll

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    • uziah51
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:17pm

      prouty is lying with dogs and he will get fleas he is associating with a very low crowd what does that make him hmmmmm

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    • Allseasonangler
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:10pm

      Zorro is a complete uninformed voter. This mindset will continue supporting terrible candidates like the North East Liberal Romney who had the charisma of a pet rock, fake sun tans, with no fresh ideas that could capture the youth vote or swing voters.

      The principals of John McCain Republicanism does not appeal to the majority of Americans today.

      The reason Romney lost was because 47% of Americans identify with Democrats and only 42% identify with Republicans. Moderates are accounted for as well as Independents in this Gallup poll for 2013.

      The only way to land a winner is if the economy tanks, and a major scandal breaks, which will push moderate Democrats and independents to a Libertarian Republican in 2016 who appeals to Democrats and Republicans.

      You support a Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio and Hillary will have a landslide victory in 2016.

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  • MisterSarcastic
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:29am

    He’s forty-ish and still a bartender?

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    • zorro
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:36am

      That’s what I was thinking, too. I’m sure he thinks he should earn a decent “living wage” for his work.

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    • Big Media Bias
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:56am

      I have participated in several political and upscale invite only parties. The contracted catering company and staff were always required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The contracted staff were always placed AWAY from the sitting or standing guests. Waiters and waitresses were required to move and not socialize with guests or they would be removed from the premises.

      A gathering of wealthy donors and presidential candidate should have required everyone to go through a thorough political, financial and criminal background check.

      Romney’s staff are/were idiots. The campaign was run by liberals. I’m surprised the catering staff didn’t post pictures of themselves exposing their private parts with Romney in the background.

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    • 00100111
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:03am

      Yup. He’s just pissed because he’s one of the 47% that don’t matter. Romney’s statements were correct, and that makes him all butthurt.

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    • D-Fence
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:14am

      Don’t cast aspersions on those who aren’t in your approved industry as some kind of loser. That **** really p!sses me off. You elitest F. Remember that it’s these people who work in service industries that cook your food, serve you at grocery stores, fix your cars … who you depend on everyday that give you those items, perform the tasks that you don’t want to do. They are also the majority of people who believe in the principles that this country was founded on, and live and die for this country. By saying crap like this you push people to liberal ideals not because those ideals are correct but rather that you are their enemy.

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    • IKW
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:20pm

      D-Fence, then don’t cast your hypocritical dispersions on those that have worked hard all their lives and have EARNED the ability to live as they please.

      As far as those people who work in the service industries, I don’t “rely” on them for anything. If they don’t want to work, I will go to a location that will work. If they want me to have pity on them for their lack of initiative, I won’t, nor will I feel your guilt for their lack of ambition.

      I have earned the ability through experience and hard work how to cook, clean, sew, fix my car and yes even poor my own glass of water all by myself while producing a product that people actually value for which they are willing to pay. You want to cry for the worthless go ahead, but as you do that if you look around you will probably see a lot of familiar faces….those of us solving our own problems will be enjoying our earned vacation.

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    • TheIggies
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:32pm

      Bartenders for events like that generally make 45k a year. That’s very decent. You’d know this if you ever bothered to do research before opening your mouth of lies and hate.

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    • D-Fence
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:54pm

      IKW This guy who recorded this and claims to be “apolitical” is a liar and maybe is worthless, but I don’t look at people and judge them on their occupation. You confuse my frustration with the original post that I’m replying to, as my desire to nanny people or give them pity. I too, do for myself that which others believe should be done for them. I applaud your ability to be a renaissance man / woman and do for yourself that which others want done for them. I promote those beliefs so that others may gain yours and my perspectives. My frustration is with people who look down on others. Who the hech are they to look down on others? I too have no guilt for people who do not want to work or do not have amibition to better their lives. I “Cry for the worhtless”? Who’s crying for the “worthless”? Your attitude of writing people off as “worthless” (your words) is the sort of thing that tyrants are made of. Nice to know that you’ve written off people. Good luck with your life, and when you’re on vacation, remember to tip the nice bartender or server, although you probably wont.

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    • 22AUTOMATIC
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:33pm

      Interesting how James O’keefe gets taken to court for exposing Planned Parenthood with an undercover camera and this guy gets the “journalist of the year” award for his undercover filming of Mitt Romney.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:50pm

      Defence,
      I cook my own food, clean my own house, mow my own yard, EARN my own money and pay my own way. So eat it.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:21pm

      22AUTOMATIC
      O’Keefe settled out of court and paid $100,000 rather than face trial and risk found guilty of fraud, perjury and a host of other charges that carried a mandatory jail sentence. That’s the difference.

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    • D-Fence
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:58pm

      Mil Dot Who cares what you do! You miss my point. Point is do not degrade a person because of his job. Judge him based on his actions. The person this story is about took the action of taping and dispersing that tape as a political hack. His actions deem him an ***** like your attack on my deems you an *****. For all I care you could be a cespool jumper.

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    • MLeo
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:33pm

      @22AUTOMATIC

      Excellent comment.

      The money will run out. Being dependent on it, without a skill you can use to your benefit, makes you a parasite now and will then, too. Parasites moving from host to host won’t work.

      I will say this about Romney. In my lifetime–and I am not young–I have not known of any Presidential candidate who gives so much of his own money to charity & his church. NONE. That is a whole different mindset and way of living, which America has essentially lost. It would pay for much.

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  • Soul Leister
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:26am

    Drako misspelled “dirtbag”… its not spelled h-e-r-o…

    …a hero saves the day, they don’t pee in half the peoples cornflakes under the cover of darkness (and let others take credit for almost a year, so they don’t loose their part time catering gig as a bartender… that is a dirtbag).

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:35am

      LoL!

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    • encinom
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:31am

      A hero exposes a would leader for the spoiled rich brat he is. A hero shines the light of truth on a man with nothing but contempt for his fellow Americans and was all to eager to send their jobs to China for a quick buck.

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    • landowner
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:40am

      Encinomoronmeteordummy – Wow I never thought you’d finally come around to calling Obama what he is. There is hope for you…. (heh heh heh)

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    • truthnstuff
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:48am

      A typical liberal POS. They all swirl around in the same porcelain punch bowel, only repeating the whooshing sound they hear.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:52am

      “Dirtbag” Prouty was being shrewd. If he had revealed himself as soon as the video came out, Republican counterattack would have descended immediately with everything from allegations that he cheated on a high school Spanish test to his 3 DUIs to his long-expired subscription to The Daily Worker. (Just hypotheticals.) By lying low, he made sure that it was the video, and what it showed about Mitt Romney, that got all the attention. Well played, Mr. Prouty!

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:11pm

      ENCINOM : Interesting : “spoiled rich brat ?” just showed how successful Obama was in rounding up all of the angry, envious found into his radical Left camp: ” spoiled rich brat ?” So funny in terms of the easy live of Barack Obama who is just enabling the dreams of his angry, absent anti-capitalism / imperialism African father become nightmares upon the society which afforded him all of the affirmative benefits of being a bi-racial young man. Barack Obama , the Great Avenger of past injustices and the Great Producer of future injustices. Droned upon America by an international Left which hates, resents, and plans to destroy American capitalism. Been on their agenda since the 50s.

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  • OUT THE REGRESSIVES
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:24am

    You can bet the farm that anyone that outs an unauthorized tape of BHussienO would end up in jail.
    Or worse.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:37am

      Can you imagine just what Mr Ed (The Talking Horse’s Ass) Schultz would say about such a person?

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:52am

      Yoursensei… This is what you must know:

      (this space left vacant… deliberately so… nothing here… nada… no a rational thought to be found)

      It is so.

      ohmmmmmm

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:59am

      … remember that guy named Sinclair (?) who revealed he had had sex with Obama in more than one gay bath house in Chicago… Biden’s attorney general son swore out a warrant for his arrest and he fell off the face of the earth… no media inquiry (they all turned they heads and coughed lightly, nothing to see here).

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:19am

      wish I had one………..I would serve proudly……………

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    • fdraiden
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:25pm

      Nonsense…this you must know!
      An idiot doesn’t know he’s an idiot, an insane person does’t know he’s insane, a moron doesn’t know he’s a moron. Which one of these are you?

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:33pm

      SOUL: Sinclair is probably hidden with Obama’s school records.. amazing what these guys are able to get away with. Deep pockets and deep connections.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:54pm

      This is what you must know:
      Your Sensai has his chicken by the throat.

      It is so.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:23am

    “Prouty steadfastly maintains that his motives in recording the video were apolitical.”

    There is nothing apolitical about editing the news. Prouty is in the thick of it. For him to say he is apolitical is to really mean that he is hyper partisan. Prouty is a liar.

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    • zorro
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:30am

      Don’t blame this guy for what he did. Blame Romney for the stupid way in which he communicated his point. That was stupid but even with that, it’s not what cost him the election. What cost him the election are idiot conservatives that voted (or not) their simplistic “principles” rather than looking at the big picture. Those are the idiots we need to blame.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:37am

      WALK: Lies are the New Truth. This is the era of the Transparent ( wink, wink ) Obama Administration. This is the era of the New Left. The era of the Guy Fawkes masks. The anarchists and the atheists . Up is the new down. Black is the new white . The Alinsky Rule For Radicals now reign. And those rules are changed from the old traditional Golden rules !

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:42am

      If he is “apolitical” then he is “asexual” too… (only his girl like friend “Rosey Palm”, knows for sure) and that means he is not a “hole” but an “*****” to boot.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:44am

      @WALKABOUT

      Do you mean to say someone who reads Mother Jones isn’t apolitical? ;)

      There are good voices in your head and bad voices in your head. The one you heed is the one you feed.

      @ZORRO

      I would think it is extremely important to know if Romney’s comments were accurate.

      Romney lost because of the Lefty smear machine which planted seeds if doubt among many of the quasi-Americans who do not exercise their God given right to vote; they stayed home.

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    • OhSuzieQ
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:49am

      I hope he feels proud. Perhaps he made enought money to leave his second job.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:20am

    It’s pretty obvious that he’s miffed about not getting credit for this, and his effort to clear the record entails an effort to persuade customers, potential customers, potential employers or may be his own boss that he did it altruistically.

    Lib or not, would you EVER hire this bozo? I didn’t think so. He’d better stimulate himself to learn to use a shovel and go out and find a ready-made job. True or not, I hope Corn smacks him down. There’s little worse than a self-promoting two-faced hypocritical lying backstabbing scombehg.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:18am

    The follow on story to this will be the onslaught of death threats against Mr Prouty. Undoubtedly, the majority if not all will be from libs trying to disguise themselves as TEA Party members.

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  • clizbe1
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:17am

    Back in the 60′s we had “the ugly Americans” as they were known in europe. Now we have the “brain dead Americans” due to the advance of the progressive culture. There is only one way to revive the dead…. Gods grace! moveonwithGOD.org Try him you’l like him

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  • Soul Leister
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:16am

    Common liberal thread… Carter brags/takes credit for his grand son getting the scoop… mother jones contributor brags/takes credit for getting the scoop… some faceless DNC agent/operative/bar-tender brags/takes credit for getting the scoop… wait a couple months and there will be another liberal bragging/taking credit for the scoop… its all about them them them… the story is a side bar (the potato chip to the “dip”).

    Want to impress me, stop making the stories about you (the “not to be trusted” hunters of “truth(?)”)… if you aren’t likewise doing hit pieces on democrats… then you are just a lowlife propagandist hoping to get noticed by the least reputable group (otherwise you would be an equal opportunity revealer of truths)… but you have proven incapable of being able to do that.

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:16am

    Just another left wing slimeball who begins lying the minute his eyes open in the morning. Maggots are higher on the social scale than he is.

    Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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    • encinom
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:28am

      So, replaying Romney’s own words, demonstrating his contempt for the working class of America is what the right considers lying. The fact is Romney was a apoiled rich boy upset he had to deal with the uncleaned masses and the tape exposed this truth.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:57am

      Demonstrating contempt?

      No, speaking the truth. There was not contempt in his voice. He was stating the facts as he saw them.
      You cannot show contempt by analysing inflection or stress on this or that syllable.

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    • Watchman2013
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:40pm

      encinom, working class, Really? what tool you are.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:29pm

      ENCINOM , oh young tool of the radicals : Romney actually created JOBS for the working class in the private sector ..not just Obama jobs for government employees paid for by the sucker tax payer ! DUH. Wake up young tool. We taxpayers have !

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  • Barneyfyfe22
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:15am

    Bartender…. perfect job for passing the kool ade

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  • ProudCapitalist
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:14am

    I never understood why Romney did not proudly stand by his statement. The 47% have a vested interest in increasing taxes and spending. We should eliminate the income tax and replace it with a consumption tax on everything sold. Seeing the tax on every purchase receipt, and the tax rate constantly increasing, would be a wake-up call. The only way to halt the incessant demand for government money is to have everyone feel the pain of the spending.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:04pm

      The reason it is wrong is because many of that 47% vote republican. Many are elderly. Many are loyal republican poor folk, such as white people in alabama. Furthermore, people move in and out of that 47% category, so to write them all off as blood suckers is not true and not good politically

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  • sligresda
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:13am

    i read somewhere that this guy is a bartender, which made me chuckle, because as an ex bartender i know that unless i was tipped on a credit card i didnt report ANY tips, and mind you i made about 300- 350 on any given friday or saturday night. on weeknights i made about 200-250. so i guarantee you, depending on what kinda bar he worked at, he was paying little to no taxes on his income. so im not sure what his beef is as he seems to be exactly the type of person romney was talking about…..oh wait, i guess that is exactly why it upset him so. he was being called out.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:39am

      WANGO, Bwahahahahahaha! The crowd you hang with! Does that ever say a lot about you.

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    • truthnstuff
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:58am

      YoSenslessIdiot,

      This is what you must know.

      Stop polishing your wang and puffing on others, you could become brain dead. Ohh too late.

      It is sooooooooooooooo!

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  • FastJimmy3
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:13am

    The coward finally appears. Took you long enough to grow some nads there. O.k. you have had your fifteen minutes now crawl back under your rock, from where you came.

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:11am

    I thought it was Carters grandson? President Obama, speaking at his campaign-turned advocacy group, contradicted media reports that his primary focus right now is setting up House Democrats to retake the majority in the 2014 midterms.

    “It’s not about 2014,” Obama told Organizing for Action this evening, per the pool report. “I actually wanna govern, at least for a couple of years.” He added that “If a senator or congressman from a swing district is about to take a tough vote on immigration or guns, they need to feel supported.”

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    • carhouse
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:14am

      Yes Carter himself thanked his grandson, so what the heck is going on, why hide the truth even thought that what libs do best, why though?

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  • neverending
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:06am

    Used to be there was a slimeball here and there and far in between and now they infest our country like a bunch of rats and who else to find all of them none other then the leader of the rats MSNBC.

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  • elosogrande
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:05am

    Most everyone in the press was indignant over what Romney said, but the reason for the indignation was that what he said was true. We have allowed the socialists and the communists of the world to buy the American voter and elect their fellow travelers.

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    • YOURSENSEI
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:32am

      Mr or Ms ELOSOGRANDE,

      This is what y must know:

      Your problem isn’t what the press thought. It’s the fact that the majority of American thought what Mitt said was outrageous. And we voted accordingly. You were willing to ignore it because, well, you live in a world of rationalization and cognitive dissonance.

      It is so.

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    • Dethklok91
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:17pm

      Mr. and/or Mrs. YOURSENSEI,

      This is what you must know:

      The truth always hurts.

      It is so.

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    • qualityrkc
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:23pm

      We didn’t vote for Romney bc he thinks half the country including my vet brother and grandpa are mooches for living off the benefits they earned and not having any taxable income! Ironic part is we are all lifelong republicans. Bc we believe in small government and justice we could not bring ourselves to vote for Romney.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:01pm

      QUALITY: So your love for small government allowed you to help the Big Brother radical Democrats win ? Wow, that makes no sense ! Most of you so-called Libertarians who comment here are much more in tune with the radical Democrats who greatly appreciate your help . It’s the war, the military, the cops, the drugs, Israel, and the capitalism issues which mean you will NEVER be, nor are now, part of the Republican Party. You are in the Left tent and will so remain. All of your divisive commentary here is just more of what you angry ones share with the radical Left.

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  • CaliforniaScreaming
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:04am

    This stuff cuts both ways – hope he has another job. Who the hell wants an hourly paid snitch in their home, regardless of political stripe?

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:04am

    Prouty should be the poste child for the obama failures and treason. He wants credit? We will give him credit for every mistake obama makes.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:58am

      Dream on. Obama would have won even without the Romney video. The only thing that might have sunk him would have been a second debate performance as bad as his first.

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 3:40pm

      Obama stole the election by election fraud so maybe you are right.

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  • Firemanjon
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:00am

    This guy is nothing but an attention seeking mole. Funny thing is, that Mitten’s was telling the truth!

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  • FlagWavingPatriot
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:00am

    I never understood the controversy or hand-wringing over what Romney said. He was absolutely correct.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:09am

      Agree. The MSM ran their usual twisted smear, and the Romney / Republicans were too polite / ineffective in stating an articulate retort. You don’t beat Chicago street without an equally strong response.

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    • hi
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:21am

      Agree
      I thought it was the turning point in our favor

      Until everyone pays, this country will be ruined.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:29am

      HI: Agree. Love the ” social justice” twisted logic that ” the rich don’t pay their fair share,” while some are allowed to not pay any and get tax credits . Flat tax. Everybody has a dog in the fight.

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    • YOURSENSEI
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:29am

      Mr or Ms BARBER2,

      This is what you must know:

      So you’re telling me that Mitt was supported by “Friends of Hamas”? Typical media smear is right.

      It is so

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:27pm

      Senseless: Nothing like an homage to Alinsky with the Hamas / Romnet smear . Run that one by your hero Al Jazeera Gore !

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:24pm

      it is stupid to call 47% of americans lazy and obama supporters when many of them are not

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:56am

    Awe… he did not receive the credit & glory. that is why he’s crying now.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:51am

    “But Prouty says he thought it was important that people heard Romney and knew what he was really thinking.”

    Now if we could only get the idiots of this country to see what Obama is really thinking…

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  • carhouse
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:50am

    This is not the guy ther libs originally said got the tape.The original claim came from the nephew or cousin of a lib.
    also
    the 47% comment is more than a comment it is a FACT,
    why are the Repub shying away from exposing the truth to get some understanding as to why this country appears to be voluntarily imploding on itself.???!!!

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    • Marine25
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:10am

      Keep telling yourself that half the American people refuse to take responsibility for their lives, that Romney was stating a fact, I am sure that will lead to even more conservative electoral victories. He insulted veterans, the disabled, life-long workers on Social Security and the working poor. Game over.

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    • vendingdude
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:15am

      …and since the ‘election’ is over, there’s no reason at all not to blare the message all over again to fight O’s idiocy!

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    • vendingdude
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:18am

      @marine – apparently you enjoy taking things out of context. That’s not the group he was referring to, but that sure is the message the MSM wanted you to hear

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:23am

      Marine25

      “life-long workers on Social Security”

      I have seen stories of life long workers in the socialist paradise of Sweden being turned out of their homes in order to save costs or to get additional money from the federal government for the local government.

      Life long workers of/on Social Security means that you were scr/wed. People have been turned out of their homes top makes room for refugees. There are always an endless stream of those. The federal government pays more for housing them. To cut costs move 80, 90 or 103 year old people from their care homes to other homes. a 50% death rate is acceptable. It saves even more money. More care is taken in transporting a dolphin than than elderly. Who cares how much they payed into the system.

      The social Security system should be dismantled over time & replaced. The government as middle man is scheisse.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:35am

      Marine 25

      Do some recon. See what liberals do when balancing the books gets difficult. Look it up

      Grum, Sweden
      Annika Lomarker
      Torbjorn Bood
      Ake Wigren

      Oskarshhamn. Sweden
      Anna Svenson age: 103 Care Home

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:02pm

      If what Romney said is true, then why all the squirming and fidgeting on the right over a video showing him saying it?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:51am

      And Marine25 does not respond.

      If you get a benefit from the government it is not socialism, but it may be considered paternalist & that is dangerous. After the government takes its handling fee and CUT, you will get back less than if you had done it yourself.

      All the liberals point to Sweden and other Nordic countries as a shining example of a mixed economy. Well it is not. It is not different than the Soviet Union. It will implode. All it needs is a little more time. Obviously these people do not reads the news from over there.

      Dump the UPI, AP & Reuters. Dump the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, USA Today and read the news directly. Translation of web pages & English editions of local newspapers make it possible. Get off you GD @$$e$.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:48am

    Prouty is a true American hero.

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:03am

      Prouty is the cause of our suffering…and you are a enabler of the suffering under obama.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:12am

      Maybe you should try to put him in for a Bronze Star.

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    • FastJimmy3
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:13am

      He’s a gutless coward.

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:13am

      If taking a hidden video of someone is all it takes to be considered a hero, you must positively worship hackers who hijack webcams and secretly tape girls undressing, huh?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:14am

      All Romney said was that you can’t beat Santa Claus.

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    • vendingdude
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:19am

      locked – HAHAHA good one

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    • Soul Leister
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:19am

      Drako misspelled “dirtbag”… its not spelled h-e-r-o…

      …maybe he meant to spell partisan hack or bartender that cannot be trusted or etc etc…

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    • YOURSENSEI
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:28am

      This is what you must know:

      You chronic guessers should be praising the guy, right? You agree with what Mitt said, right? Instead you are attacking the guy. Why? I’ll tell you why – because you lost. And it is an especially bitter pill to swallow because you were all so dead certain that Romney would win. So you’re going to spend the next four years whining. Well, go right ahead. We’re used to it. Know what else we’re used to? Winning national elections.

      It is so.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:14am

      Locked

      Your statement is quotable.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:41am

      What I read here a lot is that what Romney said was true, which is only half true. So let’s ask, who exactly are “the 47%?”

      Are they the people who pay no Federal income taxes? A majority of these actually do work, take responsibility for their lives, and in no way see themselves as victims. They simply make so little that they qualify for the earned income tax credit. Now,I’d be all in favor of doing away with the EITC, if only to deprive the ravening right-wing pack of its excuse for endless whining about those who “pay no taxes.” But most of its beneficiaries are not in fact lazy loafers. Some of them probably even vote Republican.

      Or by “the 47%” do you mean people who get all or some of their income in the form of Federal cash or subsidies like food stamps, “Obama phones” and all the other stuff you like to complain about? These of course do include Social Security Disability fakers and methhead moms with 9 children who still contrive to drive fancy cars and vacation in Aruba. But they also include veterans and recipients of regular Social Security and Medicare. These are not welfare. They truly are “entitlements” in the best sense, not Federal largesse but support one is “entitled” to as a result of having served or having paid into their funding.

      Prouty gave us a window into the soul of Mitt Romney, who seems to think people only vote their material interests, and who expressed contempt for half the American people. Such a man did not deserve t

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:45am

      to be president.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:21pm

      Will this bartender dude get prosecuted like the guy who taped the ACORN scammers ?

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:07pm

      Apparently there were others with cameras at the same gathering, and no one told Prouty he could not have one. Nevertheless, he does allow that he positioned it so the Secret Service couldn’t see it. This does not speak well for the Secret Service! Maybe they had instructions to let Romney’s fat cat prospects use cameras, but not “the help.” On the other hand, at least one of the “ACORN scammers” called the police as soon as O’Keefe and his pimp act had left the building.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:24pm

      LLOYD: You just can’t help pushing that rich fat cat divisive stuff . Obama loves you.

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