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

Mar. 14, 2013 9:43am Mytheos Holt

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:

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:

Why We Need Labor Unions After All finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ti… Healthy Capitalism Is Not Just About Maximizing Near-Term Profits.

— @AnneOnymous670 (@AnneOnymous670) December 5, 2012

Fox News Pushing Karl Rove, Dick Morris Off The Air huff.to/Vj280p Merry Christmas Guys!

— @AnneOnymous670 (@AnneOnymous670) December 5, 2012

@nra LaPierre Is An Evil Man.

— @AnneOnymous670 (@AnneOnymous670) December 21, 2012

Gun Lobby: Blood Money to John McCain = $543,386 opensecrets.org/industries/sum…

— @AnneOnymous670 (@AnneOnymous670) December 19, 2012

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

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)

YoshiFD3S
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:55pm
Paul101,

Spoken like a true racist.

You disgust me.

I’m Jewish. In terms of politicial opinions, my beliefs would fall in line with conservatism.

The fact that you feel there’s some kind of underhandedness with Israel or our relationship with the ONLY democratic and free nation in the Middle East….just, yeah.

Tell me another Middle-eastern country where Jews AND gentiles can live in peace without fear of being murdered for their beliefs or just for their ethnicity.

Your ignorance is only outweighed by your arrogance. Clown.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:20pm
  YOSF: This guy is just one of the “whatever” who pose as conservatives here. Their obvious anti-Isreal , anti-military, anti-cop, anti-religion, anti-capitalism, and general anti-Americanism is just as sign that these Trolls are just members of the Far Left camp who hide in the OWS-styled shadows and are doing the Divide the Republicans for the radical Democrats. These guys are about as ” conservative” as Lady Gaga. But they do love to smear and divide.
  
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Robert999
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:27pm
Romney was right, America is divided between the Makers and the Takers (at least 47%). This guy should be prosecuted for intruding on Romney’s privacy. In fact, he helped give the election to Obama, and is a traitor to America, but I guess he can’t be prosecuted for treason.

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welovetheUSA
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:17pm
Romney could have turned it around had he wanted to..the truth hurts..but people…poor people need to learn who pays their bills…and its not Obama or the government its us……the working tax payer.

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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:42pm
  Your disdain for the working poor and your ignorance of what they go through is what will continue to lose elections for your party. Nobody is going to vote for the finger waving rich guy.
  
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Watchman2013
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 1:04pm
The disgusting thing is that Mitt Romney is a good man and WE allowed the intolerant and hypocritical people on the left and the media to demonize this man. WE should all be ashamed.

Look at what we got in his place, all the bad parts of both carter and nixon, good luck America, we are going ot need it.

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BehindTheMouth
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:59pm
Scott D Prouty
Claim & Edit
Save Address to Mailer

Home (781) 982-9081

76 Holly Berry Ln

Hanover, MA 02339-1140

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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:54pm
Every state with voter ID went for Romney. In states without voter ID, there was as much as 110% for Obama??! The voting machines are owned by companies favorable to Democrats.
The fact the video camera was planted on a table almost behind a plant, facing the speaker, is ample proof he intended to get any sound bites that could be used to defeat Romney.
A bartender planting a video camera – is that legal?

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- barber2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:23pm
  JEAN: Knowing that the radical Left, filled with so many legal eagles, has been able to keep Obama’s school records under wraps for this long, I am sure they have worked out all of the legal issues involved in this which may be why it took so long for this to emerge .
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:45pm
  If you have evidence of election fraud please give it. On the other hand there is evidence of a mormon girl committing voter fraud for romney then trying to lie about it. Video evidence…reality has such a liberal bias dont it?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:22pm
  RKC: Guess you must be the Troll Of the Day . There is plenty of evidence of voter fraud from the old lady who was videoed saying she voted at least twice for Obama as well as the election results with more than 100% of the possible voters. Isn’t there some Organizing For Action event missing your efforts ? Oh, wait..maybe this is your mission .
  
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BehindTheMouth
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:52pm
Independent? ********

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wrturner
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:47pm
Hopefully this will never get hired as a bartender again. He ran his mouth and put his employer in a embarrassing position. Employers don’t like to be put in embarrassing positions by their employees. I would fire him and do my best to blackball him. He violated a trust and deserves the consequences his treachery has wrought. You’re a Mr. Prouty, and I hope the evil you have helped perpetrate haunts you til the end of your days. There may just be a lake of fire in your future…

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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:47pm
  lol he took a video of a politician speaking about politics and you want him to burn in hell…how christian of you!
  
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barber2
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:39pm
Obama won by dividing the country into the ” rich ” and the rest. Obama won on a negative ticket. He proved that anger and resentment now win elections. And the Obama radical Democrats have continued to divide and antagonize this country. Remember the Zimmerman deal ? He is an angry man just like his absent daddy and the angry, black , male Marxist mentors who influenced him. Obama is a child of the Black Power Movement of the 60s. The radical Democrats continue to stir up division over race, guns, and social class.

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- qualityrkc
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:50pm
  Obama won by dividing the rich and poor? But we are here talking about a video of Romney discussing the difference between rich and poor and he even went as far as to put a number on it. So if Obama won by dividing the rich and poor then why did Romney lose by dividing the rich and poor?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:07pm
  republicans won in 2004 based on fear of terrorists. Obama won in 2008 and 2012 based on fear of republicans
  
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trigger
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:23pm
Romney just spoke the truth. he should of brought it up first.

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Sarah_Palin_Is_God
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:06pm
The man is an American hero. I would to invite him over to my house in Alaska for some dinner and fresh pie. God Bless him.
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Soul Leister
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:55am
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 media’s portrayal of Romney supporters as all white racists… and only 2% of the clearly defective black vote, their only non racists(?)… mindful less than half of all whites including Hispanic Caucasians are supposedly racist AND 98% OF ALL BLACKS CLEARLY ARE RACISTS, by the media’s own definition… which is good so long as they vote for democrats?)… remember 4 million fewer republicans cast ballots in 2012 than 2008.

The single reason Romney actually lost was the so called religious right stayed home… the protestants (Methodists, Baptists, etc) couldn’t “cotton” to vote for a Mormon because he isn’t one of them(?)… and its important to note all the democrats that didn’t vote for a Mormon either are cut from the same cloth (SECTist hypocrites)… if not that then those 4 million republicans from 2008 must have realized they were part of that “freeloader 47%’ers” group Romney alluded to and didn’t want their freeride to be curtailed…

…sad but true.

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Seymour
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:43am
Thank you for identifying yourself Mr. Scott Prouty, Hanover, MA 02339-1140. Yes, we have the rest of the information as well. Source: refdesk.com

You are now listed in the first chapter of The Book of Progressives. Congrats

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:29am
Oh…..wah……I lost sleep…….I struggled…..before releasing……..the video……and then…….wah……I just had to come “out” with it for…..you know…..slurp……..lick rest of booze on counter……….tequila shot…….eyes glazed……my civic…….duty…….Jimmy Carter wannabe……….and then……uh………my eyes……so bloodshot…..MSNBC………ABC…….whatever the hell……I am on…….talking…….must to…….thud……..

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:14pm
  Prouty was being smart. He didn’t “come out” before the election because that would have put the spotlight on him rather than on what Mitt Romney said, and what it showed about Romney’s contempt for half the people of the nation he aspired to lead. It’s possible that Mother Jones or the Democrats advised him to lay low. If so, it was good advice. Now you can slime Prouty all you want. It won’t matter. As for Romney, he slimed himself.
  
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- Ailius
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:04am
  Yes, Romney *did* slime himself. That’s precisely my point. He shouldn’t have been the Republican nominee in the first place. He won because the media, when they had dirt on him, decided not to show it until later. There were plenty of republican nominees whose campaigns ended for similar comments. Romney’s should have too.
  
  This kind of crap is why this country got so damn partisan in the first place, and why presidential elections look like an episode of ‘Dumb and Dumber’. The primaries aren’t competitive enough. That goes for the democrats too – I remember in 2008 there being 7 candidates on the stage other than Clinton or Obama who were never given serious consideration. Many of us don’t even bother to defend our guy anymore – we just point to the other one and act like two wrongs make a right.
  
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Ailius
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:27am
Apolitical my ass….This guy isn’t only partisan, the media he sold this to is in the business of picking presidents for the American people.

This man recorded this video on May 17th, technically during the Republican primary even though he was declared the ‘presumptive nominee’. An apolitical organization interested in telling the American people the truth would have released it May 18th. It wasn’t released until September 17th. That behavior suggests it was tactically withheld to make Romney look good in the primary but to make him look bad in October.

If it was released May 18th, the Republican party would have taken a step back, the primary might have gone to convention, and the people might have nominated somebody else. I for one didn’t get an effective vote in the primary as Romney had already been declared the winner by the time my state rolled around. But, in reality, Romney was *not* a strong candidate and the powers that be were withholding information.

So why do Florida bartenders get to dictate who the Republican nominee is? Doesn’t my vote count too?

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Really2012
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:24am
That is what is so funny about this. It is the absolute truth. about 47% of the people want the government to control them. They have been assimilated… Kool-aid heads..

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dadsrootbeer
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:17am
The only problem with this secret unbelievable video is the Romney is right.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 4:08pm
  how is he right? Yes, there are 47% that do not pay federal taxes, but they are not all obama supporters. In fact, 1/3 of them voted for mitt romney in the last election. Many of them are people on SS. Many of them are just poor white people (a huge republican voting block)
  
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americanfirst
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:06am
I think if Romney wanted to – they’d be a defamation suit here.

There where damages incurred based on the illegal (without his consent) videotaping of an American citizen.

Seriously – if it was me videotaping you without your consent (right, wrong or indifferent) and I shared it with a candid world (thru whatever medium) and part of the product of that act was that you incurred a loss, or jeopardized a relationship, lost a job or otherwise – would there be legitimate grounds for a legal suit for damages renderred?

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- barber2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:10pm
  Didn’t ACORN pursue charges against their video ? Conservatives are always too polite and orderly. That is one of the reason that the Left has been allowed to bully society . That and the MSM in the pocket of the Left. And the fact that the Left NEVER stops pushing their agenda – look at Organizing For Action . Never ending PUSH..SHOVE..BULLY.
  
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americanfirst
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:00am
Mitt Romney was right!! There should be NO question about that fact at this point.

If there is a doubt then let’s be clear… you are either inherently stupid (really) or dangerously naive. Serious statement!

Mitt Romney represents the proven standard of American democracy. Belief in a Constitution (what we stand for defined). The idea that a life of principle (the notion that we as individuals should live with a self-imposed set of standards) creates a society of principles – is a society in ascension. The “established” standard chosen for America from it’s inception was/is Christian. (Not contestable!)
This idea goes beyond the idea of an individual making good choices to a society and it’s leaders basing their choices on the “same set” of standards. Very important! No society can exist with multiple sets of competing standards. Fundamental.
The American ideal of self-reliance (the value or idea of “earning” the quality of your life based on your own efforts and merits – founded again in Christian thought).
Capitalism – the notion of developing a good or service and adds value to society at a cost that generates a yield that pays for one’s expenses and then develops a profit. That, in turn, allows you to generate an economic cycle that brings economic stability, not just to self, but to others in your community (common unity).
The idea that this set of values and beliefs was founded in America but is for the world.

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nonofmybiznez
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:49am
Nothing Romney said in that video was not true. Some of those people are gaming the system and they won’t vote to stop the free ride. That 47 percent cannot be swayed from their opinions. Romney had to appeal to the other 53%. Of which, another 40%+ were Republicans. Really the only ones he had to go after were the 5-10% undecided. Next time we have to do better. The Dems don’t help the poor or the minorities. You must do better at getting your message out there to the people that need help. The people you are fighting for or they will not have a chance at a future with this administration.

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slr4528
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:49am
I wonder if this jerk tapes his patrons when they are drunk and then threatens them for money. Whoever would hire this pig is nuts and people should not use the catering service in Florida that employed this smuck. The conservatives and the Republicans need to play the same game that the Dems play when it comes to aggressively attacking their enemies with lawsuits and boycotts.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:14pm
  SLR: I thought the same thing. This guy is toxic. Blackmail possibilities since he obviously does not have a privacy monitor for the type of work he does .
  
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solo1
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:40am
Scott Prouty is fat little liberal turd. A useful idiot. He didnt struggle with anything, like every other liberal cockroach their worthless lives revolve around ther “gotcha” moment.
Nice work Scott you get to abate your white guilt for a few more weeks and youve damned your children and grandchildren to a life less then yours. But your a liberal crap stain so we can imagine you live in a one bedroom basement apartment.
Liberals stinking up everything they touch since 1800.

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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:15pm
  Holy Tomoley! Are you the last Federalist?
  
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cgent47
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:39am
Romney at least had the balls to tell the truth. America is doomed beacuse there are more takers than workers.

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- andrew36
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:12am
  Actually, he didnt really have the balls. What he said wasnt meant to go public, and he when it did he didnt exactly stand by what he said. It seems to me he didnt really have the balls at all.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:45pm
  ANDREW: Agree. Romney should have said it. Explained it. Stood up to the usual Democrat Media Assassination Squad. And stuck with it. Bullies like our radical Democrats need to be confronted.
  
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Soul Leister
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:37am
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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Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:31am
good little useful idiot.
It would have one thing to have had Romney be a good candidate.

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