Did you hear that Mitt Romney was booed today during his appearance before the NAACP? If not, Twitchy has a handy roundup of headlines for you.
Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins finds it curious that liberals simply didn’t take a moment to stop and enjoy the schadenfreude. Well, they did take a minute, but not much more.
Pelosi tells Bloomberg Romney's #naacp speech was "a calculated move on his part to get booed" http://t.co/Gv1bXojg
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) July 11, 2012
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Bloomberg Television’s Peter Cook that “it was a calculated move on [Romney’s] part to get booed.” Cook passed on what would seem the obvious follow-up: why?
On his MSNBC program “PoliticsNation,” the Rev. Al Sharpton theorized that the boos were calculated to “play to the right-wing.”
now THIS is why i watch #msnbc: didnt dawn on me until al sharpton just told me that Romney asked for boos bc he called it #obamacare
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) July 11, 2012
Coppins also reports that suspended Politico writer Joe Williams feels “vindicated” by the boos.
https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/223183467226202114
We’re not quite following the logic there either. Williams claimed that Romney was only comfortable around “white folks,” and yet it was Romney and not President Obama who attended the convention — and received a standing ovation.
@mckaycoppins huh? Did he watch it?? Even D critics have called it one of Romneys best moments in content and delivery
— Stuart Schulzke (@Schulzke) July 11, 2012
@mckaycoppins I have a theory that Obama is uncomfortable/cant relate with white Mormons. Don't see him booking any speeches in Salt Lake.
— Troy (@troykburnett) July 11, 2012
But he didn't at any point appear uncomfortable in the venue at all. RT @mckaycoppins @Schulzke He was booed 3 times, for 3 different lines.
— Cindy Cooper (@CindyCoops) July 11, 2012
Perhaps Pelosi was right, and Romney actually was seeking out the boos to “embolden” him.
https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/223190063729737728
So, if Romney was trying to elicit boos, the applause during his defense of traditional marriage must have been … a failure? Maybe he should try harder, or get some help.
I can see @Msnbc story now — Mitt Romney hired union thugs to boo him at @NAACP
— TXN_1st (@Prairie_Patriot) July 12, 2012
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