Correction: Apparently, Bob McCarty Writes was suckered by the article in the Miami Herald cited in the original version of this post (see below). After you read this post, take a look at the Conservative Gladiator’s comment below for the accurate coverage of the Mitt Romney address in Miami. Still, we must keep the former Massachusetts governor on the roster of the Warning Labels On Politicians campaign. Why? Because he’s still a politician.
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If you need to know another reason why Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears on the roster of the Warning Labels On Politicians campaign, here it is:
Apparently, Romney doesn’t know Spanish — especially the Cuban-American flavor of the language. In a Miami Herald article, reporter Beth Reinhard pointed out that the former Massachusetts governor — and Mormon — who was raised in Michigan “bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami” and “mistakenly associated Fidel Castro’s trademark speech-ending slogan — Patria o muerte, venceremos! — with a free Cuba.” She further observed, “Listeners didn’t laugh. They winced.“
Supporters of the Warning Labels On Politicians campaign and it’s slogan — “Because nothing is more dangerous than a politicians” – believe Romney should display Warning: Mitt Romney labels on all advertising, literature and signage related to his 2008 campaign.
If you believe the same, wear and/or display your own Warning: Mitt Romney merchandise throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, especially at Romney’s campaign-related events.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Conservative Gladiator // Mar 19, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Here it is verbatim:
“I said at the outset that the threat in Latin America is unprecedented. I say that because the Castros have a second tyrant and he has great wealth, from oil. We must stand just as firm against caudillos like Hugo Chavez, tutored by Fidel Castro. Chavez and Castro are brothers in blood, intent on personal gratification at the expense of their people. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro have stolen the phrase – ‘Patria o muerte, venceremos.’ This phrase should not be used by dictators, but by liberators.
“There are two spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere. One is dark, bellicose and spreads misery by denying people basic freedoms; the other shines like a powerful light, is peaceful and wants only for its people to live in liberty and prosper.
From what I see it says that DICTATORS shouldn’t be using this phrase and that it should be used by LIBERATORS.
What’s the deal? Sounds like some propoganda from the left to me.
2 ouroboros // Mar 20, 2007 at 10:46 am
Conservative Gladiator, what’s your source on that? (i.e., I’d like to cite a neutral news organization or video from which that transcript was obtained). Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
3 Conservative Gladiator // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I will tell you what I told Bob McCarty who asked where I got it from…
“Yes. I got the transcripts from his (Romney’s) website. I also watched portions of the speech from a news website the day after the speech and they played exerpts which included him talking about Castro and Chavez and I remember him saying words to this effect but it didn’t ring to me that it was an issue at the time. My wife is Dominican and I have a friend who’s Cuban with whom I share my opinions and information about Romney with and neither thought at that time he said anything worth wincing about. In fact my friend from Cuba said that he was impressed.
“After reading these stories and blogs, I did some homework today trying to find video of the speech on Youtube and to get more info and there wasn’t anything on there so I tried to find the transcripts the only place that I could find it was on the Mitt Romney website.
“There was a blogsite that did have video (or at least I thought). lt looked like it was from YouTube but it isn’t available anymore…hmmmmm?”
I just want to ask why I’m the focus of this at this point after all I pointed out what someone else was saying giving only a portion of the truth at best – a tactic that anyone who is familiar with how these people in the MSM operate. I like to know where this information comes from and I don’t even pretend to know this Beth Breinhard person but I would venture to guess that she has liberal ties that make her a non-objective journalist. Unlike her I’m not trying to claim objectivity.
I’m not trying to be defensive here but rather go on attack mode by saying how utterly ashamed I am at the way this woman “Beth” put this article out. She didn’t put the whole quote in context and beyond that NO ONE is questioning her sources and it’s pretty ironic that people from the left AND THE RIGHT use her and her column as the bludgeoning tool here against Mitt Romney. It’s the same playbook in MSM circles.
Unlike Beth, I am at least honest in stating that I support Mitt Romney. If you want a “neutral” source then go to Beth Breinhard (chuckle). I’d like to see how “neutral” her sources are, I can at least admit that I’m a strong supporter of the Conservative Movement…nothing to hide here and I’m sure Beth isn’t trying to hide anything either. She just knows that what she says can go unchallenged and even be used for whatever purposes it can serve.
4 ouroboros // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:43 am
CG, you misunderstand me. I wasn’t challenging you at all, just asking what your source was. Because I wanted to use the transcript to convince people who had already bought into the Miami Herald story, I wanted to be sure of my sources.
Since the people I wanted to convince are partisans on the other side of the fence, it have improved my rhetorical position if the transcriber was unaffiliated with the campaign, and ideally not a Romney partisan.
There’s nothing wrong with being partisan; it’s just easier to convince people with some kinds of sources than with others.
I hope the sentiment in which I made my request is now more clear.
Thank you for looking on YouTube; I also came up empty.
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