He should have taken credit for the ad, it is factually accurate.

I haven’t seen the ad… Thats probably not my ad…I’m Mitt Romney and I approved this message.

Was he lying or does he approve ads he hasn’t seen?

Yes, my friend.n

I have a friend from Canada Guy Bergeron, a French Canadian. He was raised in French by his parents. In Catholic school, the nuns would teach everything in French, and only take out the English books when the inspector came to school. He told me that he had told his father, why did you harm us like that. We live in an English speaking country, and we were harmed by not knowing English.

Of course he hasn’t seen it. It is a radio ad. (Your Mitticism for today.)

Both.

Presumably he said this to you in English. 

I’m not sure how this comment is related to the topic, though.  Is French a ghetto language too?

Is there an “in context” clip of what Newt said?  That would be helpful to see if 1) Newt never said it, 2) it was out of context, or 3) Mitt is outright lying.

Seems to me that would be part of the story- busting on Mitt is well-and-good, but I would honestly like to know who is telling the truth or fudging the truth, or lying here.

I posted the story, to back up Gingrich’s contention, that not being taught English, is a disadvantage to you. That was what my French Canadian friend thought.

Right. But that would have taken energy, & some passion for the process, & he simply doesn’t have it, given his contempt for the clowns he’s up against & for the game show host that’s moderating this snooze fest.
As you see here, there’s lots & lots of room for argument about this exchange. Newt gets to argue he didn’t mean Spanish in particular – which is supposed to make it better somehow? That Spanish is just AMONG the “languages of the ghetto”? – & being able to point to his apology way back in the dark ages of two thousand & aught eight – which begs the question of why one apologizes for being ‘misinterpreted’ in your saying something that was INTENDED as a dog whistle in the first place; Romney gets to argue he didn’t SAY Newt called Spanish a ghetto language – when by EITHER interpretation he clearly did say that; the argument Newt was making was between “the” & “a” – when Romney’s ad clearly DID say just that, and indeed that ad was CORRECT in having said so in the way it did – because Romney’s too busy or too FREAKING BORED WITH THIS WHOLE PROCESS to actually register what it is he’s “approving” in the first place (I mean, how could we ever be sure that Romney didn’t co-ordinate with his SuperPAC when he can’t remember co-ordinating with his OWN campaign; he’s not stupid, & not brain-injured like Governor Brewer – so either he’s lying or his just doesn’t really care about the stupid, boring process in the first place; my choice: a little of both – if Mitt can’t find it right away in his button down brain, the default instruction is  Does. Not. Com. Pute. En. Ter. De. Fault. Pro. Gram. Did. Not. Hap. Pen. De. Ny. De Ny. Back. Up. In. Er. Ror. Did. Hap. Pen. Did. Not. Com. Pute. En. Ter. Sec. Ond. De. Fault. Pro. Gram. Not. Worth. Get. Ting. Ang. Gry. Ov. Er. Wag. Head. Sm. ile. Rue. Fol. Ly. Like. They. Are. All. Ass. Clowns. But neither of them could give a crap about being honest or right or even consistent. Newt’s getting pretty old & he’s in poor physical shape so he’s starting to tire of this process (The South Carolina debate & victory acted like adrenalin, but Newt’s brain not longer manufactures much adrenalin on its own, and he wasted whatever he had lined up for Monday night in restraining himself, so ever since he’s really really needed a hit of meth or a prescription for Adderall. It’s not just that his campaign is fading, HE is fading. And meanwhile Mitt’s being contemptuous of this entire process from day 1, to the point where he doesn’t even particularly care that Blitz goes after him with one his characteristically half-blitzed challenges. 

I’m sort of getting into the idea of President Mitt, in the sense that it’s so obvious that he’d hold everyone in such complete contempt, it would feed into a huge bipartisan uprising & a sense of national  purpose in commiting to have him deported to the Caymans or into a Swiss bank account. 

Neither: he doesn’t remember what he doesn’t really care about. It’s a normal human response.

As long as it has the tag-line “I’m Mitt Romney and I endorse this message” he has to take responsibility

He can’t try to pull a Ron Paul

He apologized to the Spanish community (in Spanish, mind you) for the comments. Sure it wasn’t targeted towards Spanish people, Newt? And even if the comments were about all languages, does that make them any less insensitive? 

Good job on CNN for the follow up! Makes for a better debate.

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“Wolf Blitzer Busts Mitt Romney Over Anti-Newt Gingrich ‘Ghetto Language’ Ad”
Did he?  Was he like boom, boom busted?  A reasonable person watching the debate would probably write that Blitzer corrected Romney.  But, a mediaite writer would say he got “pwned” or “destroyed” or “boom, boom busted”. 

“former Gov. Mitt Romney tried to play coy when asked about an ad”
Neat projection but he seemed as if he hadn’t heard the ad.  That’s not the definition of “coy”.

When forst asked about the ad, Romney played dumb, responding, “I haven’t seen the ad, so I’m sorry, I don’t get to see all the TV ads. Did he say that?”
Or, most likely, he wasn’t aware of the ad.  But “playing dumb” makes for a better story, huh?

Is English your second language?

You do realize that Quebec is part of Canada? And French is the sole language of the province. If you want a job in Montreal, you better know French. If you want a job in the aerospace industry, Biotech or Pharmaceutical Industry, IT and Communications..French is a must. Unless you plan to move out of the province.

And Canada is not an English only country. French is also an official language.

But if Newt had done that to Blitzer, it would’ve been perfectly acceptable to declare “boom boom” time, right?

Guy lives in Manitoba. You are correct about two official languages. The reality is ,that only knowing French in a predominantly English speaking province, truly inhibits your business opportunities. You are in effect ghettoized! If you want to live in French, you may. All government services have to be bilingual. His town, because of the predominantly French population, has a French immersion school. However, if you want to have a successful business, with English customers, you better be able to speak English. It’s the same for spanish speaking Americans. If you can’t speak English, you are confined to a ghetto of only being able to do business with other Spanish speaking people!

So you a re arguing that, if you are in a French speaking province, you would be in a virtual ghetto, if you didn’t speak the majority language. I agree!

Newt is right. If you moved to China and didn’t learn Chinese, you would live in a language ghetto!

People who hope to find gainful employment would do well to avoid ghetto language–a phrase that doesn’t need scare quotes because we ALL know what Gingrich was talking about. Any objections are purely ideological. Tommy’s little penis must have sprung up when he heard “ghetto”.

CNN:   I watched your after debate show, and almost everyone agreed that these candidates – for the most part – do NOT see the ads.  Mr. Castalantis (sp) who writes ads for pols – explained this in full.

So, I am not concerned at Romney saying he did not know about the ad.

That being said – Newt did say this – if not in the exact words – ones like it.  newt has a way of putting minorities and less fortunate people down.

Good debate CNN and Wolfe, except for some of the investment questions.  Glad you kept Newt reined-in.

I do agree that “english” should be the language of government – and every other entity in this country. 

Part of becoming a citizen is taking ESL (english as a second language).  For all the reasons Romney gave – immigrants should integrate into our english speaking culture.

It is good for them and good for our country.

Wolf respectfully pointed out that the ad was in fact, run by Romney.  It was a matter of clearing the record, not busting somebody.  Romney said he wasn’t aware of the ad and dooubted it was one of his but that he’d check on it. 

Wolf respectfully put Newt in his place with that but then finished Newt off with the moon questions. The the disgraced former speaker was dumbfounded.