I mean, really. This is even stupider than G. W. Butch!!!
This is second-term Reagan /Alzheimer’s level.
This is Mitt Romney speaking.
Mitt Romney Doesn’t Get Why Airplane Windows Don’t Open
By Dan Amira“What I wouldn’t do for a breath of fresh air.”
Mitt Romney, a 65-year-old man with two advanced degrees, has no idea why they don’t let you open airplane windows mid-flight, according to his own remarks at a fund-raiser in Beverly Hills on Saturday. Romney’s wife, Ann, was in attendance, and the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing Friday en route to Santa Monica because of an electrical malfunction.
“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”
Really.
He said that.
In public.
Who is this creature!!!???
More from the same article:
To answer Romney: Airplane cabins are pressurized to allow people to, you know, breathe and stay conscious and such at high altitudes — things that are important for everyone who isn’t an advanced robot covered in a highly convincing outer layer of humanesque skin and facial features.
I’m sorry.
He’s dumber than Sarah Palin.
Unbelievable.
AG
The media nominated him.
To lose!!!
Bet on it.
AG
And on the subject of James Fallows.
I noticed that Booman recently had a at least half a good word for James Fallows. (How to Win the Debates) Half a good word is three times too many for this jowl-shaking, tendentious empty suit posing as an “expert.” He makes Wlliam Safire’s work look reasonable.
This time he is acting as apologist for Mitt Romney’s utter stupidity in not understanding why airplane windows don’t open.
Here:
Bullshit. “Any of us…could and would say things as inapt?” Maybe Fallows has foot-in-mouth disease…on the evidence of his writing I am sure that he does, actually…but I cannot think of a single soul among all of the people that I have ever known who would say such a thing. Well…maybe some folks who have never flown and aren’t too curious about how the world works. But that’s it. Nobody else.
Except the Mittser.
And Mr. Mittser is only several percentage points and/or some funny business at the polls away from being the dodo with his finger on the End Of The World button.
God help us all. This nation is so broken!!!
Fallows is a pilot..small planes, thank providence…and he blathers on for a while about safety procedurals that they must learn by heart.
And then he says…
Right.
Different people have different, irrational fears. But no matter what the fears, do people of even average intelligence completely misunderstand the nature of the feared object? Mitt Romney saying “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.” Is like…ohhh, say like James Fallows saying “”When you have a big horse with hard hooves and lots of teeth, when you’re near a horse, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — no place to hide. Why don’t they put some kind of softener on their hooves or something….padded socks, maybe. Or…or… take out their teeth! I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”
Unfuckingbelieveable.
I have a great fear of pundits. Why don’t they…ohhh, I don’t know. Why don’t they just get rid of them?
Oh.
What’s that you say?
Who’d enforce the fix if they did that?
Oh.
Nevermind.
Yore freind…
Emily Litella
Rmoney fell so far from the tree, you wonder what kind of hurricane was blowing that day.