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Mitt Romney: “Who let the dogs out?”
4:25PM ON
01/22/2008
BY
Ariel Werner
Michael Powell and Sarah Wheaton offer some incredible coverage in today’s New York Times. This stuff is too good to be true:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mitt Romney, whose 1950s manner and celebratory drink of choice call to mind a milkshake man more than a rap singer, gave a shout out Monday that left no doubt that he had spent little time listening to hip-hop.
Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate from Massachusetts by way of Michigan and Utah who enjoys a milkshake at the end of a long day, stopped by a staging area for a Martin Luther King Birthday parade here. In his dress shirt and tie, and with his unwavering smile, he walked over and posed for photographs with a group of black youngsters. Putting his arm around a teenage girl, he waved to the cameras and offered, “Who let the dogs out?” He added a tepid “woof woof.”
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Somewhere, the Baha Men, the Bahamian group whose 2000 song the candidate was referencing, must have been shuddering.
Kevin Madden, one of Mr. Romney’s campaign boyz on the bus, said the candidate had been joking around and had responded to someone who asked, “Who let you out?”
Later, Mr. Romney admired a child’s gold necklace and said, “Oh, you’ve got some bling-bling here.”
He spoke of Dr. King at an earlier appearance in Jacksonville, calling him “an individual who showed in many respects how to bring down some of the barriers to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence.”
It has been rare to find the Republican candidates speaking at events with any significant number of black voters. Some 96 percent of the voters in the last Republican primary, in South Carolina, were white; 2 percent were black, according to exit polls conducted by The State, a newspaper in Columbia, S.C.
Mr. Romney also issued a statement that the “failure of our inner-city schools is the greatest civil rights issue of our time.”
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3 Comments on “ Mitt Romney: “Who let the dogs out?” ”
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:18PM
Eric Smith Says:
That’s nothing, his stump speech began “My fellow Americans, I like big butts and I cannot lie.”
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January 22nd, 2008 at 5:35PM
Jef Nickerson Says:
Oh.
My.
Maude.
If he weren’t such a colossal asshat I’d feel bad for him. I hope he fired his handlers.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 10:29PM
Ariel Werner Says:
“Mitt’s milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.” - Kelis
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