{"id":31383,"date":"2012-09-19T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31383"},"modified":"2012-09-19T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:12:20","slug":"what-mitt-romney-thinks-of-ordinary-americans-and-palestinians-in-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/09\/19\/what-mitt-romney-thinks-of-ordinary-americans-and-palestinians-in-private\/","title":{"rendered":"What Mitt Romney Thinks of Ordinary Americans (and Palestinians) in Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest091912\/2012_09_19_terkel.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest091912\/2012_09_19_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/mitt_romney_mother_jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>It has been a tough week for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney with secret videos revealing what he really thinks when addressing sections of his base in private. In response to Mother Jones\u2019 explosive undercover video revealing Romney\u2019s contempt for 47% of Americans who he says are dependent on government and will vote for Obama no matter what, President Obama shot back this morning saying \u201cyou have to work for everyone, not just for some.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Also from the same fundraiser in May, Mother Jones published video taped comments Romney made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that revealed his opinion of Palestinians as having \u201cno interest whatsoever in establishing peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As if to make matters worse, both videos were taken at a private fundraiser for Mitt Romney in May of this year hosted by a hedge fund manager named Mark Leder known as much for his failures in the private equity industry as for his penchant for so-called \u201csex parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney responded to the section of the secret video concerning his 47% remark by essentially defending it. He said \u201cIt doesn\u2019t capture the question, so I don\u2019t know precisely what was asked, but I think it was about my campaign and how I\u2019d be able to get the majority of voters to support me.\u201d He did add that he was speaking off the cuff and that his words were not \u201celegantly stated.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Amanda Terkel, Senior Politics Reporter at Huffington Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Amanda Terkel&#8217;s work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/amanda-terkel\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/amanda-terkel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a tough week for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney with secret videos revealing what he really thinks when addressing sections of his base in private. In response to Mother Jones\u2019 explosive undercover video revealing Romney\u2019s contempt for 47% of Americans who he says are dependent on government and will vote for Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}