Mitt Romney can't catch a break on this overseas trip. Dogged by gaffes in even seemingly safe territory like England, the Republican candidate for president now has to deal with a short-tempered spokesman who lost it with reporters in Poland, the last stop on Romney's three-country tour.
Just hours ago, it seemed that Romney might escape Poland with nary a gaffe present. "Romney stays on message in Poland after UK, Israel missteps," read one headline. Alas, with the last limo door set to shut and reporters pressing in with complaints that the candidate hadn't answered but three questions from the traveling press corps over the weeklong trip, Rick Gorka couldn't help but let off some steam.
The traveling press secretary yelled out to the pack as they hurled questions at the retreating Romney who had just laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
"Show some respect. Kiss my ass. This is a Holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect."
A few moments later, he added a "shove it," to Jonathan Martin of Politico, CNN reports.
Perhaps taking his own advice to "show some respect," Gorka reportedly apologized to the reporters about 30 minutes later.
You can check out CNN's bleeped out version of the video here, or above.
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Another prime example of disrespect from reporters. As the PR aid said, "It's a holy place. Show some respect." I guess it would have been a little better received if he hadn't added the profanity. We all love the news and we would like to see good reporting skills. However, does this necessarily qualify as news? Oh and by the way, why did you leave out what provoked the PR aid to tell Martin to shove it. Pushy, pushy reporters. Let's all try to have a little more respect on how we conduct business.
"Show some respect. Kiss my ass. This is a Holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect."
Really Mitt? I know it's a military memorial site at a palace. When did it become a Holy site? (And why is Holy capitalized?)
"Let's all try to have a little more respect on how we conduct business." Ironically, that's all we're asking of Mitt.
And it really doesn't matter what the reporters do or say or how "pushy" they may be. If you are the "Press Secretary" for a presidential candidate you do not lose your cool. Ever. If you are going to hold the press at arms length on your candidate's international trip, you should be able to predict that reporters will start getting hungry for some answers. He stepped in his own bear trap and I expect he will be replaced very soon. A competent campaign would do it immediately.
Bwahahahaha!! You can't make this up! Comedy Gold!
did romney stop at iran to tell them, stop playing with their worm hole device.
I could just see these guy's falling on the nuke button and taking out Canada .