The clip has been making the rounds -- we aired an excerpt on last night's show -- but for those who still haven't seen it, Josh Marshall argues the video "has been scientifically proven to be the best Mitt video in history."
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For those who can't watch clips online, here's Mitt Romney, speaking in Michigan, trying to explain why he loves the state:
"A little history -- I was born and raised here. I love the state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height.
"I like -- I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. Something very special here. The Great Lakes but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan.
"I love cars. I don't know -- I mean, I grew up totally in love with cars.... I love cars. I love American cars."
There was apparently some glitch in Romney's programming during that appearance, but I've been assured the campaign tech team has given the candidate a full diagnostic.
As for why Michigan trees "are the right height" -- unlike those other rascally states, where the trees are either too tall or too short -- I'm yet to see someone explain what on earth Romney was talking about.
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So I'm looking at the map of Michigan, trying to figure out where it's ass is. Of course, another sure way to find it is to look for Mitt's nose.
Does Forest Gump....come to mind when this guy opens his mouth?....Can you imagine him talking to Foreign Diplomats......????.....what a Bafooooon! Ronald Reagan is looking pretty good right now.....Can I still write him In?
Yeah --- Let's dig up ole Ronnie. Set him up in a real comfortable chair in the Oval Office and let him snooze away with his head in his lap just like he did for the eight years he was there. It would certainly be a much better choice than Mitt.
Maybe he is arguing against old growth forests and for tree farms?
Off topic ...
The right winged evangelists like saying freedom of religion is not freedom from religion I suggest when they say this you explain that freedom of religion requires freedom from religion. You can not be free to practice your religion or atheism if they are trying to force their religion down your throat.
A fair analogy is the freedom to use any mode of travel you wish to; car, bus, take a train, bike, walk, crawl, unicycle - or stay where you are and not travel at all. Who says you have to go anywhere if you don't want to or have no need to?
The android hasn't found the humanity chip yet, but clearly, he's searching.
Maybe they should design a reality chip first?After they achieve personhood of course.
"There was apparently some glitch in Romney's programming during that appearance, but I've been assured the campaign tech team has given the candidate a full diagnostic."
Most Robots are equipped with Artificial Intelligence. Romney is certainly Artificial, but he lacks the Intelligence.
yeah, but are the woman strong, the men good looking and the kids above average?
Nope, sorry Russell. That description is true only in Lake Wobegone, which is in Minnesota (where I grew up and now live again) as everyone knows.
Didn't Michael Moore discuss the tree height business on last night's show, and confirm that they are all "just right"?
Michael Moore said the same thing about the trees.
And didn't MittenLore steal the emotion chip?
He is trying to say what Rick Perry expressed when he hugged that bottle of Maple Syrup.
They both should just break down and say, "I love you"
Now if I get a 5th of Jack as a gift, I hug it!!! maple syrup? ...not so much....Justin Timberlake brought Sexy Back.....These guys are "Bringing Goofy Back", Give the GOP a heart-attack...Yep!!
Well, you want to know what his missive meant when he mused how the trees were the right height?
Look no further than Benton Harbor!
Mitt was merely sending his approval of Gov. Snyder's new policy of taking over democratically elected town councils to help his developer buddies convert virgin land into five star golf courses!
The trees are just the right height to play a full 18 while not having to see the blight from the new five star course! They are also of the right height to hang the less-desireables from should they try to take back their democracy! -Kevo
That's deep...but you are giving Mitt way to much credit for being that cleaver....hahahaha.
Where the hell is Chuck Barris and his gong?
When are we going to get the William Shatner recitation of this? That would be so awesome.
It is painful to watch mentally ill people trying to connect with the public in a meaningful way.
A person with schizoid personality disorder:
U.S. National LIbrary of Medicine.
University of Maryland Medical Center
My brother is just like Mitt. He's 63, he was a stutterer when he was young. And I can just see what they told Mitt to say. "Go out there and tell all these people what you love about your home state." So .........there he goes. My brother is very careful to think of what he's going to say before he says it. Then usually the conversation has already passed him by, and he has to think of something again to add to the coinversation. He drives me crazy. I could easily hear my brother say, "The trees are just .....the right height." he has a similar speech pattern to Mitt, kind of gaspy and a bit stuttery, like he's afraid if he doesn't get it out, the conversation will pass him by. I love my brother, even tho he drives me crazy. I don't love Mitt and he drives me crazier.
Do they list symptoms for Artificial Personality Disorder?
I was waiting for him to say "I love lamp."
Reminds me of the scene in "Birdcage" where Gene Hackman, playing a right-wing Republican Congressman (or was he just playing Mitt?) and as a guest in Robin Williams and Nathan Lane's living room, monotones a narration of his drive from the upper midwest to Florida. What is it about right-wingers that makes them think that a few smarmy and facile compliments (of the LANDSCAPE, no less!) will immediately cause the listener to embrace their Fascist agendas?
He was trying to get the tree hugger vote. Fat chance.
"What is it about right-wingers...cause the listener to embrace their Fascist agendas?"
Because it works so much of the time.
Did anyone else watch Mitt Romney's speech and immediately think of that scene from Ron Burgundy starring Will Ferrel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPwOOK4nEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwR5XyvfJ28
Someone else apparently made the connection
Can we cut this guy some slack? Chances are he has been living for some time in one of those subdivisions where they have paved paradise and put up McMansions. If that is the case, then I can understand his amazement at trees that are just the right height, as opposed to subdivision trees, which could be described as Charlie Brown Maples at best.
I think Mr. Romney's campaign should bring in T-Paw as a manliness consultant.
Alas, Mitt Romney can't see the forest for the trees.
Tree-hee Eileen!
I think it is time to roll out the classic Maddow. History seems to be repeating itself.
Get the popcorn and watch some asylum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhmByBWsJoI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5KpWXQTUxQ (note the "dirty, dirty, porn water". Gah!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_iBWQSz4so
As a Michigander, I can state for the record that our trees are just the right height, and our lakes are everywhere. Plus there are cars. Lots of cars. Excellent detection there, Sherlock!
I love the sky, it's the right height high. I love the sea it's the right height-sea level. I love republicans they are the right height-lower than a snakes belly.
I really think he was trying to express that feeling of comfort you get when everything is the way you think it should be.
That feeling of home. Like the idea of comfort food.
Just right.
Only if you are a high functioning Aspergers syndrome person. My brother is the same way. Just as Mitt's wife says he is loving and caring, my brother is quite loving and caring to his children, and I assume his wife. Anybody else, he is very uncomfortable around. Oh, until he gets drunk, then he has a great time at the bowling alley. lol
As much as I believe the Mittster to be a pandering fraud, I was actually slightly touched by his "trees" comment. I kinda knew what he meant... I grew up in the northwest, where the trees (lotsa Douglas Firs and Cedars and the like) are rather tall, as are the hills and mountains. When I go to the midwest, even the U.P., the trees are, to my eye, too short. The supposed "mountains" are mere hills, to my mind. Everything just seems scaled back and somehow, even though pretty and picturesque, not quite right.
I think he was pandering, trying to establish himself as a Michigan home boy. But there mighta been something to that tree-height thing, perhaps based in that sense of "what my world is like" that so many of us develop in childhood, and I could relate to it, if from an rather opposite perspective.
I'd like to second this. I can't stand Romney but I actually thought his trees-height comment was kind of cute. I grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in Texas for about 15 years. The whole time I was in the south, one of the things I found it hardest to deal with was the absence of trees. And the few we had were just scrubby little things, barely worthy of the name "tree". Since moving back north, I can't get enough of the thick forests packed with huge trees, which are all very much "the right height"! So let's give the poor guy a break -- I think this was one moment where his true self came through, in an oddly endearing way.
I grew up in Oregon and his comment also sparked a reaction, though along different lines: I wonder what he'll say when he gets to the Northwest?
"I love it here. Except for the trees. There's an unchecked blight of over-sized evergreens. As president I will do something about that."
Would play nicely to the logging lobby I guess.
I grew up on the plains of Colorado. I love the horizon. Don't want any trees in the way, I want to see where the land meets the sky. So I guess I can understand his idea. However, he is very robotic and I think he knows it.
To Michigan. From Mitt. With Love.
I think that I have never seen such a sight
As a tree like one of just the right height.
Santorum may have an edge in the polls
But these right-heighted trees, he can never know;
And the cars made right here in the Motor City,
Just forget that I would have let it die without a hint of pity;
The lakes that dot the Michigan parts;
Gingrich surely does not have these safe in his heart;
And Ron Paul can bask in his cup of tea,
But he is no Michigander, like me.
So, forget all that I've said and most of what I've done,
And vote for me, Dear Michigan, for I am still your native son.
Too bad American cars are the wrong height...so Chrysler has to assemble their '200' in Canada and Ford assembles the Fusion in Mexico.
Good thing American-built cars like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, and Hyundai Sonata are assembled in USA. And they fit.
Support American factory workers. Buy American-made! Accord. Camry. Sonata.