There are times when I envy the reporters who travel with presidential candidates and then there's this.
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks with Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey , center, and farm owner Lemar Koethe in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012.
Mitt Romney visited a corn field in Iowa. Here is a description of the event through the eyes of the producer who logged the video:
45:49 romney at field
46:14 romney holding corn
47:20 shot of corn
48:55 romney talking in front of corn
50:03 shot of corn
51:02 shot of cars and staff
52:05 romney shakes hands in front of field
53:10 Romney walks into field
53:30 Romney walks out of field
53:38 shake hands again
I feel for the producers who do the hard work logging these video feeds, I really do.
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I think this picture calls for a caption contest. Who's with me???
Mittens: "Lookin' a little puny this year, you think?"
Romney handler: "Wardrobe get this farmer some clothes that fit, prop master how about a larger ear of corn. Sheldon's cash deserves a better quality production."
Its a little bit smaller than the corn I used to eat on the fourth of July. Hey, could you put a couple dozen of these little corns in a bag that I can take back to the little woman? Oh, there's a difference in the kind of corn we eat? What's field corn?
I'm with Arthur! We need a picture caption. "Maybe Being in the corn for the first time leave Romneyhood speachless". He was probably calculating how much he could get if he sold the cornfield in China and let them pick it. After all those people in Iowa don't know how to make enough money for the corn--he could do better. Who cares if that farm is their home and livelihood.
Is this corn from the local 7-11 too?
"I'm not sure about this corn...y'know? it doesn't look like you grew it. Did you grow this corn? You didn't did you? No. No. It came from the... local um... (off camera voice: "corn field") 7-Eleven corn field or whatever..."
"You mean I have to eat this ... with my HANDS?"
"Which one is the 'send' button...?"
You used to do what!? with these?
"corny" just like the Mitt!! Do you think he had ever been in a corn field before, I doubt it
Mitt"I thought corn came in a can or frozen in a bag,this is Amazing!!"looking puzzled !
Why do I feel like I'm in North Korea?
"I thought I was corny, but wow this real corn is just the right height" says Romney !!
Mitt looks like he cannot recognize what he's holding. Ok, Mitt. It's like this--those things you badmouthed earlier were homemade cookies. This is an actual ear of corn grown in the field you are standing in. Grown by a farmer who, I'm guessing, needs health care. And needs his Social Security when he retires. And Medicare. Take it easy, MItt. You are still on the planet earth--the part most of us live in--the people whose taxes you want to raise so you pay even less. Where are your taxe returns
, MItt?
Wow! This is amazing! Do you have any corn seeds so I can see what they look like?
Hey, there's bugs in that corn field! And its hot! I gotta get out of there, because it makes me sweat!
Republicans invented this kind f politics. Remember Lee Atwater? Maybe this is just the karma bus making a stop. beep beep
Mittens: "So you mean MY tax plan makes middle class families feel like
running naked backwards thought a cornfield?"
Pansy,can't get his hands dirty. Romney has never related to the common person,he does not know how to act.He has only lived among the Elte
No Mr President, first you eat the kernels THEN you use the cob.
Quiet,
You're wasting your time - I'm probably the only one here that knows what you are talking about. Don't forget your backup Montgomery Ward catalog and watch out for that wasp nest.
Hey - I hear that if Romney wins, he's going to start a public works project building two story outhouses - top floor for Republicans and the bottom floor for Democrats. Guess what economic policy it's designed to demonstrate?
Romney: "Are you sure this worked for Kevin Costner?"
And Adam, there be others around as warped as thee and QM.... But out here in the mountains of the real Old Wild West, we've got a plant called "skunk cabbage." The Lord doth provide when we worship and meditate in His true temples...
Ann has something that looks like this but vibrates and makes her smile more than I do.
He's probably wondering "What's this yellow stuff called?"
Is it Genetically Modified Corn with insecticides within???
How about a little yuking it up by the local yokels assembled here with a Romney: "If they don't have cornbred, let them eat cake", comment"
One thing we do know...that the US Secretary of Labor has stated that with all the evidence of the effects of draught in some parts of the country, we are expecting our 3rd largest corn crop harvesting in history, as family farmers and agri-business planted more acres to corn this Spring than in any other year, respecting rising prices due to Federal Reserve flooding the financial systen with printed out of thin air dollars resulting in inflation, and the Obama energy policies restricting fossil fuels and promoting alternative fuels, like ethanol instead.