How Bill Clinton Inspired The 47 Percent Filmmaker (Bartender"I Couldn't Sleep After I Watched It")

[Hissyspit]

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How Bill Clinton Inspired The 47 Percent Filmmaker

Posted: 03/12/2013 10:46 pm EDT | Updated: 03/12/2013 11:01 pm EDT

WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton won the presidential election for Barack Obama. But it wasn't his masterful Democratic National Convention speech or the advice he offered the president's reelection campaign. Clinton, it turns out, inspired the man who filmed Mitt Romney's infamous and game-changing 47 percent comments.

HuffPost has agreed to withhold the name of the surreptitious filmmaker until he breaks his silence on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Wednesday evening, followed by an appearance on HuffPost Live Thursday morning. In interviews over the last several months, he laid out his thinking before and after Romney's speech.

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Romney, of course, did not speak to any of the staff, bussers or waiters. He was late to the event, and rushed out. He told his dinner guests that the event was off the record, but never bothered to repeat the admonition to the people working there.

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The bartender said he never planned to distribute the video. But after Romney spoke, the man said he felt he had no choice.

"I felt it was a civic duty. I couldn't sleep after I watched it," he said. "I felt like I had a duty to expose it."

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[elleng]

1. The bartender

Thanks

[Fawke Em]

14. A 47 percenter, for sure.

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Big Dog.. And, mittLies himself had a greedy hand in the demise of his presidential

aspirations.. A-Gain.

Will Pres Obama invite the bartender to the White House for a Honey Brew?

thanks Hissyspit

[lonestarnot]

3. Just like a puke, big I, little you that mittwitt.

[amuse bouche]

4. I follow the video maker

on twitter and was very excited he decided to go public.


@WegotEd #47percent videographer reveal: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755822/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/vp/51155614 …

[xtraxritical]

13. I thought it was reported that it was Jimmy Carter's grandson who taped it?

[PatSeg]

16. Carter's grandson discovered the video

online and exposed it to a much wider audience.

[amuse bouche]

20. He discovered it

on youtube and along with Corn exposed it

The videographer was a bartender at the Romney event. He brought his camera thinking he would get a picture like he did when he catered a Bill Clinton event. What unfolded is an amazing story

[xtraxritical]

25. Well thank the bartender, he saved us from a Romney presidency. Wow, did we dodge a bullet.

[SunSeeker]

5. Amazing how little kindnesses can change lives.

"The man, who tended bar for a company that catered to a high-end clientele, had previously worked at a fundraiser at a home where Clinton spoke. After Clinton addressed guests, the man recalled, the former president came back to the kitchen and thanked the staff, the waiters, the bartenders, the busboys, and everyone else involved in putting the event together. He shook hands, took photos, signed autographs, and praised the meal -- all characteristic of the former president.

When the bartender learned he would be working at Romney's fundraiser, his first thought was to bring his camera, in case he had a chance to get a photo with the presidential candidate.

Romney, of course, did not speak to any of the staff, bussers or waiters..."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/12/how-bill-clinton-47-percent-filmmaker_n_2864711.html

[BlueMTexpat]

7. The difference in a nutshell between today's GOP and normal human beings.

For today's GOP, staff, waiters, bartenders, busboys and everyone else only exist to serve them for the least amount of pay and benefits possible - and "those people" should be thankful to do it, even for so little - and for no thanks whatsoever.

[PatSeg]

17. There is such a huge difference between

people who came from humble origins and people like Romney, who have never had to want for anything. Even Romney's compassion is condescending.

There are exceptions of course. The Kennedys and Roosevelts were capable of great empathy.

[BlueMTexpat]

33. I've never been sure whether Romney actually is a human being.

He's more like a pod person. There are too many people like him in powerful positions in the US today - sociopaths all. They try to act like humans, but they literally have no concept of what it is to BE one - to put themselves into the place of another and to imagine how they themselves would feel. They simply can't.

We really dodged a bullet in November. I'm still VERY happy about that.

[PatSeg]

35. His odd and awkward manner

always reminded me of characters in science fiction movies where an alien comes to earth and tries to act like a human. His use of the English language is unlike anything I've ever heard before in real life.

He seems somewhat different from other sociopaths we've seen though. He really is clueless to how his words and behavior affect other people. I believe he thinks he is okay and the rest of the world just doesn't quite get it (being inherently inferior I suppose). And why on earth don't these lesser humans want him to save them, as only he can do? A very, very strange man.

[tanyev]

27. "You mean I need to rub elbows with the hoi polloi if I want any of them to vote for me?"

"Forget it, it's not worth it."

[nilram]

6. National Hero.

[Historic NY]

8. KUDO's you did the right thing

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” T.R.

[Hissyspit]

9. Kick nt

[groundloop]

10. Staff at repub fundraisers etc. will now be searched to ensure no cameras.

Since high profile repubs can only let the public to see the scripted them, they'll now go to great lengths to ensure that their true selves never make it outside of a sealed and guarded room.

[Heather MC]

19. Tragically they will start paying attention to the invisible people

I love that a person Mitt would look down upon is the on that brought him down.

[drm604]

11. He once saved a woman from drowning.

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. So in a way, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter assisted in getting Barack Obama re-elected.

The bartender noticed the great contrast between how Bill Clinton and Mitt Romney treated staff at their respective events.

He then has his video broadcast to the nation thanks in good part to James Carter IV, who was tired of how Republicans had constantly smeared his grandfather unfairly throughout the years.

Morale of the story?

Don't fuck with Democrats.

[randome]

28. Excellent perspective!

[Hissyspit]

15. kick nt

[Heather MC]

18. Don't forget to tip your bartender

I bet Mitt doesn't know that because he doesn't drink

[msanthrope]

21. The Big Dog....still winning. nt

[madokie]

22. He is one brave man

I'd not put a dime on what his life is worth right now cause he pissed off a bunch of rich people who would not have any qualms with having him silenced. The deed is done as far as the rich assholes think.

Rich people play for keeps and they really really wanted this last election to swing their way and it didn't and they'll see this person is the reason why so If I was him I'd not be flying in any airplanes, large or small.
People get serious about their money and the more they have the more serious they get. Some of these rich assholes have tons of that money too. Bunches of it non tracible
IMHO

[DonCoquixote]

23. Please, leftists, protect this person.

Let's be frank, if by Friday, this person was found dead, and whoever children or spouse found dead also, the Free republic, Ditto Heads and yes, Fox News will start pouring the champagne!

The Right hires many goons, and let us not forget, the Mormons were counting on Mitt being their White Knight, the same Mormons who send a lot of their people into the CIA and Special Forces.

If i were religious, I would pray, I am not, so I call to act! If the left does not affirmatively protect this person, we might as well hang it up.

[randome]

29. The right doesn't need to hire anyone.

They have enough loonies who go off on their own. I worry about this, too.

[calimary]

24. I love the comments!

There's a great one in there:

romney/ryan 2012: whopper and whopper jr.

[spooky3]

32. That's great!!!

[Happyhippychick]

26. Can I buy that bartender a drink?

[randome]

30. Screw that! Buy him an even smaller video recorder!

[John2]

31. I think the guy

is a hero. I think he is a good representative for all Americans. He was thinking about the welfare of Americans and not those people. I think his comments now are even more important about Romney. There is nothing stopping Romney from creating good paying jobs right now in America. That is what all his rich pals in that room should be doing, instead of whining about cutting Social programs. All they see is profits.

[daybranch]

34. Huh?

I did not realize Bill did it. Maybe next time the many thousands of volunteers giving selflessly of their time should just not work to persuade and turn out voters. I personally am a little perturbed at the views of so many about tiis event or that event winning or losing the election. It was hard work spreading the message and I guess those of us who worked hundreds of hours had little to do with it.
Obama would have won without the video.
I remember when Obama did not do so good in the first debate, no one said that does it. It is over. That big event blew it. No we said, we just have to work harder and harder.
We volunteers won the election. Obama did not win it and surely that video tape did not.

[leftynyc]

36. What on earth are you talking about?

The OP is explaining that one of the reasons he exposed the video was because of the difference between how Bill Clinton and Mitt Romney treated those who were there working events. This video certainly changed the narrative and dogged the campaign but nobody is saying it is solely the reason for winning the election.