New Romney Spokesman Used Twitter For Sexist Attacks

[ProSense]

New Romney Spokesman Used Twitter For Sexist Attacks

By Judd Legum and Alex Seitz-Wald

Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s new foreign policy spokesperson Richard Grenell has an odd penchant for targeting the wives of male politicians and women in general on Twitter.

Grenell, who served as George W. Bush’s spokesperson at the UN and was announced as the Romney campaign’s new representative yesterday, has gone after Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Callista Gingrich, Sandra Fluke and others. He also asserted that President Obama’s children should be fair game for political debate. A selection of his thoughts on women:

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In another comment, that has since been removed, Grennell discussed the first lady “sweating on the East Room carpet.”

This afternoon, Grennell offered an apology, of sorts, for his attacks, writing, “my tweets were written to be tongue-in-cheek and humorous but I can now see how they can also be hurtful. I didn’t mean them that way and will remove them from twitter. I apologize for any hurt they caused.”

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/20/468736/richard-grenell-twitter-women/

There is something wrong with Republicans.

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[MineralMan]

1. Uggh!

Some nasty tweets at the link.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Chasing twits, I found this ...

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/04/01/sunday-review/01QUANTUM2.html

[ProSense]

3. I'm sure

the Romney campaign would have seen this as no biggie if an Obama adviser had made those tweet. I mean, all one has to be is a Democrat for Romney and Republicans to throw a hissy fit. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002555571

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Pig. n/t

[DesertRat]

5. Scumbag. n/t