Man who recorded `47 percent' remarks speaks out .

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Man who recorded `47 percent' remarks speaks out .
March 13, 2013
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The bartender working the private fundraiser where Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his comments about "47 percent" of Americans says he didn't make the secret recording as a political partisan.

In his first public interview, Scott Prouty tells MSNBC's Ed Schultz that he lost sleep and struggled for weeks before deciding to release the recording to the magazine Mother Jones. But Prouty says he thought it was important that people heard Romney and knew what he was really thinking.

In the video, Romney tells donors paying $50,000 apiece that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government, see themselves as victims and believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.

Romney's critics used the video to argue that he was out of touch with average Americans.




Read more: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2013/03/man_who_recorded_47_percent_remarks_speaks_out

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[TxVietVet]

1. I watched his interview on "The Ed Show".

Thank you, Scott Prouty. You did a great service for your country. I'll bet the conservanazis panties are all wadded up over this.

[rustydog]

2. The part in the tape where Rawmoney glowingly spoke of factory shopping in China

and the housing situation(Bunks three high, 12 girls to a room) fenced enclosure with guard towers...Damn, was he describing a factory or a CCA compound?

Armed guards to keep the women workers inside working jobs Rawmoney killed in America....

[Samantha]

5. Romney also mentioned they were paid a pittance after comments on the hours

they put in. That was not just a fence, it was barbed wire.

I just really couldn't stomach that whole part of Romney's remarks. It was brought out these workers had jobs that were outsourced from the United States. The workers make small appliances.

Those wages and those conditions are exactly what Republicans want to see in this Country before they agree to bringing jobs back. Otherwise, it would cost them too much money because they absolutely couldn't get away with that here.

Anyone that condones that type of treatment of other human beings is barbaric.

Sam

[csziggy]

7. That was the part that convinced Scott Prouty to release the video

He was obviously disgusted by what he heard from Rmmoney that night, especially by that part.

It's ironic that he took his camera just in case he had the chance to meet Rmoney personally and wanted a picture with a possible future president. Then he was so repelled by Rmoney's statements he released this devastating footage.

If Rmoney had taken the time to meet the "staff" I wonder if that personal contact might have swayed Prouty enough that he would not have released the video?

[obama2terms]

3. I have to watch the interview

But I'm so happy he came forward so quickly! I wonder if Romney watched, and if he did what he thought.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Man who took Romney "47 percent" video reveals himself

Man who took Romney "47 percent" video reveals himself
Reuters
10:01 p.m. EDT, March 13, 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scott Prouty was at a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year as the bartender, and ended up secretly taping a video that changed the trajectory of the 2012 presidential campaign.

Prouty went public with his story on Wednesday after months of speculation as to who might have been the source of the video that dealt a body blow to Romney's campaign.

Last May at a Florida fundraiser, Romney said 47 percent of voters were dependent on government and "will vote for the president no matter what."

When Prouty handed the tape over to Mother Jones and the magazine published it in September, Romney was put on the defensive for weeks and never really recovered, losing to President Barack Obama on November 6.

More:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-romney-47percentbre92d03m-20130313,0,1835645.story

[Coyotl]

6. I'm watching him streaming now here:

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Better after the hype.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755822/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/vp/51170895#51170895

Maybe they are correct to say this was the game changer, but I think Obama was going to crush him just the same. Everyone could see what Mitt was, the 1% candidate, without the 47% video.