He had to be saying this as kind of a joke... it just had to be.

>> ^Januari:

He had to be saying this as kind of a joke... it just had to be.


For someone that's a US presidential candidate, you'd freaking hope so!

Most people are reporting it as just a joke... so as anti-Romney I may be, I'll give him enough credit to say he knows what's going on with a plane, just an odd sense of humor... but I love the early reactions from everyone about it.

At least he didn't joke about the food.

I'm skeptical of this too, a transcript only, it all depends on how he said it, this could easily be just a little joke he did. But then again, the way Romney talks it can be a little hard to know if he's joking. I'm not trying to make fun of his stupid ideas or religion, I'm saying he's the kind of speaker that can do a joke and nobody in the room understood that a joke was just done.

That being said, the ignorance about cabin pressure and temperature , assuming it is real, is nothing compared with the stupidity and gullibility needed to accept mormonism.

His wife was on that plane and he was concerned about her welfare. Why would he joke about emergency preparedness of a plane on which his wife was flying? That doesn't make sense to joke about that; I'm convinced he was sincere.

lol had to be a joke, seriously no one is that stupid.

Seriously... I'm not even skeptical... Cenk needs to smarten up himself and realize that he basically just got trolled by Romney.

yeah, there are much better, more legit things to slam Romney on.

It's just a brain fart, let it go.

Am I the only one who finds TYT painful to watch? Their analysis is dreadful...

>> ^VoodooV:

yeah, there are much better, more legit things to slam Romney on.
It's just a brain fart, let it go.


That would be more worrying than if it was just a poor joke, which I reckon it must've been. A brain fart is mixing up someone's name, not this

I find it amusing that joke or not, the reaction this is getting where people are actually entertaining that he may have been serious. Shows how much people think of the guy

It was no joke:

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people


This is just one from a whole page listing stupid things obama said, per good ole google

He don't know why. Lol.

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>> ^lantern53:

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

This is just one from a whole page listing stupid things obama said, per good ole google


That article reported 10 dead initially, the text of the article now says 11, and it turns out maybe 12 died now. There is a big difference between misspeaking the data you hear from your earpiece or PR guy (or even brainfarting and saying 10k when you mean 10), and not understanding why windows don't open up in airplanes.

Daily show has it right though, Obama is the luckiest man right now...he's not doing anything right to win it, but most likely will, because Romney "blew out his ACL".

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but that looked pretty clearly like a sarcastic / humorous remark to me.
>> ^burdturgler:

It was no joke:

You're right, as long as only 10 people died, it's not a tragedy.>> ^lantern53:

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

This is just one from a whole page listing stupid things obama said, per good ole google

Seems TYT must've realised it was just a bad joke and removed (made private) the video

>> ^lantern53:

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

This is just one from a whole page listing stupid things obama said, per good ole google


*clap* *clap* *clap*
So for the first time, there's an actual defense for one of the stupid things Romney says; that it was just a joke, but instead your first instinct is "attack the other guy!". Well done. You should be on Fox News

My point is that people say stupid things, even your heroes.

>> ^lantern53:

My point is that people say stupid things, even your heroes.


Oh yeah... people stay stupid things huh?... tell us more?

shameless plug for people saying stupid things - http://videosift.com/video/Overwhelming-Ignorance

So basically George W Bush was the intellectual high point in recent Republican history?

>> ^Deano:

So basically George W Bush was the intellectual high point in recent Republican history?


Not so recent really, you have to go back before Regan to find a Republican president with a properly functioning brain.

Yeah like... Eisenhower?

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I think it was a joke.

Is it that unreasonable anyway? People seem to be assuming that if it's not a joke, that he means windows that passengers can wind down like a car but obviously they'd be locked except when in an emergency and the plane is less than 10,000 feet up. If the plane is on the runway and it fills with smoke, being able to open the windows might help. Or it might bring in more oxygen and make the fire much worse...

>> ^Quboid:

I think it was a joke.
Is it that unreasonable anyway? People seem to be assuming that if it's not a joke, that he means windows that passengers can wind down like a car but obviously they'd be locked except when in an emergency and the plane is less than 10,000 feet up. If the plane is on the runway and it fills with smoke, being able to open the windows might help. Or it might bring in more oxygen and make the fire much worse...


I agree. He was joking, and I actually don't think it's that stupid an idea, either. Sure, as he articulated it, it sounds like a stupid idea. You don't want a hand crank on every window (although I've been in commercial airliner cockpits that DO have such a thing).

But maybe it IS a problem that airliners don't have a way to rapidly vent the cabin and cockpit with fresh (yes, low pressure and cold) air. It won't be comfortable at 15,000 ft, but it could save lives. Smoke in an airplane is a serious issue.

i'm just not watching TYT videos. They just suck.

>> ^kymbos:

i'm just not watching TYT videos. They just suck.


Okay... what else wont you be doing today?

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Would've liked to see the original with TYT commentary. Romney's comment is definitely humourous, in the same way a child makes an innocent but ridiculous observation that causes adults to laugh at the absurdity of such a notion. Bit of a stretch to suggest it was a deliberate joke though

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As a person who probably spent a sizable percentage of his adult life in various jet airplanes, I have to fall on the side of flat joke. Still think he's a buffoon.

Like you really care...>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^kymbos:
i'm just not watching TYT videos. They just suck.

Okay... what else wont you be doing today?