“Of rural Americans frustrated with the political process”
THAT IS NOT WHAT HE SAID!! He said they were bitter about their economic condition and so they cling to guns and religion etc.
The frustrated with the political process was his later spin.
Notice how Rothenberg tries to turn everything upside down and make it all the evil Republicans' fault. The statement SHOULD read, "It certainly will hurt him in a general election because it reveals his antipathy rural people and people of faith."
But this is standard procedure in the msm. Remember Willie Horton? The common msm interpretation is that George Bush used the Willie Horton incident to appeal to the racist attitudes of middle America. The truthful interpretation should be that the Willie Horton incident revealed Michael Dukakis to be the soft-on-crime liberal that he is.
But, truth be told, the Willie Horton ad had nothing to do with the result of the 1988 election. George Bush won on Reagan's coattails pure and simple. Dukakis never had a chance.
The access to the video seems to have disappeared....hmmmm.....
yes, absolutely right. And, KansasGirl, I’m a Missouri Girl but we gotta stick together, we fly-over voters :-)) But this is a critical issue, BHO’s (and the MSM’s) spin notwithstanding. He can’t clean it up with any thinking people - he spoke his beliefs to a private gathering, that we’re all ignorant, unsophisticated, bible-thumping, gun-toting zenophobic bigots. Once again, he’s trying to change the focus to our “feelings of betrayal by the government” rather than how he REALLY feels about us as a demographic. Disgusting and devious.