Romney: YouTube had 29,000 sex offenders on their web site

[cynatnite]

But Romney showed some unfamiliarity with the Internet when he discussed the problem of sexual predators and children.

"YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other," Romney explained. "YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000."

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/romney_antiporn_confuses_youtu.html

:rofl:

[ingac70]

1. Um, Mitt....

That was myspace, dickhead! :eyes:

[cynatnite]

2. I guess this explains why he won't do the YouTube debates...

:rofl:

He thought child molesters were going to ask him questions.

[ingac70]

10. What rock does this guy stay under?

When he isn't campaigning? Sheesh! I don't know whether to laugh or be disgusted.

I hope YouTube breaks his balls.

[brettdale]

3. someone should contact youtube

They should sue for defamtion.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Sen. Stevens (AK) taught him everything he knows about the Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

[brettdale]

5. Contract Mitt and demand a retraction

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[lumpy]

6. Any pol that doesn't know the difference between

YouTube and My Space is out of touch and living in that proverbial bubble. What this country does not need is another ignoramous sitting in the drivers seat.

[Captain Angry]

8. I don't know if I'd go there.

YouTube and MySpace are basically worthless in the day to day lives of millions of people.

They're both entertainment sources, and in YouTube's case are only now starting to be extended into a more visible status.

A politician that doesn't know what the internet is? Scary.
A politician that doesn't know about the popular sites? Big whoop.

Romney has plenty of his own problems. This isn't on the top thousand.

[frogcycle]

9. what is scary is that he didn't just ask somebody before mouthing off

The actual facts are irrelevant. String some words together that will have the intended impact, then forget you ever said them and move on.

exhibits a personality characteristic I am, shall we say, really sick of seeing in the person purporting to be the POTUS.

[Captain Angry]

11. Fire and forget.

Make the angry statement, get on record faster than your opponents, apologize later if it turned out to be wrong.

I misspoke...

Where have I heard THAT one before?

[frogcycle]

35. they need a better disclaimer

misspoke somehow suggests it was ok. "I was bleating nonsense thinking no-one would catch me" would be more accurate

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Myspace maybe, but I think YouTube is great.

So many historical videos on that site. It's definitely not worthless...it just depends on what you search for (I mean you could essentially say the same about the internet, too).

[Captain Angry]

13. I love YouTube.

It has BECOME a useful source for archival videos and such. It certainly wasn't started as one. And if the original owners of the source materials had their way, none of it would be there since it's all basically pirated.

That said, probably 50%+ of the US population has never, and will never see that website. My grandparents never have. A lot of areas in the US still are on dial-up or worse for internet access, so video is just painful and out of reach for many.

[blogslut]

31. Your stats are wrong

According to the latest 2007 stats from InternetWorldStats.com (who get their data from Nielsen/Net Ratings and the International Telecommunication Union) - 69.7% of Americans use the Internet. In addition, PEW stated in March 2006 that 42% of Americans use the Internet via broadband connection.

link: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/184/report_display.asp

In other words, it's safe to say that a majority of the American population knows more about the web than Mittens.

Another fine example of Romney's ignorance is this claim from the same article:

"Romney earlier in the day said he would encourage computer manufacturers to install internet filtering software on computers sold at retail to help parents protect their children from pornography."

If Romney had merely done some research he would find that most computer retailers sell machines with OS software pre-installed. As you can guess, that software is most often Windows - which is bundled with Internet Explorer - which contains filtering software within its browser settings. Not to mention the many access providers that also provide filtering software with their services.

[cynatnite]

16. Not a big whoop..yes, but funny as hell, IMO n/t

[Captain Angry]

18. Certainly.

His lack of knowledge of the sites doesn't disqualify him as a candidate for me.

The other 15 or 20 thousand things that he's wrong on are enough for me.

:-)

[JI7]

7. HAHHAHAHAH

[Vanje]

14. what a dope----nt

[melody]

15. Someone said the GOP is now a conspiracy of sociopaths, ignorant buffoons and the just plain stupid

I think we all know which category the Mittster belongs to.

[mwb970]

26. They really are getting crazy now, aren't they?

Each day brings news of some new idiotic thing that some Republican somewhere said or did. They seem determined to achieve permanent irrelevancy.

More power to 'em.

[villager]

17. Wow, he makes it sound like a Republican convention....

n/t

[devilgrrl]

19. OT: I need to know how they figured out that 29,000 were actual sex offenders....

seriesly!!!

[lpbk2713]

32. They cross-referenced their names to a master RNC contributor list.

Sure enough .... it didn't take long to come up with 19,000 pre-verts.

[killbotfactory]

20. They need their tubes blocked.

[radfringe]

21. excuse the :tinfoilhat:

but I don't think it may have been just an accident...

Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.

The web site MySpace is the one to which Romney actually was referring. MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said this week it had found 29,000 registered sex offenders who had submitted profiles to its site and removed them.

I suspect Romney wanted to drape himself in "values", but did not want to sully Murdoch/FAUX....

toss in the reports about the republic candidates declining or considering declining participation in YOUTUBE debate - it gives them the (mis)-excuse of not wanting to support groups which promote sex offenders...

if confronted about this error -- they'll blame it on mis-speak, an honest mistake... kinda like when bush/cheney/snowjob "misspeak"...

[Ian David]

24. I believe the "mistake" was intentional. And stop calling it MySpace...

Call it MurdochSpace.

[piesRsquare]

22. The Republican Party is a cult

They're resembling Scientology more and more each day.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

23. Mr. mitt..... the GOP had 29,000 sex offenders in their

ranks.... prolly still have.

[TalkingDog]

36. *rim-shot* ba-duh-dum! ting!

*spit-take* Pffft!!!!!....

[durrrty libby]

25. Mitt is scared to death of answering questions from the people,

so he is looking for any excuse to justify an opt-out

[FloridaJudy]

27. BWAhaahaahaaaa! Snort

:spray: :rofl:

No, Mit. It's a series of tubes (and I'm series!!111!)

[rosesaylavee]

28. So this means that not only doesn't Mitt understand

the internet tubes but no one else working on his campaign has a clue either.

Good luck Mittens. You will need it.

[spanone]

29. yea, sounds like he was surfing the youtubes.....

[formercia]

30. Hidden Agenda?

"Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night."

I'm sure Google has a legal staff that can address this issue. :evilgrin:

[blogslut]

33. kick

:)

[C_U_L8R]

34. Whatta Complete Nincompoop!

Doesn't know his MySpace from his YouTube... bwhahaha.

Does he know his ass from his elbow ???

[struggle4progress]

37. Thanks! I wuz wonderin where all them disgraced Republicans had goed to after gettin caught

[momster]

38. Next He'll Be Amazed By Supermarket Scanner

Where have we seen this level of confusion before? I don't use either myspace or youtube, being a fogey first class, yet I do know the diff. I think ol' Mitt's been inhaling a little too much of the hairspray they use to keep his head shellacked.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

39. www dot romney dot nut

:P

[mitchum]

40. What a moroni!

[Beelzebud]

41. YouTube/Google should sue him for slander.