Romney Spokesman: "Kiss My Ass"
Rick Gorker made the comments to reporters while Romney visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw.
A Mitt Romney spokesman reprimanded reporters traveling with the candidate on his six-day foreign trip, telling them to "kiss my a**" after they shouted questions from behind a rope line.
As Romney left the site of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw and walked toward his motorcade parked in Pilsudski Square, reporters began shouting questions from the line where campaign staffers had told them to stay behind, prompting traveling press secretary Rick Gorka to tell a group of reporters to "kiss my a**" and "shove it."
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Will this be the first non-gay Romney has to fire from his campaign? Let's watch...
This newsfeed would be fine if it wasn't killing the A.M. Links. Also, what an ass.
I am partly amused and partly indifferent. Reporters being jackasses is not exactly new but Romney is not running for a spot on the local water board. Someone tell Gorka to grow a thicker skin.
The reporter was heard to have replied, "big time."
I am not sure what to take from this. Without knowing the questions he was responding to I cannot decide if the guy is an ass or a hero.
I would probably respond in the same way to most of the reporters I have seen....but then I am an ass.
Glad to see that Willard is already surrounding himself with Top Men?.