Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:30 PM

MindPilot (10,789 posts)

Mitt doesn't understand why the windows don't open in a jet airplane.

Yes, folks he is now officially stupider than W.

Comments made at a Beverly Hills fund-raiser when asked about Ann's in-flight emergency:

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”

An of course the usual bullshit that conservatives are persona non grata in oh-so-liberal-Hollywood.

"I know in some of the communities around this particular hotel it’s hard to let people know you’re conservative without them looking at you funny," Romney said, before noting that he had lunch with “a very famous actor — very famous. Very liberal. I won’t tell you his name or he’d shoot me… He pulled me aside, he said, ‘In this town, you really can’t get work unless you’re known as a liberal,’ and he said, ‘But no one knows how I really vote.’ And there are a lot of people that feel that way.”

From the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-beverly-hills-fundraiser-20120922,0,2317962.story

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Mitt doesn't understand why the windows don't open in a jet airplane. (Original post)	MindPilot	Sep 2012	OP
REALLY, Mitt? Omigod.	CaliforniaPeggy	Sep 2012	#1
Do you think he knows there's not much oxygen up there anyway?	Barack_America	Sep 2012	#97
That's my question..	Why Syzygy	Sep 2012	#160
Oxygen is not fuel for a fire	ashling	Sep 2012	#162
Yeah, why NOT a wing window, like they used to have in cars. Duhhhhh	dixiegrrrrl	Sep 2012	#109
That's frighteningly stupid	Warpy	Sep 2012	#2
and it would feed the fire	Angry Dragon	Sep 2012	#3
Mitt is too stupid to understand the basics of aviation.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2012	#12
thank for typing this so i don't have to...	Blue_Tires	Sep 2012	#129
Don't worry; it's physically impossible to open airplane doors	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2012	#13
you can't make anything foolproof	Warpy	Sep 2012	#70
True, but opening airplane doors isn't that easy	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2012	#72
There was one incident that happened on the cargo plane I worked on in the Air Force	cpwm17	Sep 2012	#96
This was an aircraft that was mostly depressurized already	Major Nikon	Sep 2012	#115
Exactly	cpwm17	Sep 2012	#154
What's more frightening is that he thinks it a problem.	MindPilot	Sep 2012	#14
OMG! Too funny!	sammytko	Sep 2012	#23
Pay for it by cutting insulin subsidies at schools for terminally diabetic children	demwing	Sep 2012	#76
Good one!	classof56	Sep 2012	#90
A problem for him to invest his personal millions in.	Barack_America	Sep 2012	#107
"No Passenger Left Behind" as they are sucked out into the atmosphere at 30,000 feet.	Arugula Latte	Sep 2012	#145
I'm convinced his diplomas were bought and paid for by dad..n/t	monmouth	Sep 2012	#19
Actually, I think his dad had more integrity than that	demwing	Sep 2012	#79
Someone SHOULD ask...	Plucketeer	Sep 2012	#84
...and that breeze would be 50-60 degrees below zero.	MercutioATC	Sep 2012	#27
But don't you see? It would put the fire out.	kestrel91316	Sep 2012	#39
Yeah, but those jet engines are noisy.	MercutioATC	Sep 2012	#41
What's really truly frighteningly stupid...	amerciti001	Sep 2012	#167
Love it. "I had lunch with a secretly conservative Liberal (can't tell you his name)". . .	Journeyman	Sep 2012	#4
Clint Eastwood. :>)	pangaia	Sep 2012	#46
Um...hello? Clint spoke at the R. Convention. And no way is Mel Brooks not a Democrat!	WinkyDink	Sep 2012	#52
Mel Brooks? I hadn't heard that before. nt	Cha	Sep 2012	#88
Mel recently turned Republican	Texas-Limerick	Sep 2012	#149
link, please? this seems astonishingly unlikely. n/t	eggplant	Sep 2012	#166
It was tongue in cheek	Texas-Limerick	Sep 2012	#170
Wait a sec,...Who exactly was claiming WE "think they're victims"?	Spitfire of ATJ	Sep 2012	#73
Well, Mitt thinks he is a victim because he isn't Latino. He says being Latino would	tblue37	Sep 2012	#101
Naw,...it drips too much...	Spitfire of ATJ	Sep 2012	#103
Kelsey Grammer is a well-known conservative as well. nt	NickB79	Sep 2012	#125
yeah, but like all whiny republicans he complains ... that he's no longer a-list since he "came out"	unblock	Sep 2012	#126
he had already come out when he won multiple emmys	JI7	Sep 2012	#175
yup. still, he complains....	unblock	Sep 2012	#177
What about those mask-like apparati that fall from the thing over your head?	DollarBillHines	Sep 2012	#5
That's what I thought - has he never flown commercially?	treestar	Sep 2012	#28
Private aircraft do have them.	DollarBillHines	Sep 2012	#36
About 15 years ago, my sister was on a flight that landed with such a hard bump that the oxygen mask	gkhouston	Sep 2012	#100
Yep, each one drops down in front of you along with a private EMT.	Indpndnt	Sep 2012	#111
You only need them because	Jackpine Radical	Sep 2012	#30
Maybe they could install some ventilated box-type units on the roof.	DollarBillHines	Sep 2012	#38
Oxygen masks on airliners only deploy in case of cabin depressurization, what you need for smoke....	LongTomH	Sep 2012	#156
I was looking for The Onion link	demtenjeep	Sep 2012	#6
Aparently he has never seen this...	MindPilot	Sep 2012	#9
Ummm... that's been debunked many times.	PavePusher	Sep 2012	#65
Oh come on...	MindPilot	Sep 2012	#86
My bad. I'm up past my brain's bed-time.	PavePusher	Sep 2012	#108
Well, sort of...	Hissyspit	Sep 2012	#119
Yikes! Maybe I'll stop trying to get a window seat when I fly.	FailureToCommunicate	Sep 2012	#151
Just don't sleep leaning against the window/wall. n/t	PavePusher	Sep 2012	#163
Damn, didn't realize you beat me to it!	robertpaulsen	Sep 2012	#143
Now wait just a damn minute.	nolabear	Sep 2012	#7
It seems that he doesn't know how to put out a fire.	slampoet	Sep 2012	#8
Feed it oxygen and fires go out. Everyone knows this.	Ikonoklast	Sep 2012	#32
good lord.	renate	Sep 2012	#10
Yes, why does he think he knows better?	treestar	Sep 2012	#71
Sooo?	DemKittyNC	Sep 2012	#11
If I could rec your post a brazillion times I would. Some coffee on keyboard but that's ok..LOL..n/	monmouth	Sep 2012	#21
Mitts response: well, thats what dogs do in a car when they're not tied to the roof, so why can't a	CAG	Sep 2012	#26
HA!	Aeroette	Sep 2012	#60
hehe	DemKittyNC	Sep 2012	#66
Seamus had lots of fresh air, and he never caught on fire once.	JBoy	Sep 2012	#93
And this guy wants to be president? Wow, just... wow.	Initech	Sep 2012	#15
That is amazingly stupid.	Bluenorthwest	Sep 2012	#16
He still calls it an aircraft	Mponti	Sep 2012	#17
This drives Chris Matthews absolutely crazy!	tallahasseedem	Sep 2012	#57
He can be Dick-tater of Dumbfuckistan. Nt	PCIntern	Sep 2012	#18
Oh now I would really like to see a Survivor show starring Twit Mitt.	Kalidurga	Sep 2012	#20
Heck, Gilligan's Island would be good enough.	hunter	Sep 2012	#24
yep, with Ryan as Gilligan	CrazyOrangeCat	Sep 2012	#43
My God, HOW COULD ANYONE want him for a president..he	onecent	Sep 2012	#22
Mitt's preferred form of travel	chowder66	Sep 2012	#25
How convient! Some actor said that to him, but Mitt "can't" tell us who it was. Uh, huh. nt	patrice	Sep 2012	#29
And this idiot wants to be our president? He makes Jr. look like a genius.	appleannie1	Sep 2012	#31
Mitt is lying through his pearlies. That "Liberal actor" story made the rounds on gossip sites	WinkyDink	Sep 2012	#33
Photo of Romney with this caption needed!	frogmarch	Sep 2012	#34
I thought the cockpit ones did	ryan_cats	Sep 2012	#35
They do. Most airplanes have cockpit side windows that can be opened	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2012	#50
Shhh! They don't tell Mitt that they open...	pinboy3niner	Sep 2012	#77
fwiw, here is info and photo of the plane type. Idiot, cruises @ 529 mph	uppityperson	Sep 2012	#37
LOL Presidential candidate's wife rockin' a CANADIAN-MADE airframe!	Blue_Tires	Sep 2012	#133
Maybe he needs a convertible plane.............	thelordofhell	Sep 2012	#40
Two things....	Cali_Democrat	Sep 2012	#42
Take him to 30k feet and blow the hatch.	liberal N proud	Sep 2012	#44
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Sep 2012	#49
LOL!	Jennicut	Sep 2012	#98
OMG...!!	ailsagirl	Sep 2012	#45
PROOF that Romney LIED with that "actor" story (BESIDES the obvious counter-example of Clint!):	WinkyDink	Sep 2012	#47
Let's not forget these celebrities...	Spitfire of ATJ	Sep 2012	#81
Diane Keaton wore the "Annie Hall" hat to the WH? Cool!...or something...	Ken Burch	Sep 2012	#92
Hell, even REAGAN was a Hollywood Republican	tarheelsunc	Sep 2012	#136
Isn't that Tony Bennett to the right of Dudley Moore?	redqueen	Sep 2012	#137
I thought so too.	Spitfire of ATJ	Sep 2012	#142
No, that's Gary Morton, Lucille Ball's husband	SemperEadem	Sep 2012	#147
Ah, thanks.	redqueen	Sep 2012	#153
Sounds like he was exaggerating for dramatic effect.	Ruby the Liberal	Sep 2012	#48
Mitt has no common sense.	oldbanjo	Sep 2012	#51
Reminiscent of his	Laurajr	Sep 2012	#53
Didn't Payne Stewart die because his window DID open? or at least the seals failed?	angstlessk	Sep 2012	#54
Google is your friend. "Undetermined reasons."	WinkyDink	Sep 2012	#59
EXACTLY...depressurazation...open windows would cause that at high altitudes!	angstlessk	Sep 2012	#62
How can you say 'Undetermined reasons." when what you link to says	angstlessk	Sep 2012	#63
Why did it lose pressure?	whopis01	Sep 2012	#114
No. The likely cause was a failure of the pressurization system.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2012	#69
+1	Blue_Tires	Sep 2012	#131
I urge Romney to attempt to open an aircraft window in flight. I'm sure he'll	Proles	Sep 2012	#55
I know I would be! ;) nt	tblue37	Sep 2012	#102
K&R nt	avebury	Sep 2012	#56
Please tell mehow you get into Harvard grad school not knowing this...	CTyankee	Sep 2012	#58
My sister has a Doctors Degree, but has no common sense.	oldbanjo	Sep 2012	#64
Are they the ones that open the doors on the subs?	Rozlee	Sep 2012	#157
Well THIS ought to scare you: I have met a significant number of physicians over	kestrel91316	Sep 2012	#85
By having a wealthy, connected father.	Marr	Sep 2012	#110
Mittens, I think we all wish those windows did open.	Curmudgeoness	Sep 2012	#61
Why, did he fart?	Freddie	Sep 2012	#67
The man's about as sharp as a bowling ball... n/t	backscatter712	Sep 2012	#68
There's a silver lining here...	DreamGypsy	Sep 2012	#74
I am sick of these motherfucking snakes	central scrutinizer	Sep 2012	#113
Yeah, where's Samuel Jackson when you need him?	cascadiance	Sep 2012	#135
Oh dear. This just gets worser and worser.	AllyCat	Sep 2012	#75
Help me, DU! I'm on the verge of feeling sorry for this numbnuts!	Arugula Latte	Sep 2012	#78
He needs to join Arthur Weasley's project of finding out how airplanes stay up n/t	eridani	Sep 2012	#80
If only airplanes had O2 masks above each seat. nt	ZombieHorde	Sep 2012	#82
Pssst - I know who the actor was	ThoughtCriminal	Sep 2012	#83
yeah, open the window for the dumb ass ...	YOHABLO	Sep 2012	#87
I bet mitt's Lying his head off about "the liberal voter"..	Cha	Sep 2012	#89
The science is weak with this one. MMMmmm, yes... n/t	4lbs	Sep 2012	#91
Yup. Somewhere in the vastness of the cosmos,	sarge43	Sep 2012	#176
I think Mitt SHOULD have a campaign plane where the windows open	jmowreader	Sep 2012	#94
He's officially a MORON. He probably doesn't know how the radio works with	valerief	Sep 2012	#95
Wow. He's just a dim bulb, isn't he?	TwilightGardener	Sep 2012	#99
this is just the cherry on top	nycbiscuit	Sep 2012	#104
Maybe the windows to his plane SHOULD open--in midair	meow2u3	Sep 2012	#105
LMAO, that was just hilarious! xD	AverageJoe90	Sep 2012	#106
Does he also think they need to put screen doors on submarines? nt	BarackTheVote	Sep 2012	#112
I zipped through the comments, waiting for a punchline that said this was a joke	spiderpig	Sep 2012	#116
They couldn't open the windows	DearAbby	Sep 2012	#117
No no no you must NEVER refer to it as an airplane it's "airCRAFT" just as it's NEVER sports	Raine	Sep 2012	#118
kick	kestrel91316	Sep 2012	#120
.	Barack_America	Sep 2012	#132
Well what's next?	Dread Pirate Roberts	Sep 2012	#121
That would explain why Gary Oldman, Kelsey Grammar, and Clint Eastwood can't find work.	Bucky	Sep 2012	#122
Not to mention the drop in temperature	nichomachus	Sep 2012	#123
He should add this to his platform.	LisaL	Sep 2012	#124
Did Mitt mistake the "Airplane" comedy movie as a documentary on how to handle aircraft emergencies?	Larkspur	Sep 2012	#127
That's as effing stupid as Reagan's "tree pollution" inanity.	Arugula Latte	Sep 2012	#128
A friend just explained it. It's all a matter of economics	nichomachus	Sep 2012	#130
next he'll want screen doors in submarines.nt	Javaman	Sep 2012	#134
Damndest thing, planes don't have external luggage racks either!	chknltl	Sep 2012	#138
Shit Mitt, haven't you ever seen Goldfinger?	robertpaulsen	Sep 2012	#139
Probably because the Big Government FAA won't allow it.	Doctor_J	Sep 2012	#140
Damn Regulations!	Marie Marie	Sep 2012	#150
This is exactly the kind of overy burdensome regulation that Obama has	Doctor_J	Sep 2012	#178
Oh My F**king God!!	uponit7771	Sep 2012	#141
You will be	SunsetDreams	Sep 2012	#159
Mitt and Ann should fly bi-planes in the future	LondonReign2	Sep 2012	#144
With seamus in a cage on the wing	SmittynMo	Sep 2012	#164
No one can be this stupid.	SmittynMo	Sep 2012	#165
Mitt Romney's Decompression Airlines	Evasporque	Sep 2012	#146
There are so many things wrong with this	taught_me_patience	Sep 2012	#148
Mittens is going to put The Onion out of business!	LongTomH	Sep 2012	#152
I'd be glad to install a sliding class door on willards plane, no charge	ruffburr	Sep 2012	#155
I thought this was an Onion story.	DCBob	Sep 2012	#158
I actually thought Mitt was kinda smart at first	War Horse	Sep 2012	#161
One would think he might have picked up on that after playing	SirRevolutionary	Sep 2012	#168
Saw the text below in the comments at Think Progress ... LOL	Tx4obama	Sep 2012	#169
Crazy, man. Crazy	MrScorpio	Sep 2012	#171
K & R	Care Acutely	Sep 2012	#172
..	Jamaal510	Sep 2012	#173
Mitt Romney: The gift that keeps giving.	KANTANA	Sep 2012	#174
Ummmmm...Willard.....	polmaven	Sep 2012	#179

Response to MindPilot (Original post)

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:32 PM

CaliforniaPeggy (103,914 posts)

Mitt doesn't understand why the windows don't open in a jet airplane.

1. REALLY, Mitt? Omigod.

97. Do you think he knows there's not much oxygen up there anyway?

160. That's my question..

162. Oxygen is not fuel for a fire

109. Yeah, why NOT a wing window, like they used to have in cars. Duhhhhh

2. That's frighteningly stupid

3. and it would feed the fire

12. Mitt is too stupid to understand the basics of aviation.

129. thank for typing this so i don't have to...

13. Don't worry; it's physically impossible to open airplane doors

70. you can't make anything foolproof

72. True, but opening airplane doors isn't that easy

96. There was one incident that happened on the cargo plane I worked on in the Air Force

115. This was an aircraft that was mostly depressurized already

154. Exactly

14. What's more frightening is that he thinks it a problem.

23. OMG! Too funny!

76. Pay for it by cutting insulin subsidies at schools for terminally diabetic children

90. Good one!

107. A problem for him to invest his personal millions in.

145. "No Passenger Left Behind" as they are sucked out into the atmosphere at 30,000 feet.

19. I'm convinced his diplomas were bought and paid for by dad..n/t

79. Actually, I think his dad had more integrity than that

84. Someone SHOULD ask...

27. ...and that breeze would be 50-60 degrees below zero.

39. But don't you see? It would put the fire out.

41. Yeah, but those jet engines are noisy.

167. What's really truly frighteningly stupid...

4. Love it. "I had lunch with a secretly conservative Liberal (can't tell you his name)". . .

46. Clint Eastwood. :>)

52. Um...hello? Clint spoke at the R. Convention. And no way is Mel Brooks not a Democrat!

88. Mel Brooks? I hadn't heard that before. nt

149. Mel recently turned Republican

166. link, please? this seems astonishingly unlikely. n/t

170. It was tongue in cheek

73. Wait a sec,...Who exactly was claiming WE "think they're victims"?

101. Well, Mitt thinks he is a victim because he isn't Latino. He says being Latino would

103. Naw,...it drips too much...

125. Kelsey Grammer is a well-known conservative as well. nt

126. yeah, but like all whiny republicans he complains ... that he's no longer a-list since he "came out"

175. he had already come out when he won multiple emmys

177. yup. still, he complains....

5. What about those mask-like apparati that fall from the thing over your head?

28. That's what I thought - has he never flown commercially?

36. Private aircraft do have them.

100. About 15 years ago, my sister was on a flight that landed with such a hard bump that the oxygen mask

111. Yep, each one drops down in front of you along with a private EMT.

30. You only need them because

38. Maybe they could install some ventilated box-type units on the roof.

156. Oxygen masks on airliners only deploy in case of cabin depressurization, what you need for smoke....

6. I was looking for The Onion link

9. Aparently he has never seen this...

65. Ummm... that's been debunked many times.

86. Oh come on...

108. My bad. I'm up past my brain's bed-time.

119. Well, sort of...

151. Yikes! Maybe I'll stop trying to get a window seat when I fly.

163. Just don't sleep leaning against the window/wall. n/t

143. Damn, didn't realize you beat me to it!

7. Now wait just a damn minute.

8. It seems that he doesn't know how to put out a fire.

32. Feed it oxygen and fires go out. Everyone knows this.

10. good lord.

71. Yes, why does he think he knows better?

11. Sooo?

21. If I could rec your post a brazillion times I would. Some coffee on keyboard but that's ok..LOL..n/

26. Mitts response: well, thats what dogs do in a car when they're not tied to the roof, so why can't a

60. HA!

66. hehe

93. Seamus had lots of fresh air, and he never caught on fire once.

15. And this guy wants to be president? Wow, just... wow.

16. That is amazingly stupid.

17. He still calls it an aircraft

57. This drives Chris Matthews absolutely crazy!

18. He can be Dick-tater of Dumbfuckistan. Nt

20. Oh now I would really like to see a Survivor show starring Twit Mitt.

24. Heck, Gilligan's Island would be good enough.

43. yep, with Ryan as Gilligan

22. My God, HOW COULD ANYONE want him for a president..he

102. I know I would be! ;) nt