or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i ll bring you the results later in the show. joining me now is political commentator and satirist martin lewis, also a contributor to the huffington post. welcome, my friend. hello. look, just how big of a mess has mitt romney gotten himself into? well, it s a big pile of mitt, frankly. it s really difficult because i have to say, for the first time in his life practically, on one level, mitt romney might actually be correct. the british organization of the olympics has not been that great and it s conceivable that there will be some big blunders. however, it is not the job of an american politician to come to britain and say that. that s our job to criticize ourselves. we don t need an american. it would be as though a british socialist politician would go to america and say that america s economic woes were as a result of all the vulture capitalists such as mitt romney and his cronies at bain capital that
i understand his belief and respect his position. and if someone respectfully disagrees with him-e ain t mad either. hear me, black folk, save your exasperation and your indignation for the president s real haters. i ain t one of them. how do i know? because he told me so at the olympic warm-up game the other day in d.c., when he hugged me and thanked me for my love and support. when you get it at that level, holla back at me. tonight in our survey i asked you did mitt romney fail his first international audition? 98% say yes. 2% say no. coming up, bill o reilly says americans are weak because we help the poor. the bizarre criticism about welfare and yo work ethic when we come back. we know a place where tossing and turning
the united states are what s more important and the foreign stuff doesn t matter. what s interesting about that, of course, is it kind of undermines the entire reason for romney to go overseas. you mentioned that his trip was a lot about bolstering himself up, but another part of his trip and a key part of his trip was also showing where republicans and romney specifically has said that obama has failed in foreign policy, and they definitely think that the way the foreign press and foreign leaders look at the united states are important. but they come back after some bad headlines for their guy and they say no, no, no, none of this is important, doesn t matter, it s the economy still, domestic issues that are important. pay no attention to the trip. how convenient. and if the foreign press ain t so important, why do they give out the golden globes every year? is this a sneak peek at how romney would handle foreign affairs? well, you know, like i said, think that that is that s up
he did succeed in making prince philip look like lil wayne. but i m really scared he s going to go over to israel next week and say the wailing wall is meshugennah. mitt romney s been going around for a year lying about the president and saying he s apologized for america. now america has to apologize for mitt romney. oy vey. romney s campaign was hoping his appearance at the opening ceremony friday would spark warm and fuzzy memories of his time running the salt lake games in 2002. i don t know, jimmy, is that idea done for him? you would think having run the olympics he would know a little bit better. listen, i have read etiquette books. and i can tell you that the uk has, what, 63 million people of which i think 92% are white. so for the first time in mitt romney s life he has managed to do something very bad in the etiquette book. he has ticked off 63 million white people. that is not a smart thing for someone to do, especially when he s in their country visiting them and meeti
it was supposed to be his easy one. first thing out of the gates, he screwed it up. what s he got to fall back on? yeah, he ain t getting no gold medal here, is he, jimmy? so how bad is it? could it be the worst day of romney s campaign? no, no, no, no, no. that would be like the weather outside here in new york, which would be like a downpour. what we are seeing with mitt romney is a steady trickle of gaffe after gaffe after gaffe, which is also known as flip-flop after flip-flop after flip-flop. i hope he s not meeting the queen or prince philip. that would be somewhat devastating. he probably might give her a bear hug or something. which by the way, just to give you some advice, mitt romney, don t touch the queen unless she extends her hand. it s just not a good thing to do. jimmy, i want to interject for a second, jimmy, and point out that mitt romney didn t build these gaffes on his own. okay? he had a staff. he had advisers. and they all helped him create these gaffes. he d