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The video appears to have been shot from behind a water canteen, and at the beginning of the video a man who is dressed like a servant can be heard drawing water. One of the donors would have had a hard time getting to that area, and one of the servants would have noticed the camera.
It was probably some dude making $8 an hour fetching water for some jerk who is worth billions.
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valerief
(53,235 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)....we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us"
-your welcome
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)"The help" is also part of the people you look down upon and most certainly don't appreciate your disdain.
Lucky they didn't spit in your food or serve you a Terrible, Awful Chocolate Pie.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)I'm so impressed that this got out, can't you tell?!!
ETA: I can't imagine having to work for people or have to serve people who talk/act like this. Hopefully they/he/she was well compensated.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)The person was probably from some catering service and assigned to work that party.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Go in through the back entrance, remain silent, don't you dare look your masters in the eye, and don't speak unless you're spoken to!
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Makes me sick.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)n/t
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)I think so too. I wouldn't be surprised if this came from someone in the wait staff.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)And that person got more than he/she ever dreamed of.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)And that the waiter doesn't bother about blocking his view for a while.
Even if he made a bundle he is my hero and I hope someday we can hear the story.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)She passes in front of the camera, the camera is adjusted, she comes back around.
edit: Plus, the first 2 YouTube accounts where the video was posted were under fake female names.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)If you watch the whole tape it's obvious who it is.
I only say this because I'm sure all the people at the center
of it have to know already who it is. If you watch the whole
tape carefully, and, especially, say, if you lived in the house
or had anything to do with the staff and whose station was whose,
you already know who it is.
Also, I think a lot of people looked at the tape (at Mother Jones)
before they added back in the part that had been inadvertently
cut out at the very beginning of the first tape, where the guy
is actually first setting up the camera as Romney begins speaking.
But that's not where the obviousness arises.
In the first half of the tape the guy looks right at the camera, checking it
as he passes. In the second half he picks up the decanter, pours at the
table, comes back to his station behind or to the side of the table
the camera is on. Also, he adjusts the camera numerous times in each half.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)I like to see more servants put these rich bastards in their place!
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)he surely knew they were but he was speaking as if they couldn't hear nor understand what was being said.
that's something that bothers me about him, in addition to the crapload of bad policy he's proposing.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Literally or metaphorically.
How much you want to bet most of them are in the 47%?
(And don't say $10,000. )
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)they always assume that
1) everyone else is stupid and
2) the poor are way too stupid to affect any kind of justice upon them.
F*wads like Romney just *know* that - - - until they don't
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)They REALLY DO believe this.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Thank you for pointing out the obvious. Sorry, that sounds rude of me, but it was not even a question for me when I saw the video.
That also explains why the undercover video had a delay getting traction on youtube. It took a while for anyone in the media to notice. That's because it was shot by a random amateur Democrat working a catering gig. It could have even been a DUer!
kentuck
(111,104 posts)and make an effort not to get in front of the camera? I think more than one person knew about the camera?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Not that it wasn't common knowledge before, but sometimes you just gotta provide the truth.
A new nominee for Mount Rushmore.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)in his "elegant" parody version of Mitt's talk.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419186/september-18-2012/mitt-romney-s-secret-video?xrs=share_copy
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)Gin
(7,212 posts)If it was a phone.....it did a good job....picture quality was good too....I wondered if the camera was in some obscure item.....like spy shops sell.....wouldnt a camera be obvious?