Hilarity: Mitt Romney Loves ‘Wawas’
As we mentioned this morning, presidential candidate Mitt Romney strolled into Pennsylvania this weekend for a little campaigning in Bucks County. He was supposed to head to a Quakertown Wawa for a shorti and a bag of Herr’s (probably), but soon found out former Governor Ed Rendell was there, to yell at him. So, he re-routed on his Googles, and went to a different Wawa, also in Quakertown. Afterwards, he was so impressed by the convenience of the convenience store, he had to talk all about it — and add to the hilarity that is Mitt Romney’s rich guy out-of-touchness. Check it out:
So: 1) Not only does Mitt Romney call Wawa, a store he just came from, ‘Wawas,’ but 2) he is amazed by the hoagie shop’s touch-screen ordering, a la President George H.W. Bush’s 1992 campaign stop at a supermarket, in which he was amazed by the grocery scanner. Here’s a transcript of the above MSNBC video.
Romney: “By the way, where do you get your hoagies here? Do you get them at Wawas? Is that where you get them?”
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“Well, I went to a place today called Wawas. You ever been to Wawas? Anybody ever been there? Some people don’t—I’m sorry, I know it’s a very big state divide, but we went to Wawas.”
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“I was at Wawas, I wanted to order a sandwich. You press the little touchtone keypad, alright? You just touch that and, you know, the sandwich comes in, you touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there’s your sandwich! It’s amazing.”
Note to the Romney Campaign: They’re not laughing with you.
UPDATE: I just wrote this on Twitter, but figured I’d share it here, too. It’s sort of relevant:
On that note, as a former Wawa employee, I can tell you the touch-screen ordering is not amazing. Whether a customer orders 1 hoagie or 15, it’s a one employee to one customer ratio. Makes for totally uneven workload/delays. (Although they may have changed that since I worked there.)
Oh, and Andrew Kaczynski notes the touch-screens are made in China.
Many on the Internet are making a Romney-esque faux pas with this story. It’s not WaWa. It’s Wawa.
UPDATE 2: Yep, MSNBC edited the video to make Romney seem like he was a bit more impressed with the fancy gadgetry than he really was. Nevertheless, 1) He was impressed, in spite of the “capitalism is awesome” moral of his story, 2) “Wawas,” 3) “Wawas” — seriously. Wawas. And 4) As a commenter points out below, “touch tone.”
This is the sort of thing the right will attempt to twist into a “liberal media sucks” story because of the video edits to deflect the attention from Romney’s comments. The video may mischaracterize, but does not misrepresent.
so, a man who, if elected, would arguably hold the fate of the world in his hands, in terms of nuclear warheads at his command, is this blown away by the fucking touch-screens at wawa. wow. i mean, really. just…wow.
Lol and “touchtone” means it makes a sound when you press, not the same as touchscreen.
Get the facts straight. Msnbc edited it. Do your homework and listen to the unedited version and form your own opinion on what he said. Msnbc edited 16 seconds out. see link on politico…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/06/msnbc-misportrays-romneys-wawa-remarks-126545.html
Check out the Romney at the Wawa meme generator.
http://memegenerator.net/Romney-At-The-Wawa
Great stuff
The lying left strikes again. So you make another edited tape to tell a lie. Show the whole tape so your readers can see what evil people you are.
You are sick.
“The video may mischaracterize, but does not misrepresent.”
Right, thinking the touchscreen was amazing; thinking the difference between private sector efficiency and public sector bureaucracy is amazing.
Same exact thing with no difference to be found.
Yep, I see no reason to doubt you; clearly those are the exact same comment without any question or criticism.
So, have you personally written this up an “in kind donation” to the Obama campaign, or does your employer do that for you?
It does damn well misrepresent. This “fake but accurate” attitude went out with Dan Rather. You should hang your head in shame at your hackery.
Not amused. In fact I’d say that this particularly deceptive edit pretty much well backfired on MSNBC. Also pretty much well illustrates MSNBCs ideological bent as the liberal mirror of Fox news.
Also in regards to your last edit I’d say that you’ve pretty much succeeded at proving that liberal media sucks. No need for me to point it out.
I will just add my own voice to the chorus here – MSNBC edited the tape with the intention of swaying political opinion. This sort of dishonesty is disgusting.
This ticks me off to no end! You lie! this clip has NOTHING to do with how Romney was amazed by a touch screen at Wawas! Its about how the government cant get a job done for some small business owner quickly or efficiently (what Romney was talking about BEFORE this edited piece of liberal agenda propaganda BS), because they have nobody to compete with, so they have all the power to be as in-efficient as they want, with no re-percussion. Where as a business like Wawas has to compete with other stores, so they have to be quick and efficient to get the job done, or lose a customer…aka free market capitalism > big government regulation…kinda like how i NEVER watch your BS of a news network…because there are other networks i can chose to get my news from…and by pushing your evil agenda’s you just keep the chains wrapped around your necks and drag the rest of America down with you…hope you feel good about taking that side…might pay the bills now…but your the ones leading the sheep right off the cliff for the wolfs…hope you people feel good about that…karma’s a b*tch tho…
Hey PhillyNow: Not everybody lives on the East Coast so we can’t know how your regional convenience store is spelled when it’s mentioned on radio. Here we have the supermarket chain “Ingles” (pronounced Een-Guls). Northeasterners come here and call it Eng-Lays like the Spanish word for English. We just roll our eyes.