his career when his employment was not a sure thing. mitt romney is obviously a target out here on the campaign trail. and at an event earlier this evening, an exiter, there were some protesters at an event that he was at with chris christie, one of his top surrogates and there were protesters yelling mitt kills jobs, mitt kills jobs. basically talking about mitt romney s days as the heads of bain capital, a venture capital firm that, at times, did downsize some companies and then those same protesters tried to go after chris christie and said christie kills jobs. they were changing christie kills jobs and that s when the new jersey governor went after those protesters. here s what he had to say. americans are right to be angry and disappointed in a government that in washington, d.c. is doing nothing but posturing and bickering and solving nothing. for the people who wind up needing needing to get this
and then chris christie went up on stage and the protesters started doing the same thing, christie kills jobs, christie kills jobs. i don t know if we have the sound ready to play it, but we can play it if we have it ready for you. chris christie had a pretty chris christie-type response to the hecklers. let s play it for you now. americans are right to be angry. they re right to be disappointed in the government that in washington, d.c. is doing nothing but posturing and bickering and solving nothing for the people who wind up needing christie kills jobs! christie kills jobs! really? you know, some may go down tonight, but it ain t going to be jobs, sweetheart. reporter: so there you have it. a very chris christie-style
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if he didn t get the rest of the world out, i m still not giving him a discount. here s the thing. would you have the same assessment, you believe, if it was a democrat or if it was an african-american candidate who said the same thing? without question. all right. there you go. people have seen me go toe to toe with others. thank you very much. i think that needs to be said. when we get into these situations, there s a lot of, you know, oh, they re going after rick santorum because he s liberal or because he s thank you. let s move on to newt gingrich. a comment he made on thursday. listen. i m prepared, if the naacp invites me, i ll go to their convention and talk about why the african-american community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. now, he did say it was taken out of context. and if you listen to his explanation, yeah, i can sort of understand what he says. quite honestly, he said it was taken out of context and that it was the elite
i see, and i ve looked at it several times, i was starting to say one word and i sort of came up with a different word and moved on. this is the result of running with scissors. this is here s the thing, and i m sure people at home would say, just because they re black, they re liberal, whatever, they don t know our politics. you know, they see we re african-american. the tape plays a story. if you play the tape, you hear what he said. so what gives here? the narrative that seems to be coming out of this gop field seems to be that we don t want to give our hard-earn dollars to people who don t work, to people who are lazy, to people who are, you know, involved in criminal behavior, to other people who have not earned what we have earned. that seems to be what newt gingrich is saying. that seems to be what ron paul has been saying. it certainly seems to be what our friend, rick santorum, was saying on that tape.