I’m pretty sure that Ayn Rand’s first law of political action was to show up late to soup kitchens and fake-wash their clean dishes.
This shows compassion without any necessity to worry about getting lice.
“Had they asked for permission, it wouldn’t have been granted. … But I certainly wouldn’t have let him wash clean pans, and then take a picture.”
The Ryans were at this location for a mere 15 minutes. It was just enough time to don the aprons they brought with them and pretend to clean their kitchen. Of course, the charity’s bylaws precluded them from hosting political candidates or taking any partisan positions. The Ryans should never have come on the property in the first place.
This is what people who have contempt for the poor do when they try to show that they actually care.
The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group’s Youngstown soup kitchen so that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan could get his picture taken washing dishes in the dining hall.
Brian J. Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, said that he was not contacted by the Romney campaign ahead of the Saturday morning visit by Ryan, who stopped by the soup kitchen after a town hall at Youngstown State University.
“We’re a faith-based organization; we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations,” Antal said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “It’s strictly in our bylaws not to do it. They showed up there, and they did not have permission. They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors.”
He added: “The photo-op they did wasn’t even accurate. He did nothing. He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.”
I will leave you with some scripture that Paul Ryan should already be familiar with but apparently doesn’t care about.
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” – Gospel According to Matthew, Chapter 6, Verses 1:4
According to Jesus, Paul Ryan is a hypocrite who will get no reward from his Father in Heaven.
All of the charitable organizations that help the poor (or even ordinary folks) need to get the memo: you might be ‘ACORN’ed by right-wing operatives, at any time!
They should have been on alert for an infiltration operation, and tasered them down immediately.
Now this is a funny story. What a bunch of fools.
This is the Romney/Ryan philosophy of how we should care for our poor. Local charities and neighbors provide for the needs of the poor, disabled, etc. But none of their precious tax dollars can go to the needy. I guess they needed some photos to demonstrate it.
This story epitomizes the entire Romney/Ryan campaign. First, you insult and denigrate the poor at every opportunity. Insult their food, their medical care, their standard of living. Be caught telling your cronies that the poor don’t matter and your votes won’t come from them anyway.
Then, when you’ve been exposed in that horrible story, go out in debates and tell whopping lies about how you love the poor and want to help them by not cutting their Medicaid funding. But you slip up and say poor people can get care in any emergency room, and no one dies from lack of insurance. Then you have to find a way to re-spin that story.
But really, this disgusting event with Ryan takes the cake. He shows up with his family AFTER the event, where he would have had to shake hands and actually touch the needy people he loathes, then stands around an empty kitchen, snatches up some clean pots and pans, shoves them into the hands of his wife and kids, then grabs the sprayer like he’s washing something.
This is the story that should be running on TV ads right now. Fake Ryan, fake Romney, real disaster for the country.
Fantasy, just like Ayn.
Thank you Netflix.
it being a fraud just about sums up the GOP.
No doubt that he completed the rewashing in record time. Or so he will claim.
He washed it so fast, it was clean before he even started!
Yes, indeed, “scrub” those (clean) soup kitchen pots, Ryan boy, deceive the rubes and fools, sell that swampland. A perfect example of today’s “conservative” male in action. He even gets the wife and kids into the fake photo op as props! The pious soup kitchen family cleans up….all a fraud.
Who the hell would do this? Absolute moral bankruptcy.
As Rmoney and Ryan boy continue to build toward their eking out of 270 EV and 50.1%, no one really can say they didn’t know what brazen liars and frauds these two psychopaths are. This latest “conservative” con game was clearly presented to the American Boob, all one needed was a functioning brain to perceive it.
As ppl pointed out in some threads on TPM and Kos, he’s wearing his watch and no gloves!! that water should be hot to wash dishes that really need washing. Also, how about the laundry bill for the white aprons?
I worked food service in the dining hall while I lived at the dorms in college, and water in a kitchen like this is so hot that it will scald you in a second.
I’d like to say that anyone who has done work in a big kitchen would notice “no gloves” and a perfectly clean apron in a heartbeat. I’m sad to say that I did not catch that, but for me it’s been decades.
I too worked dish crew for a while in school, and for me also it’s been years. Didn’t notice the gloves and apron myself but when it was pointed out … and I’m asking, “where’s the steam?”
Why no hair nets? Why is he wearing a tie? I’ll bet he’s also wearing leather-sole dress shoes too. Big mistake in a kitchen, especially while “washing” those pots and pans…
Also his watch was pointed out by ppl on TPM and Kos
2 random thoughts:
This is the party that turned the concept of “community organizing” into a one-liner.
IOKIYAR. God help us if even a Democratic candidate for the House had tried this.
Actually I think Ayn Rand’s first principle was to speak the truth without compromise. Granted, her ideas of truth were pretty out there, but she had zero tolerance for intellectual dishonesty. I suspect she would have publicly disowned Ryan, and by extension Romney, for even suggesting that he adhered to her principles.
Yes, I confess. I went through a phase in my teens. Didn’t we all?
So color me late to the party, but for the debate tonight, I found this Kos diary on “Gish Gallop” the best discussion on the liar’s debate technique. The Gish Gallop better be talked up tonight before the debate.
The tell in all the videos and photos is that first, he holds the pans and pots so you can’t see the inside where the food residue would be. Second, their are no makrs on the sides or bottom which there would be if they hadn’t been cleaned yet.
But this is a perfect symbol of the Romney/Ryan campaign. All show, no substance.
see comments above – crisp white aprons, no gloves, no steam, no hot water
There is now a video of this traveshamockery.
This was so painful to watch that I could only make it halfway through the video. Romney and Ryan have no shame – they are an embarrassment to the human race.
That is making the assumption that they are members of the human race. Presuming facts not in evidence.
the kids don’t know how to put on an apron!
This is infuriating.
I’m president of the board of a homeless shelter and kitchen in Seattle. I can only imagine what would happen on a Saturday morning – the quietest time of the week – if one of our 20-something volunteers were suddenly confronted at the door with a horde of Secret Service personnel, media, campaign staff, and the entire family of a national political candidate.
Nobody without authorization should even be let in the door – and beyond that, nobody goes into the kitchen and does any work without a food handler’s permit and a volunteer orientation. Nobody (volunteers or guests) gets their picture taken without express permission. And for damn sure no political candidate gets to use the premises for a photo op. But if you’re 23 and are on the tail end of a 12-hour overnight shift, what are you going to do?
Ryan’s stunt probably dropped this kitchen in a ton of hot water. By his having his photo taken there, they will have alienated some donors. By their publicly objecting to it, they will have alienated other donors. Ryan did enormous damage to their work with the poor by taking a few minutes from his busy schedule to pretend that he cared and wanted to help.
But then, that’s the GOP in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Two comments:
1-If this is true…and I have no doubt that it is…then it should be used and used and used again by the DemRats in the remainder of this campaign. But it will not be used. Not really.
Wy?
My second comment:
In several parts.
Remember, Bunkies? When John-Boy assembled a group of black kids in New Orleans, donned his best “work” clothes (as if he had done a lick of work since he got his law degree…complete w/beeper for those hottest-thing-ever chores he was
notgoing to have to do) and emoted about what a great preznit he would have made. He got caught out eventually, of course…they all do…but it sure took long enough.I mean…it was right there in plain sight.
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Pot call the kettle black?
Only at risk of being made to appear rather…narcissistic…in return.
Please.
WTFU.
i am embarrassed for y’all.
AG
This is a media scandal.
It’s a little disgusting Ryan and his staff would barge into a soup kitchen without adequate permission and use the place as a photo op. But really, how did every journalist there decide to report this at face value? They all basically lied about what their pictures showed.
I think the Dems should get in on this too:
There’s a lot of unused potential for good stories here!
The media are owned by the GOP.