Mitt Romney ‘deliberately got booed by the NAACP to appeal to white racists’

Toby Harnden
dailymail.co.uk
July 12, 2012

The Romney campaign has been accused of deliberately getting the Republican presidential candidate booed by black people during his NAACP speech to attract votes ‘in certain racist precincts’, by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell.

Romney was booed for 15 seconds at the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People conference in Houston on Wednesday when he stated he would ‘eliminate’ unnecessary programmes like the Obamacare health reform.

Democrats united in saying that Romney planned to get booed to appeal to his conservative base. But O’Donnell and his guests went a step further by saying that Romney was making a play for white racists.

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This article was posted: Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 9:28 am

Tags: domestic news

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