Just Plane Ignorant

Rachel Maddow notes just how bad Mitt Romney rambles on when he's nervous, and that his filters tend to turn off and he says whatever pops into his head.  The latest example, Romney's comments on his wife Ann's recent airplane incident with smoke filling the cabin forcing the craft to make an emergency landing.

At a fundraising event in Beverly Hills over the weekend, Romney noted that a plane carrying his wife, Ann, was forced to land because of a small fire.

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” the Republican presidential nominee said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go exactly. And you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. But it’s a real problem.”

Well, yeah, OK.  His wife was never in any real danger, but even Mitt the robot cares about her and was glad no one was harmed.  But you don't know why windows don't open in an airplane?  Even given as much time as Mitt Romney has spent in aircraft, he's never asked?  Hoboy.  Rachel was pretty ruthless:

“It’s a real problem that windows don’t roll down on airplanes?” she asked. “Is it also a problem that guns don’t shoot backwards through the barrel? Or that diving boards are only mounted over very deep water? Why don’t the windows roll down?”

“I don’t think he was joking because he couldn’t possibly be joking about his wife almost being in a plane crash,” Maddow added. “You can’t joke about that, especially with her standing right there.”

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