Daily Show Moment of Zen – Mitt Romney on Music (12/7/2011)
One of my favorite parts of The Daily Show on Comedy Central is its Moment of Zen segment, where a short clip from that day’s news coverage (almost always from one of the three US cable news networks) closes the show unaccompanied by commentary. They’re generally moments of awkwardness, often targeted towards the most dedicated news-junkie. Though recent news coverage has provided for some great “moment of zen” moments, last night ended with a clip of Mitt Romney from back in 1994. And it’s one of the funniest I’ve seen in a while.
Those seven seconds of Mitt Romney’s life sum up his entire political career splendidly. I mean, have you ever heard a more prototypical ‘politician’ response to such a basic question? What a phlegmatic dude.
Being an observer of Romney for a while, I’m sure that what he meant by, “Well, I like music of almost any kind including this,” was, ”What is this ‘muzaak’ you speak of?”
Either that or, ”Mormons are only allowed to listen to polka.”
Feel free to give your own speculations of what Romney’s honest answer would’ve been.
Being a man of fairness, here’s the video in its full context.
4 Responses to “Daily Show Moment of Zen – Mitt Romney on Music (12/7/2011)”
Ha ha I like the reporter for saying “Well, eh, you’ll definitely be one of my top choices, eh eh”
Haha, he’s so awkward. He was probably considered really cool and popular within the context of the mid ’90′s though. That would explain his charisma lol
That Jason Biggs looking kid really stole the show in the full clip. Whenever Romney is asked a humanizing question, it always sounds like his answer was filtered through Google Translate.
Haha, I thought he looked familiar. Jason Biggs is definitely way cooler though lol
And I’m pretty sure Google was modeled after Romney’s brain. :P