Not modest, but good he helped I would think.
Oh for godsake. The guy did a great deed. No one was seriously injured, he had a pic taken by the wreck. As ever, the Lib media goes nuts.
Oh, good grief, he took his pic by the car not a dead body.
Criticized by whom for what?
If I was where a car crashed into a Home and ended up in the Kitchen landing on its side, I would have taken a picture and sent it out. Doesn’t happen everyday in my life.
So, he helps people and he’s the bad guy?
If the car wasn’t on fire, was it really safer to extricate them, unless they had no injury at all, than to let the first responders do it?
Given the notoriety of his family, he should have known better, it comes across as self-promoting. Plenty of other people his age would have done exactly the same, though, assuming they were brave enough and caring enough to even bother themselves with stopping to assist. So, I’d give him a break, he knows better now. Live and learn.
Well it’s not like he claimed to be the subject of a novel and movie, or to have invented the internet. Damn those Christians doing good deeds, we all know it’s only for attention.
People on both sides are giving him such a hard time about this. If I saved or helped save a couple of folks, then heck yeah, I would want some sort of momento of the occasion. To ask the victim’s family to pose with him might be a bit much, but standing next to the twisted wreck hurts no one. We can all say, you should not show pride of self, but most don’t follow that rule in every instance. One of Jon Huntsman’s glamorous daughters wants Josh Romney to run for office and challenge a Tea Party candidate next year. Both families Romney and Huntsman are related as cousins. Maybe Josh is using this to start the publicity campaign. I thought it was Mitt in the photo at first. They are like clones.
And now Ann Romney, who was supposed to hate campaigning, is out hocking an odd sort of time-warp cookbook.
Mother Jones does the research on it:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/ann-romney-family-cookbook-review-recipes
Didn't Cuomo get his picture taken many times today, at the site of a train wreck, to be plastered all over the Internet & shown on national TV? And did NOTHING useful; just got in the way of the real workers?
Oh, that's right; it is supposed to show that "he cares", and is "taking charge".
* Mexico, of course.
Years ago, my cousin apparently fell asleep driving home after visiting his mother. His car ran off the road and hit a culvert. He was knocked unconcious and the car eventually caught fire and he died. When they investigated the fire, they found that he had been robbed of his wallet and phone along with some other items that he had put in his car at his mothers house. They never found the thief (obviously not anyone reared by Mitt Romney) but they concluded that the thief was a passerby who stopped and took advantage of my cousins situation and then left him sitting in the vehicle.
He saved more people in one car accident than Stompfoot saved in Benghazi.
Good to see a Romney FINALLY doing something good instead
of imposing statism, nannystate, or attacking conservatives.
Not much of a story one way or the other. But I do find it interesting in how it reflects a certain generational/cultural change. That is, what Romney did seems undoubtedly innocuous to folks his age. To me, taking a photo of myself at such a scene would never even remotely occur to me. Such a thought would strike me as rather weird. Going further, no way on earth would my parents and their generational peers think to do something like this, as they’d assuredly view it as a rather tacky and self-absorbed thing to do.
Like I said, interesting as a reflection of how the culture has changed.
Re “Romney’s son criticized for tweet after crash”
It is worthy of note that the title is deceptive by omission; since, the last line of this short article says, “The Tribune reports that reactions on Twitter to Romney’s tweet ranged from praise to criticism for posing for a photograph at an accident scene.”
Obviously, the editors rigged the title and the article to accentuate only the negative about Josh Romney, knowing many people will remember the title without even bothering to read the article to the end; OR, click the embedded link to see the actual Tweet.
The author also engaged in apparent deliberate deceptive journalism by not reporting Josh’s complete Tweet; which, was: “Was first on scene to big accident, see pic of car in the house. I lifted 4 people out to safety. All . Thankful.”
In other words, he was not bragging so much as expressing thanks that everyone was OK. The details were honest and explained what he was thankful for.
This is just one more example of how the media gets you to think what THEY want you to think...
It’s a mormonic thing to do a good deed and then send out a press release to get the approval of men. He has his reward.
Whether you'd tweet it or I'd tweet it -- and whether or not we'd have had the presence of mind to cope with the situation -- sending out the message is something private citizens certainly have the right to do.