I don’t know if you remember, but back in 2000 after Bush got the nomination and gave a wonderful acceptance speech, thee was suddenly a news black-out on him. Certain dubious characters on FR started calling him a lazy campaigner.
A couple of other Freepers and I started doing the “Bush Cheney 2000 Victory Tour” threads with reports by Freepers who were AT Bush appearances, complete with photos, just to prove that Bush was, indeed, campaigning.
The media has nothing to hit Romney with, except old stuff like the recycled Bain. He’s good-looking and a much better speaker than Obama. He’s resenting ideas which resonate with a lot of the voters.
So, the logical step by the media is to simply refuse to air his appearances.
Did you know he and Ann did a sit-down interview with Oprah this week? I assume it is for her magazine.
This week, for some reason, it seems to me that Romney has had some outstanding folks out speaking for him ...Sununu & Bob McDonnell in particular .... both have been ‘gloves off’. The other folks he’s had out there (Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, etc.) have been excellent - all are articulate & can explain things very well without getting bogged down in the weeds and they’ve been handing the media their heads on a platter during interviews. All the complaints about ‘no VP yet’ & how a VP would ‘spread the bandwidth’ .... well, no one VP (especially someone relatively ‘vanilla’ like Portman, even Pawlenty) can do as much as all these other articulate, intelligent, spokespeople for Romney. There needs to be an even more concerted effort to utilize and “mobilize” these folks and get them out there, IMHO.
Good reminder about the news blackout.
Another case in point, Romney’s NAACP speech gets reported as a audience boo rather than the standing ovation at the end.
You are so right about the press blackout.
The media is our enemy. Fortunately, all people have to do is look around their owns lives and see how miserable things have gotten economically.
I don’t think the attacks are working as they had hoped.
Mitt and Ann did a sit down interview with Oprah?
That should be interesting. Oprah is a liberal but a good interviewer and always pleasant to her guests.
Guess I’ll glance at her magazine in the beauty shop and see if I can read the article.