Heckling Romney Abroad

Townhall.com ^ | August 1, 2012 | Brent Bozell

[Kaslin]

Mitt Romney might have thought it was eminently sensible in an NBC interview in London to repeat exactly what the TV networks had already reported on security at the London Olympics, namely, that there was room for concern.

Romney succeeded only in demonstrating how unbelievably shameless and partisan our "objective" media can be. The networks and national newspapers aggressively declared Romney had committed a diplomatic fiasco overseas and repeated London tabloid headlines heckling Romney with insults, such as "Mitt the Twit."

Here's what the networks said pre-Romney. On the July 24 "Good Morning America," ABC reporter Nick Schifrin lamented "an absolute fiasco with the private guards who were supposed to be doing this. Police tell ABC News they're worried those private security guards are not adequately trained." That same night, CBS featured an unidentified British man complaining the transportation system was "going to be a bit of a fiasco. And people are going to get stranded."

On the July 17 "NBC Nightly News," Brian Williams warned, "Ten days to go now until the Olympic games get underway in London, and today, the man whose company was hired to provide security at all the Olympic venues admitted his company screwed up." A member of Parliament told NBC it was a "humiliating shambles for the company."

But the same Brian Williams sat down with Romney on July 25 and asked, "And in the short time you've been here in London, do they look ready to your experienced eye?" Romney calmly replied it was hard to know: "There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging." In other words, almost exactly what Williams reported the week before. He then went on to praise the "great volunteers here." But nobody heard that part of the sound bite.

The irony here? Everything Williams asked after this Olympics question were typical hardballs: Did he flip-flop on "assault weapons;" why won't he release more of his tax returns; even, why he was a "hidden man" about his Mormon religion. For the Romney-hating press, even the softball questions can be turned around and accelerated to bean the Republican.

Philip Rucker of The Washington Post announced on behalf of all journalists that Romney would never measure up to the grandeur that was the Barack Obama European Rock Star Tour of 2008: "For any candidate on a foreign trip, the margin for error is small, with every misstep magnified, fairly or not -- especially so for Romney, whose visit is drawing inevitable comparisons to Barack Obama's largely successful foreign tour as a candidate in 2008."

Obama appeared in Berlin to a throng of an estimated 200,000 Germans four years ago. Back then, NBC's Brian Williams offered shock and awe: "Here in Berlin today, not far from where the wall once stood, the man from Chicago, Illinois, the first ever African-American running as presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, brought throngs of people into the center of Berlin, streaming into this city, surging to get close to him, to hear his message."

Williams also surged just to get close to him and asked Obama just how much he would inspire Berliners: "When an American politician comes to Berlin, we've had some iconic utterances in the past. We've had 'Ich bin Ein.' We've had, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.' ... Is the phraseology that you would like remembered: 'People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time'?" Really. That line was forgotten within a day.

He arrived home to NBC's Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press" asking what Michelle Obama would think: "When you get home and Michelle says to you, 'Barack, what did you learn that surprised you? And did you change your mind about anything based on this entire trip?'" Obama's loved ones are offered the first chance for spin control.

On CBS, morning host Chris Wragge was almost trash-talking to GOP strategist Kevin Madden: "Got to admit, 200,000 in Berlin compared to (McCain) speaking at a German restaurant, and you got to give the advantage to Obama right there. So what does Senator McCain then do to overcome this public perception that this was just beyond successful for this last week for Obama?"

Obama was presented by the media as "beyond successful" on a daily basis in 2008, and it's ridiculous for the Ruckers in the media to expect Romney to receive anything like the adulation they dumped on Hope and Change Man the last time around. Obama-loving journalists don't grade Romney on a curve. They flagrantly fail him before he can barely finish a sentence.

[Tennessee Nana]

the nuts who pathologically hate Sarah Palin
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Them ???

Oh kid...

We call them Willard and his RomneyBots...

[Kaslin]

Wow it takes you 25 paragraphs for your message. It only takes me these two animations about how I feel about your anti Romney rant

Also learn to spell. It's don't or do not. Not dont. There is ne e in stupid

Stop lying I have never said anything nasty to you, and you know it. I don't even reply to your posts

It's learned not learned for your information

From who is he supposed to steal the nomination? He has the the deligates that he is required to have. If anyone is planning to steal the nomination from him it's the one you support.

BTW you have just given yourself away at to whom your loyalty really goes with this: Obama hasnt began to expose the truths about him yet..

He wont survive the words and the treasure chest of campaign against him from the liberals Obama and the DNC...

..Dont think for one minute that the DNC doesnt have the goods on your boy “Mitt the Twit”

*Big Smile*

[Tennessee Nana]

Also learn to spell...There is ne e in stupid
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Gosh, Sweetie, there’s no “e” in “no” either..

But DON’T let that stop you bashing me, a Conservative Pro-lifer ...

You keep on pushing your anti-Conservative Mitt the Twit and try to be happy, eh ???

Oh and your boy Wee Willie might want to Repeal and Peplace them there “deligates” for something else...

(WICKED GRIN)

(NANA RETIRES HER RED PENCIL)

Oh and, get some sleep Sweetie...

You look like Heck...

[Tennessee Nana]

It’s learned not learned for your information
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And lil darlin’ it’s Liberal V Liberal not Liberal V Conservative for your information ...

Did I get that one right ???

That was what you were a’tryin’ to convey werent it ???

Or should I have just used my usual “learnt” ???

Gosh youre the English professor...

:)

[Tennessee Nana]

If anyone is planning to steal the nomination from him it’s the one you support.
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Oh, I dont think God needs to steal anything...

and why would he want to be a paltry president ???

The LORD Jesus Christ is already King of kings...

There is no higher position to be had...

Your boy Wee Willie Mitty Twitty is under His feet regardless of how high he claws his way up..

[MHGinTN]

Bwahahahahahaha ... love the red pencil metaphor.

[Tennessee Nana]

I don’t even reply to your posts
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And yet, here you are....

[mikeus_maximus]

Can you please tell me how this article leads to that conclusion? I don’t see it. I see Romney stating the obvious and the lamestream media beating him up for it, but I don’t see them “leading” anything at all.

*sigh* This should be obvious: He parrots what the media tells him about UK security because he thinks it makes him look "plugged in." He blows with the winds of public opinion as fed to him by the US media. When it starts to press him on hard issues like gay marriage and other postions he held before he began posturing himself as the GOP candidate for POTUS, he will recede. Wait for it.

[Nervous Tick]

Nevermind that he actually *ran* an Olympics, eh?

He’s “plugged in” in FACT. Not just appearance.

Your RDS is clouding your common sense, FRiend.