Only through the Romney-can't-possibly-beat-our-boy-king propaganda filter of the "news" media.
During the GOP convention, Mark Halperin of TIME and John Heilemann of New York magazine predicted confidently -- promised would be a better word -- that Clint Eastwood's endorsement speech, which they had just watched, would not reach the public, that Romney's message and the GOP's reframing of his issues and attempts to cast his qualities in perspective would not reach the public without being sliced, diced, jumbled, and spun, so that the message could not get out.
They promised (no doubt peeved at Clint's performance, which Halperin derogated twice within 30 minutes on two different PBS shows) that the Romney message would not get out.
I believed them.