Posted on 01/18/2008 9:56:36 AM PST by restornu
Watch the video at CBS of an AP journalist getting angry about something Mitt Romney said, and Romney getting angry in response.
That Press Secretary was quite right: journalist (and I use this word loosely) Glen Johnson behaved incredibly unprofessionally, he even carried on his little fight after the press conference. Obviously Romney should’ve expressed himself a bit more clearly, but this journalist… what a dupe.
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1 supernovia
January 18, 2008 @ 1:04 am CET Seriously. Once the guy brought up his concern… in a very unprofessional way "That’s not true!" vs, "Isn’t this person tied to your campaign" … Mitt answered clearly. He didn’t even work around the question like every other politician out there. But the guy continued to rail on him. And of course there are all sorts of blogs out there now saying Mitt was testy with the guy. Show me a candidate who would have reacted better. :-p
Enjoying your fresh perspective..
2 C Stanley
January 18, 2008 @ 1:14 am CET I didn’t think his reaction was out of line either, though I did come away from the exchange wondering whether he was accurately answering the criticism. If he’s going to make statements about how you’re not letting lobbyists run your campaign, then I think that’s a more genuine positive attribute if it’s true not just by parsing words about what you mean by "running your campaign".
So on the substance, I didn’t think his response was very convincing, but on the manner in which he answered I thought he did just fine and maintained a relatively cool demeanor in spite of the reporter’s confrontational tone.
3 Trevor
January 18, 2008 @ 2:39 am CET "he even carried on his little fight after the press conference." Nice try, watch the full video of the second encounter. Mitt approaches the reporter, not the other way around. "Lose their Temper", God forbid a reporter calls someone out on his BS. Notice Mitt is about to say "I don’t have lobbyists tied to my" and then the reporter interrupts. Then Romney gets all "that depends on what your definition of is is." Romney’s Press Secretary tells Glen Johnson repeatedly to keep his opinions to himself. Opinions? This must be a joke.
4 Mr.Smith
January 18, 2008 @ 2:59 am CET It’s about time our press started to bust some balls out there for once. Mitt Romney seems like a decent candidate but being called out on his little blunder of not having any lobbyist in his campaign was priceless.
Glenn Johnson, I salute you. Wish there was more reporters like you out there keeping this schmucks in check.
5 Tap
January 18, 2008 @ 5:06 am CET I was impressed with Romney’s response. He wasn’t parsing words..the reporter was. Romney’s point remains valid..he isn’t beholden to Washington lobbyists, certainly not in the way that a McCain or a Clinton is.
6 daveinboca
January 18, 2008 @ 7:57 am CET The journalist is hardly a "dupe." Over the years and overseas as well as in the USA, AP & Reuters and AFP have joined the Guardian & Independent & US periodicals in becoming infested with self-righteous self-important boobies who believe they have a mission other than to merely report—like paparazzi they are becoming part of the process itself rather than reporting on it.
There has to be collusion and implicit encouragement of this partisan hack Johnson’s garbage & lies, especially as Capt. Ed points out, he has written disparagingly of Romney on numerous occasions, even bringing up his great-grandfather’s polygamy. Also, Johnson has written soft praise and glowing admiration of Hillary’s courageous response to a campaign HQ of hers taken under siege by a demented Democrat.
The mainstream media has become part of the DNC claque and should no longer be accredited if bogus hacks like Johnson are part of the baggage. AP & Reuters & Newsweak are packed with snarks who think what’s fair on the left is foul on the right. [Ditto the NYT, with Linda Greenhouse & other ethically challenged Enron consultant-types coming to mind.] With few exceptions, the mainstream media is now promoting Democrat candidates and disrespecting Republican candidates pretty much across the board—McCain & Huckabee are exceptions for the moment. The press actually likes McCain’s soft centrism & believes Huckabee will be a pushover if nominated.
Like the Kossacks being urged to vote for Romney to disrupt the GOP nominating process in Michigan, the press [including much-maligned Fox which is beginning to reflect liberal biases as it becomes more mainstream] is abandoning all pretense at objective facts such as who, what, when, where, and why. Instead the MSM is promoting process itself—therebye abandoning principle of any kind, and turning the election into a sporting event in which it is not only onlooker and reporter, but also referee.
Leave that to the editorial pages and report facts, not ignorant bigoted reportorial bias.
Technically It’s not Amnesty....
Explain this in the context that adviser and appointed campaign chairperson are, in your view, one and the same. This is in fact what you have said here.
Yeah it does speak for itself, it shows the reporter to be unprofessional and wrong on the facts - a Michael Moore in training.
I had a similar reaction. I love our President (uh, in the brotherly sense of course), :) but the prospect of being able to watch my president handle the press in a way that Bush has been unable to makes Romney look very good here. His remark about “why would I spend my own money to do favors for lobbyists” was particularly beautiful.
As much as I despise dumb lying liberals like Glen whatever, I wish Romney could have handled douches like that more expertly...with humor for example.
Better watch out when jouranlists lose their tempers. They’re ticking timebombs, just waiting to go off:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955356/posts
The guy isn’t a reporter, he’s an advocate at this point.
As such, his credentials should be pulled by the campaign.
Romney was being truthful.
Romney was a lot nicer to that obnoxious fat pig than I would have been. The first thing I would have said to him would have been “Stand up when you talk to me”, and it would have gone downhill from there.
“A veteran reporter from Boston got under Mitt Romney’s skin”
A Kerry Shill from Boston got under Mitt Romney’s skin !
...there, fixed it.
Seeing the media gush over Hillary/Obama and rant about Republicans isn’t even glossed over any more. The worst outrage is their continued pretense of objectivity.
I thought Romney handled this with his usual class. The reporter is a jerk and came across as such.
That AP reporter obviously holds up David Gregory posters with one hand.
Yeah, lobbyists are his close personal advisors that travel with him but have nothing to do with his run.
Typical Mitt. He’s doing it but he doesn’t mean it.
Creepy.
I think he articulates his conservative positions better than anyone-especially Huck-who avoids the question with potty humor and what he thinks are clever quips. Fred answered the question about dropping out and supporting McCain and said that that notion is ridiculous. Huck is a snake oil salesman and it’s plain to see. He gives me the creeps.
Don’t call him a lobbyist, call him a personal friend, LOL.
The job title doesn’t change the fact that Mitt is in a lobbyist’s pocket.
OMG! This guy is a David Gregory wanna be! What a jerk-off excuse for an impartial “just the facts” journalist.
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