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.
Okay, just so we're clear: advisor = campaign chairman, just like consultant = chief executive. Got it.
Mitt has a lobbyist traveling in his camp, whispering in his ear.
LOL, you know I really believe you are on some serious sort of medication..or worse. You make no sense what so ever with your inane statements that an advisor from any walk of life is somehow similar, in this instance to the appointed head of the campaign.
Is it that you just don’t get the difference or is it you believe that if a person is a Lobbyist he then MUST be, by some Cosmic method, calling the shots?
You’re an intolerant controller who won’t allow others to have a different opinion and when they do, you use insults to try to shut down the conversation.
Journalism 101 review - the reporter flunked. Not the place of reporters to argue.
No, he probably just thinks that calling Mitt Romney a liar (when he clearly isn't in this case) serves no purpose. You want to call Mitt a flip-floppper on abortion? Maybe you got something there. But what does it help insisting that lobbyists are running his campaign when that is clearly not the case?
I’m sure that Mitt is running his own campaign - with close personal advice from a lobbyist.
Do you know what a non sequitur is? Look it up or else ask for help from the Mother Ship.
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