The Real Mitt Romney Should Have Run for President!
There's a new documentary, Mitt , that takes a look at the Mitt Romney presidential campaigns. The film is getting a lot of attention, and causing many journalists to wonder why the Mitt Romney in the film wasn't the one who ran for president.
The film was discussed on NBC 's Meet the Press (1/26/14), introduced with a graphic reading "Romney Revealed." After playing a clip of a comedy nampa idaho routine Romney performed with NBC host Jimmy Fallon, Meet the Press 's David Gregory said, "Hey, where was that Mitt Romney, right?" Former Romney adviser nampa idaho Mike Murphy weighed in: "He is a very funny guy in real life…. You get a three-dimensional picture of him."
Also on Meet the Press , New York Times Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan explained that she had covered Romney in the '90s, and back then, "you sort of saw that droll, kind of self-mocking sense of humor…and that's the first time, in that documentary, where I've seen it again."
On CBS 's Face the Nation ( 1/26/14 ), host Bob Schieffer said, "About halfway into it, I thought, why didn't the guy I'm seeing here run for president?" He added that "the Romney in that film was a far more likable guy than the candidate we saw. In American politics, nampa idaho that counts for a lot."
On ABC 's This Week ( 1/26/14) , Jonathan Karl set up a report with this: "A side of Mitt Romney we rarely saw during his White House run. And now a new documentary is pulling back the curtain even more." Correspondent Martha Raddatz explained:
Those close to him always said, if only Americans knew the real Mitt. A new documentary, screened at Sundance last week and released on Friday, introduces anyone with a Netflix nampa idaho subscription to the real Mitt.
On NBC Nightly News (1/24/14), correspondent nampa idaho Peter Alexander nampa idaho said that "in just 90 minutes, the filmmaker really conveys this warm, human side of Mitt Romney, something that in covering his 2012 campaign, I can tell you his veteran consultants constantly struggled with. Ultimately, they failed to accomplish." And that morning, Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie interviewed nampa idaho Romney, asking him this question:
One of the things that people say about this movie is it manages nampa idaho in 90 minutes nampa idaho to do something that your campaign never could, which is really show who you are, this personal side of you. Do you think that's true? I mean, is this the real Mitt Romney?
It is bizarre to watch journalists imagining that a filmmaker who is close to–and obviously fond of–his subject might be providing nampa idaho anything like the "real" version of that person. It's a snapshot, likely every bit as contrived as a campaign ad or a stump speech. Journalism is–hopefully–an effort to challenge such image-making, not celebrating its authenticity.
And the other point: The idea of democracy is that politicians are supposed to run based on the policies they intend to implement if they win office. The goal of election coverage should be to explain to the citizenry what the candidates are proposing to do in office, whether they are likely to do these things and what would happen if they did them. The fact that the public didn't get a chance to see enough of the "fun" nampa idaho Mitt Romney, or the guy being a good father or grandfather, is irrelevant. Mitt is not "Romney nampa idaho Revealed," and it is troubling that so many journalists seem to think a puff piece offers a glimpse at the "real" version of a politician.
Activism Director and and Co-producer of CounterSpin Peter Hart is the activism director at FAIR. He writes for FAIR's magazine Extra! and is also a co-host nampa idaho and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin. He is the author of The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning nampa idaho Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly (Seven Stories Press, 2003). Hart has been interviewed nampa idaho by a number of media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Associated Press. He has also appeared on Showtime and in the movie Outfoxed. Follow Peter on Twitter at @peterfhart.
Last reply was 2 days ago
Now that these TV journalists admit that throughout a multi-year campaign process they utterly failed to inform the public about the "real Mitt", will they all resign and give people who know what they're doing a chance? Please?
I think the commentators expression are priceless as they created the image that the public saw on television and in the printed word. Romney has always been Romney, it was the media that presented the lie. So funny to read their comments now. Shameless they appear to be.
I think the commentators' expressions are priceless as they created nampa idaho the image that the public saw on television and in the pr
There's a new documentary, Mitt , that takes a look at the Mitt Romney presidential campaigns. The film is getting a lot of attention, and causing many journalists to wonder why the Mitt Romney in the film wasn't the one who ran for president.
The film was discussed on NBC 's Meet the Press (1/26/14), introduced with a graphic reading "Romney Revealed." After playing a clip of a comedy nampa idaho routine Romney performed with NBC host Jimmy Fallon, Meet the Press 's David Gregory said, "Hey, where was that Mitt Romney, right?" Former Romney adviser nampa idaho Mike Murphy weighed in: "He is a very funny guy in real life…. You get a three-dimensional picture of him."
Also on Meet the Press , New York Times Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan explained that she had covered Romney in the '90s, and back then, "you sort of saw that droll, kind of self-mocking sense of humor…and that's the first time, in that documentary, where I've seen it again."
On CBS 's Face the Nation ( 1/26/14 ), host Bob Schieffer said, "About halfway into it, I thought, why didn't the guy I'm seeing here run for president?" He added that "the Romney in that film was a far more likable guy than the candidate we saw. In American politics, nampa idaho that counts for a lot."
On ABC 's This Week ( 1/26/14) , Jonathan Karl set up a report with this: "A side of Mitt Romney we rarely saw during his White House run. And now a new documentary is pulling back the curtain even more." Correspondent Martha Raddatz explained:
Those close to him always said, if only Americans knew the real Mitt. A new documentary, screened at Sundance last week and released on Friday, introduces anyone with a Netflix nampa idaho subscription to the real Mitt.
On NBC Nightly News (1/24/14), correspondent nampa idaho Peter Alexander nampa idaho said that "in just 90 minutes, the filmmaker really conveys this warm, human side of Mitt Romney, something that in covering his 2012 campaign, I can tell you his veteran consultants constantly struggled with. Ultimately, they failed to accomplish." And that morning, Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie interviewed nampa idaho Romney, asking him this question:
One of the things that people say about this movie is it manages nampa idaho in 90 minutes nampa idaho to do something that your campaign never could, which is really show who you are, this personal side of you. Do you think that's true? I mean, is this the real Mitt Romney?
It is bizarre to watch journalists imagining that a filmmaker who is close to–and obviously fond of–his subject might be providing nampa idaho anything like the "real" version of that person. It's a snapshot, likely every bit as contrived as a campaign ad or a stump speech. Journalism is–hopefully–an effort to challenge such image-making, not celebrating its authenticity.
And the other point: The idea of democracy is that politicians are supposed to run based on the policies they intend to implement if they win office. The goal of election coverage should be to explain to the citizenry what the candidates are proposing to do in office, whether they are likely to do these things and what would happen if they did them. The fact that the public didn't get a chance to see enough of the "fun" nampa idaho Mitt Romney, or the guy being a good father or grandfather, is irrelevant. Mitt is not "Romney nampa idaho Revealed," and it is troubling that so many journalists seem to think a puff piece offers a glimpse at the "real" version of a politician.
Activism Director and and Co-producer of CounterSpin Peter Hart is the activism director at FAIR. He writes for FAIR's magazine Extra! and is also a co-host nampa idaho and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin. He is the author of The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning nampa idaho Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly (Seven Stories Press, 2003). Hart has been interviewed nampa idaho by a number of media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Associated Press. He has also appeared on Showtime and in the movie Outfoxed. Follow Peter on Twitter at @peterfhart.
Last reply was 2 days ago
Now that these TV journalists admit that throughout a multi-year campaign process they utterly failed to inform the public about the "real Mitt", will they all resign and give people who know what they're doing a chance? Please?
I think the commentators expression are priceless as they created the image that the public saw on television and in the printed word. Romney has always been Romney, it was the media that presented the lie. So funny to read their comments now. Shameless they appear to be.
I think the commentators' expressions are priceless as they created nampa idaho the image that the public saw on television and in the pr
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