Did Mitt Romney assault a prep school classmate?

bigpern23 · Dec 15, 2014

Double Down said:

Knowing a bit about both the Washington Post and its national staff, I'll go ahead and say I find the notion this could have been "coordinated cover" to be hilarious. That Romney story on Cranbrook would have almost certainly have been scheduled to run a week in advance, possibly more, and I'm quite confident the reporter and the direct editor involved with it would have been a little dismayed by the gay marriage announcement the day before, seeing as how it would have threatened to overshadow what probably felt like a decent scoop of standard political biographical journalism.

No one, even within the administration, knew that gay marriage was going to be a major campaign issue this week until Biden stepped in rainbow flags on Meet the Press, and the idea someone like Axelrod or Jarrett would have dialed up Marcus Brauchli and said "How can you help us change the conversation in the next 24 hours?" shows absolutely zero understanding of how a major metro newspaper works. For starters, you're claiming they were saving it "in case it went over like a lead balloon" which implies they would have been able to: 1. Predict the vote in North Carolina was going to go the way it did. 2. Predict the president was going to grant ABC an interview about the issue the day after the vote. 3. Have some kind of back-up plan in case the story needed to be held because the tepid endorsement of gay marriage was a resounding success. In this day and age, you don't just clear 4,000 words holes in the paper for stories on 12 hours notice.

There are also so many people within the building who would love to embarrass Brauchli over some sort of coordinated attack that "revealed" he was in cahoots with the administration, it would have been leaked before it even happened. And perhaps even more people who would have liked to embarrass Katharine Waymouth too. If you can tell me who either of those people are without looking it up, I'll at least listen to your next post with an open mind, but I'm confident you cannot.

If you want to come on here wagging your finger in the name of "real" journalism, it's probably wise to have some sort of real understanding of how a major newspaper schedules and puts together its campaign coverage. The argument that cries "TIMING!" is, as pointed out above by BTExpress, a stoopid one because the target is always on the move. Why run this story now???!!! Right after Romney became the nominee/after the convention/on the eve of the election/on a day when the Redskins aren't playing?

It's all a game of three card monte, meant to distract from the actual story. Which, by the way, probably would have gone away in two days if Romney's people hadn't handled it so oafishly.
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YGBFKM · May 12, 2012

Anyone who disagrees with me fails to understand how the world works.

Double Down · May 12, 2012

Actually, no. Anyone who wants to claim bias in journalism better bring more than weak shit to the table, lest I be roused from my slumber and decide to go Dikembe Mutumbo on their ass.

The political arguments, here and elsewhere, interest me only as an observer for the most part. But start claiming wild media conspiracies and I'd prefer you show you work.

Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L) · May 12, 2012

Who wants to sex the Mutumbo!

Stitch · May 12, 2012

Shark is just pissed he didn't get a job in Roswell.

Double Down · May 12, 2012

Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L) said:

Who wants to sex the Mutumbo!
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Everyone I imagine.

Why, btw, is there not a clever sports blog called WWTSM?

Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L) · May 12, 2012

Double Down said:

Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L) said:

Who wants to sex the Mutumbo!
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Everyone I imagine.

Why, btw, is there not a clever sports blog called WWTSM?
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They had to change the name to A Large Regular for legal reasons. But you can still find the T-Shirts

TigerVols · May 12, 2012

YGBFKM said:

Anyone who disagrees with me fails to understand how the world works.
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No truer words have ever been written.

Dick Whitman · May 12, 2012

Starman said:

The new meme gaining steam with the RWSM is this is all part of a "coordinated strategy" to weaken Willard-Mitt with a "constant drumbeat" of stories painting him as pompous, privileged, pampered, preppy, oblivious, obnoxious, crass, cruel and a silver-spooner completely contemptuous of the "little people."

And it probably is.

Almost like the "constant drumbeat" about someone being a mooslim kenyan neegro terrorist-appeaser radical homo-sympathizer socialist commie pinko gun-grabbing abortionist anti-Christian, etc etc yadda yadda yack yack blah blah, and that drumbeat's been going on for 7-8 years now (at full roar for the last 4).
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Not to mention the constant drumbeat of the same material they spewed at Romney when THEY wanted someone else (Perry/Cain/Santorum/Gingrich) to win the nomination.

Guess it was OK then.

deskslave · May 12, 2012

Dick Whitman said:

Starman said:

The new meme gaining steam with the RWSM is this is all part of a "coordinated strategy" to weaken Willard-Mitt with a "constant drumbeat" of stories painting him as pompous, privileged, pampered, preppy, oblivious, obnoxious, crass, cruel and a silver-spooner completely contemptuous of the "little people."

And it probably is.

Almost like the "constant drumbeat" about someone being a mooslim kenyan neegro terrorist-appeaser radical homo-sympathizer socialist commie pinko gun-grabbing abortionist anti-Christian, etc etc yadda yadda yack yack blah blah, and that drumbeat's been going on for 7-8 years now (at full roar for the last 4).
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Not to mention the constant drumbeat of the same material they spewed at Romney when THEY wanted someone else (Perry/Cain/Santorum/Gingrich) to win the nomination.

Guess it was OK then.
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Obama should skip doing any of his own research and just have every campaign ad be stuff that the other candidates threw at him in the primary.

Greenhorn · May 12, 2012

I am indeed a real journalist, at least before I wasted a lot of money on building my wife an opera house.

See, my name is Charles and when I was younger, I came into a bit of money and started buying some newspapers. My editor, Mr. Bernstein, and I worked very hard on our newspapers, till one day I decided to run for governor.....

Baron Scicluna · May 12, 2012

It's funny hearing Republicans talk about timing of stories, seeing that quite frequently in the W era, the terror alert would miraculously rise to Orange whenever there was news that reflected badly on the administration.

It got so bad, even Tom Ridge complained about it.

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