America, Finally Seeing The Real Mitt Romney

The media is trying to figure out how this happened.

How could Mitt Romney be blasting his way to the top of the polls after just one debate?

Would you like a very simple answer? Here it is: The media tried to tell America that Romney was one thing, while the debate showed them he was another. The difference between the two are seen in the poll numbers. It really is that simple.

For the last year or so the media created a template that reflected their opinion, not reality. Mitt Romney was a gaffe machine who didn't care about people and wasn't intelligent enough to reside within the blinding light of their Dear Leader.

The media has spent this time being dishonest to Americans about Mitt Romney.

I know Mitt Romney and have spent plenty of one-on-one time with him. As a sports reporter I covered the 2002 Olympics and saw first hand his ability to fix things. I had many friends who worked with him and they all came back with the same story. They were amazed at his ability to lead and succeed.

During my times with Romney I have seen him as very personable, approachable, and caring. Yes, caring. Everything the media has told us he is not.

I arrived late to a meeting a couple years ago with a handful of people in the room (yes, I arrived late for a meeting with Romney,) not to worry, with no chairs in the room, Romney quickly stood up and offered me his. A little thing---a personal thing---but it told me a lot about the man.

Yes, Obama was horrible during the Disaster in Denver. He acted like he would've rather been hitting a buried ball out of the sand at the 9th hole at Congressional Country Club (hey Barry, nice recovery!) than actually having to answer Romney's questions about the economy (hey Barry, nice recovery!) But that's just part of the issue here, the bigger issue is that the media told us Romney was something that he is not. The polls reflect the disconnect between what the media told us, and what the people have seen.

A 12 point swing in the Pew Poll doesn't happen by accident, it only happens when the media lie to the American people about what a candidate is and they figure out the truth on their own. The debate was Romney unfiltered. Nothing about his performance surprised me, but that night, America finally saw Romney for who he is.

There is still time for the media to turn this election around. Over the next four weeks they will try every trick in the book. The media have too much invested to back up now. Like the cheap, transparent, Vegas magician, you can see the cards up their sleeve and they will pull them out and play them at every turn. It is what it is, except more people are now on to their sleight of hand.

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ABC Politicizes Gas Prices

The Activist Old Media is making it very clear who they want to win the White House in 2012. It's the same guy they were rooting for in 2008.

Lowering gas prices is one of the weapons they will use to try to convince you that Barack Obama is fixing this economy, that in reality, is still spinning very much out of control and in the wrong direction. Reality be damned, they have an election to win for the Democrat this fall (I thought their promos said they would protect us, not the powerful politicians.)

On ABC's Good Morning America Monday, the anchors were talking about falling gas prices and reporter Paula Faris said something so blatantly biased, that I almost couldn't believe ABC would make it this obvious who they are rooting for. She said, "The best news, it (the gas price) might drop another 50 cents by Halloween, just before the election."

Why bring the election into this? I don't fill up my tank wondering what the price will be in the fall. I look at the price on the pump now. It's almost like they have something mapped out here, sort of like a template that they are putting together between now and November to tell the story they want. Is that how you do news?

She also called it the "best news" that the price would go down by Halloween.The best news to me would be that it were still the same price as when Obama took office, or at least match inflation. Yes, we know that would be great news for you in the ABC news room if prices fall before the election because you can report (falsely) how Obama has brought prices down and celebrate a November 6th win that you helped create. The Activist Old Media does not talk "truth to power," they try to create that power when libs are running the show. 

Let's put the gas prices in context ABC. If you are going to make gas prices political and put them in the context of the fall election, do you know what the gas prices were when Obama took office? $1.85 a gallon. That means they have nearly doubled in less than three years. Even if they actually do drop 50 cents a gallon in the fall, we would still be paying a dollar per gallon more than when your Dear Leader took office. Report that.

Good Morning America did do some comparison of gas price numbers, they compared the national average now compared to April and to last year. Yes, gas prices are down since then, but remember, they brought the politics of the election into this issue but failed to mention the price of gas when Obama took office. 

ABC, you know the numbers, if you are going to report on "falling gas prices" and use politics as your context, let's use all the numbers, even the ones that will hurt your Beloved One. 

The Pranks of The Activist Old Media

At first, I thought the story was a prank.


A joke that somebody pulled on the media and a prankster was going to jump out of a box in the newsroom at the Washington Post and yell, "Gotcha!"


Maybe John Quinones of ABC would pop out from behind a wall and say this was just a joke and they wanted to see how the media would react to a bogus non-story from 50 years ago about a Republican candidate.


Sadly, it's no joke, the media is actually serious about this "bullying" story.


It's the media who are really the mindless bullies in this scenario, foolishly attacking the Republican candidate for President because he dares to challenge their Dear Leader for the top spot in the White House.


Where are the adults in the media? They want to be taken seriously, but now they are the ones pulling the high-stakes, dangerous "pranks" to protect Barack Obama.


I agree that calling this story, and others like it (see: "Dog" stories) a "prank" understates the value the media believes that it has, but they are going at it full speed, 100%, as if this is the biggest story of the day to the electorate. Forget the fact that they made most of it up and have numerous facts just totally wrong, this story fits the template that they want to put on the Evil, Rich, White, Mormon, Hates Animals, Bully, Republican Candidate for President.


The media has virtually ignored Obama's pot smoking, cocaine filled, anti-white, anger filled high school days---where he also admits to shoving and bullying a girl name Coretta because he was mad at her---and they go after Romney for one incident mis-reported, overblown, and mischaracterized. Where are those in the media working to find Coretta and see how she's doing? WaPo? Whaddya think? Maybe a story there?


Of course, there is no story in either case.


We all see what's going here. The media is acting like children. Perhaps they are still going through the Terrible Twos and should be made to go to Time Out. The race for President of The United States of America has now devolved into an argument about what one of the candidates (not the other candidate, just one of the candidates) did during high school? Did I wake up on Sesame Street this morning?


A "troubling account" and "troubling scene" is what ABC called this silly story. Naw---I'll tell you where the real trouble is right now, and its in your New York newsrooms.


Analyst Matthew Dowd on ABC thinks this story is even bigger, he said, "I don't think this puts an end to the story. It touches on something that touches every one of us, which is our high school experiences." He said Romney needs to say something "bigger and bolder" on this. Matthew should've added 'na, na, na, na, na, na!" after his quote. It would've made him sound smarter.


"Now it's part of the national conversation," continued Dowd. "It entered the national conversation when we were already talking about bullying in high school." Gotcha, so that's how this works. When the media wants to talk about contraceptives, or gay marriage, or what you call "bullying," then the Republican candidates are forced to talk about it because it's part of the "national conversation," that you create. Gotcha. For the next 6 months the media will make, as part of the "national conversation," anything they feel will be beneficial to Obama. When will the activist old media start talking about the destruction of America and it's Constitution? I guess we have to wait until you think it's time to have that adult discussion. Until then it's "criss cross, apple sauce, nobody takes my seat."


 I'm guessing Matt was serious. He wants us all to go back to times when we were bullied in high school (as we all apparently were,) pretend it was Mitt Romney pulling the prank and hate him for it, and refuse to vote for him because of it. Yep, that's exactly what we should think of when we are deciding who the next leader of the Free World is. Romney is Brutus Ratman, the senior who put olives in my milk while I was a freshman (BTW, not his real name. I don't want the WaPo to seek us out in case either of us ever decide to run for office.)


The family of the boy (John) who allegedly has his hair cut (that part is even contested) says he was not gay and they are angry that he is being used to further a political agenda. John died in 2004, so the media can't check with the person they have made the chief victim of Evil, Rich, White, Mormon, Hates Animals, and Maybe Bullies Maybe Gay Guys, while in high school, Romney.


Seriously, when they first considered this story in the newsroom in the Washington Post where was the one sane person there to tell them how nuts this idea was? Not there. This is the "Woodward and Bernstein Newsroom" coming up with this garbage.


Barack Obama has quadrupled the American deficits, is taking the debt to new heights, destroying the economy, or at least, doesn't know how to fix it, and we're supposed to be worried about what Mitt Romney might have done in high school? Was this whole thing a prank by the media who are trying to bully the public into thinking what they think is important to them is important to us? Just give us a noogie next time, WaPo.