carlfense Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 All of Romney's UK blunders seem to be absent on Fox, Drudge, the Weekly Standard, and National Review. I wonder why that is? Rebuked by the Prime Minister? Check. Ridiculed by the Mayor of London? Check. Accidentally revealed secret meetings with MI6? Check. Referred to a nation that doesn't exist? Check. Insulted his British hosts? Check. Hilarious. It's made even funnier by how quickly the main stream conservative media runs from it. (But it will be a lot less funny and a lot more embarrassing if/when he is elected president.) Link to comment
Yossarian Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Wrong again, carly. Fox reported it. Link to comment
HSKR Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Wrong again, carly. Fox reported it. Apparently someone didn't check Drudge today either before copying the daily talking points. Curious. Link to comment
krill Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." -- George W. Bush I figure Romney is the kind of guy who keeps a copy of Bushisms and Jack Handey quotes on his nightstand for days like today. Link to comment
sd'sker Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Wrong again, carly. Fox reported it. whoa... carly? why are you making it personal? better ask for permission before you refer to him/her as 'carly'. not cool. also, surprised you watch fox, always appreciated your posts for their independence. 1 Link to comment
Blackshirts007 Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Romney didn't have a chance when he decide to run against Barrack. Can we just not have a president? Link to comment
carlfense Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Wrong again, carly. Fox reported it. whoa... carly? why are you making it personal? better ask for permission before you refer to him/her as 'carly'. not cool. also, surprised you watch fox, always appreciated your posts for their independence. No . . . it's fine. Link to comment
carlfense Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Wrong again, carly. Fox reported it. Apparently someone didn't check Drudge today either before copying the daily talking points. Curious. Grudgingly . . . long after the fact. (In fact, it looks like those were after I checked but I can't be sure unless you guys share links.) Where were the screaming headlines? The flashing fonts? The BREAKING NEWS? I suppose Mitt will just retroactively cancel his international tour. Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 This is the best the GOP could do. SMH LINK Mitt Romney is making quite the impression on his European tour. On his first day of official appearances in London, the candidate's remarks about security at the 2012 Olympics raised the ire of the British press. But everyone knows you haven't really won a news cycle until Twitter has coined you a hashtag, and the microblogging service obliged Thursday afternoon with #Romneyshambles. The tag has been used by everyone from journalists: To those eager to combine the London missteps with older Romney gaffes: Jill Lawless, a London-based correspondent for the AP, stepped in with some backstory on the neologism. The suffix "shambles" seems to be a popular one that's already in use around the Olympics: Link to comment
carlfense Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 #RomneyShambles is funny . . . but the trend of tagging Romney tweets with #AmericanBorat is funnier. Link to comment
HSKR Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Wrong again, carly. Fox reported it. Apparently someone didn't check Drudge today either before copying the daily talking points. Curious. Grudgingly . . . long after the fact. (In fact, it looks like those were after I checked but I can't be sure unless you guys share links.) Where were the screaming headlines? The flashing fonts? The BREAKING NEWS? I suppose Mitt will just retroactively cancel his international tour. The fact that it was on Drudge all day since the morning as the headline tells me you never checked in the first place. So now you are changing your story from not reporting to grudgingly reporting? Interesting. I also find it interesting that the original post was completely lacking any kind of link for verification yet you require a link from everyone else or you don't believe it. Very odd indeed. As for what Romney did, I completely agree, in fact I think it's even worse as a candidate to be pissing off our country's best ally before you are even get elected if he were to win. At least if Obama was saying this stuff, he would have already built some kind of relationship with the UK and it would be easier to fix. If Romney would get elected, things like this would only start the relationship in a hole. The more I have seen of Romney since he has locked the nomination, the less impressed I am. So this leaves me with just one last question. Did you make the original post as a copy and paste of some daily left talking points and not actually verify what they said yourself or are you simply making stuff up? Parrot or liar, which is it? Link to comment
carlfense Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 The fact that it was on Drudge all day since the morning as the headline tells me you never checked in the first place. Sure didn't see it when I checked. I was looking specifically to see what the spin would be. Nada. I also find it interesting that the original post was completely lacking any kind of link for verification yet you require a link from everyone else or you don't believe it. Very odd indeed. It'd seem a lot less odd to you if you'd stop and think about it. How do you go about proving that someone ISN'T reporting on something? I could provide direct links to the main pages of Drudge, Fox, etc. However, then when you stop to actually think . . . you realize that those sites change over time. Isn't that something? If you are talking about a summary of Romney's blunders, here you go: http://www.guardian....-britain-gaffes If you're talking about the lack of coverage perhaps someone more skilled in the ways of the internets than I can post a link to how a site looks at a given time in the past. So now you are changing your story from not reporting to grudgingly reporting? Not reporting as of the time of my post. After my post they did have some minor stories. That's not me changing my story . . . that's the story itself changing. It happens sometimes. That said, it never made their BIG NEWS of the day area from what I saw. I think that might be a bit different if it had been Obama. Did you make the original post as a copy and paste of some daily left talking points and not actually verify what they said yourself or are you simply making stuff up? Neither. That's a decent false dichotomy though. Kudos. Link to comment
Lil' Red Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Aggravating one of our biggest allies probably isn't the best way to prove your expertise in foreign policy. Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Hey - at least he didn't throw up on the Prime Minister. That's a positive.... right? Link to comment
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