Watch Live: Second House Hearing on IRS Scandal

Live Blazecast Now: The Viral Videos from the IRS Hearing plus your comments

Government

Hot Mic Moment? Reporters Heard Planning Questions for Romney Before Presser

Sep. 12, 2012 3:50pm Becket Adams

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a press conference Wednesday issued a statement on the recent attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East and the White House’s handling of the situation.

Afterwards, he took questions from members of the press.

As noted by National Review Online, all but one of the questions asked of Gov. Romney had to do with his “tone” and/or whether he thought it was a good idea to criticize the administration’s initial response to the attack on the Cairo embassy.

Not a single reporter asked Romney what he thinks the U.S. should do going forward.

“[N]one of the questions asked Romney to give details or be more specific about what he thinks the United States should do,” NRO’s Katrina Trinko writes.

“[T]oday’s press conference was really an example of how the media sometimes just doesn’t deserve [access to a presidential candidate]. Let political consultants talk about the timing and tone of the statement. The candidate should be grilled on policy, on issues, on what he thinks is the right course going forward, not politics and strategy,” she adds.

Not long after writing that entry, The Right Scoop posted a video that appears to show that, yes, some of the reporters waiting to hear Gov. Romney’s statement on the embassy attacks coordinated their questions specifically to address his “tone” and his timing and not his policy:

Here is the transcription from The Right Scoop:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: …pointing out that the Republicans… *unintelligible* …Obama….

CBS REPORTER: That’s the question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: *unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: Yeah that’s the question. I would just say do you regret your question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Your question? Your statement?

CBS REPORTER: I mean your statement. Not even the tone, because then he can go off on…

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And then if he does, if we can just follow up and say ‘but this morning your answer is continuing to sound…’ – *becomes unintelligble*

CBS REPORTER: You can’t say that..

**Later**

CBS REPORTER: I’m just trying to make sure that we’re just talking about, no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you stand by your statement or regret your statement?

To be fair, it could be a simple conversation between a few of reporters making sure a specific question gets answered. However, considering NRO raised the point that every presser question was on this topic, it’s worth contemplating.

UPDATE– NewsBuster’s Tim Graham identifies the reporters heard in the video as NPR’s Ari Shapiro and CBS reporter Jan Crawford. He also gives us some perspective on the situation:

As one who worked in the White House, it should be said that reporters do sometimes coordinate to get a sense of what they want out of a press conference.

[...]

There’s nothing undemocratic or “corrupt” about journalists working together to decide what a story line is. But that story line can turn out to be a very biased line — as in expressing disbelief that Romney is “doubling down” on his Obama critique. Reporters sometimes mock the idea of a media “conspiracy,” but chats like these are certainly collaboration.

People often expect that reporters are competitive in gaining a scoop — but time in the press corps can convince you that reporters seem more nervous about straying from the journalism of the pack. They may be competitive in booking guests, but they’re often not competitive in establishing the theme of the day. They tend to unite on that.

What matters is the end product — were the reporters fair in their choice of questions?

Well, were the reporters fair? Considering the fact that almost every question focused on Romney’s “timing” and not on specific policies steps he’d take, is it any surprise many conservatives believe there was an agenda at play?

Follow Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) on Twitter

Front page photo source courtesy the AP.

In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

Back to The Blaze »

Comments (278)

RANGER1965
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:23pm
It’s a matter of perspective. The Progressive Media see’s every event, every activity, in regards to how it affects Obama. Obama is the foundation for everything, and Obama is right about everything.

So with that in mind, everything critical of the Obama administration, or that affects it negatively is to be questioned regarding it’s authenticity, and it’s sanity. The event itself becomes less important than the person who would dare to question Obama’s righteousness. In this manner Obama becomes to the media much like how we Christians think of God. A Christian looks at all the events and happenings in his life through the lens of God’s Word. In the same manner the progressive media see’s everything through the lens of Obama.

Sad isn’t it?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:30pm
  Very. Journ0lists again. And again.
  
  Report this comment
- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:35pm
  MSM urinalists at their best
  
  Report this comment
- Bluebonnet
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:43pm
  One good reason to NEVER, never believe anything the liberal media sez! They are a bunch of lap dogs who will one day get their due-due.
  This is why I never watch, read or subscribe to anything by the liberals (other than what we hear via repeats on conservative media.
  
  One thing I can say about these liberal news corps (corpse for some) they are sick people.
  
  Report this comment
- doomytram
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:25pm
  These Obozo journalist’s are like trained Mocking Bird Pigeons.. The narrative/ talking point’s are sent to the Obozo reporters and they all say thing same thing just in a different way.
  
  These Turds have just been shat out of Obozo’s campaign/val jarret/ axelrod /soros… Mocking Birds
  
  Report this comment
- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:48pm
  See the uphill battle Republicans have against our “chosen people” controlled Marxist Media? The Marxist Media are co-conspirators in this communistic takeover of this country. They are no longer on the average man’s side. They are on the communists side and are working with them in this takeover. Keep on worshiping your “chosen people” Blazers.
  
  Report this comment
- corporal27
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:57pm
  At the end, did you hear the woman reporter ask “I shouldn’t have my notebook visible should I?… because he could see what’s on it.” then she chuckles.. obviously stating she has an Obama sticker or some kind of political thing on there that would offend Romney. Where is the non-biased approach to media?
  
  Report this comment
- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:04pm
  Yeah ranger- dead on. Sad.
  
  I didn’t know this Obama messiah guy needed to be pampered so damn much. Isn’t he a grown man? Can’t he stand on his own two feet? Lib trolls can you indulge me in answering that?
  
  Apparently Romney is the only adult in the presidential race. The other guy has to have the entire media do his job for him- that is explaining his every failure. I thought Obama was so smart. So transcendent. So qualified. Why the constant coddling. The office of the presidency is a big boy job. It’s not for whiny pampers people. Must be a tough existence for lefties who haven’t accomplished anything in their lives defending a person who hasn’t accomplished anything in their life.
  
  Romney will win in a landslide because the American people are smarter than this and deserve better.
  
  Report this comment
- mersey
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:05pm
  Anyone paying attention already know that the main stream media are the enemy of the people. They longer serve a purpose to protect the people from an intrusive government. They are now a branch of the government and will be ignored. More and more people are finally coming to this realization.
  
  Report this comment
- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:08pm
  It’ll be the same way in the debates.
  
  Obama will have his answers on TelePrompTer because jarrett sent the questions he was to be asked to the lap dogs. Romney will have to answer off the cuff and the media will hope he says something they can report as a gaffe.
  
  Doesn’t matter. Obama is gone.
  
  Report this comment
- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:08pm
  Maybe it’s time for a Tea Spring or better yet, a Tea Winter and wipe the scourge of Bolshevism from America once and for all. Wake up and take your country back from the commies! Expel all the traitors to the Constitution.
  
  Report this comment
- mersey
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:10pm
  That should be……they no longer serve. Come Blaze, get an edit button on this forum.
  
  Report this comment
- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:19pm
  Ari Shapiro-mentally ill gay man filled with hatred towards Republicans.
  
  CBS reporter Jan Crawford-allegedly married and had kids with a “chosen person” lawyer Douglas N. Greenburg.
  
  Go figure…..
  
  Report this comment
- Hanner
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:40pm
  How many of the same questions does Romney have to field from this liberal wolfpack? I would answer only once and whoever else asked the same question would be promptly thrown out. Romney knows that these people are nothing but a bunch of vipers. Sometimes you just have to get a little stupid to get a little respect. He could take some pointers from Christie. That guy will eat a stupid reporter for lunch.
  
  Report this comment
- Perfuzenone
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:59pm
  Ranger you are correct! I have trouble saying the word “JOURNALIST”
  
  Report this comment
- 1947
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:22pm
  Romney is the type of LEADER President this country needs….. Obama golf man
  
  Report this comment
- 1947
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:24pm
  At lease he works on a plan of something……..Obama still doesn’t a budget or a PLAN of America
  
  Report this comment
- WakingSheep
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:43pm
  I hope we at least struggle through the next 4 years…..
  Romney is Keynesian!
  Keynesian and capitalism don’t coexist!
  I hope we make it so we might be able to find a better candidate and the GOP wakes up from the “anybody but Obama” dream.
  Yeah Romney was a businessman. I get that.
  What about everything else?
  Has he mentioned cutting one agency? Program?
  How about getting rid of a single executive order?
  His lawyers should be able to dig up one unConstitutional order! Ha! 1….
  Second time to vote and I get…….. MORE OF THE SAME
  
  Report this comment
- DRAGONSEED
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:48pm
  Yes, it is sad. You summed things up pretty accurately. Sad, indeed.
  
  Report this comment
- Cemoto78
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:02pm
  And this shocks who?
  
  Report this comment
- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:05pm
  The Great thing about MITT is that he always tells the truth and he is what you see (is what you get)
  That’s what is SO GREAT ABOUT ALWAYS TELLING THE TRUTH:
  
  You never have to back track; you never have to cover something “overheard”…TRUTH is the GOAL.
  GOOD FOR MITT!!
  
  Report this comment
- NeoFan
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:09pm
  The correct term is propagandist. Their has not been a real journalist in the main stream media for decades.
  
  Report this comment
- Vote-The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Puppet show, people, puppet show.
  
  Barack “ObamaCare” Obama or Mit “RomneyCare” Romney … let “the Press” play their role, let Obama posture, let Romney posture … they’re all in the nest of socialism/communism.
  
  Romney may be the Republican candidate, but Democrats AND Republicans have slid to the “government dictatorship” side of the freedom scale … to where there’s no appreciable difference AS REGARDS OUR LIBERTY:
  
  “AMERICA’S LOST HISTORY! :: Glenn Beck UNVEILS Our Plunge Into Obama’s Marxist Tyranny!!”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukc-z9MmEiU
  
  Report this comment
- jzs
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:51pm
  Seriously, why bother asking Romney about a policy issues? You’re not going to get an answer. We know he says he’s going to reduce the deficit, while reducing taxes and raising the military budget (even though we already spend more than the next 20 countries COMBINED). So how is he going to do that? You’re never get an answer to that question. Nor will you get a concrete answer to any foreign policy issue. Or any issue.
  
  Don’t you get it? Romney is simply running against President Obama. He’s not about to take a single position on any issue. He’s already taken every single possible position on every single issue. And he’s just gonna stick with that. It’s like a Rorschach test. You’ll see what you want to.
  
  Report this comment
- coolcat
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 9:19pm
  They need to regret this.
  
  I would say a boycott of CBS advertisers until she is fired and the PBS guy should be canned as well.
  
  Maybe if Romney’s people had some guts they would ask that the PBS person who was moderator one of the debates be replaced with someone from FOX.
  
  The Repubs should then put together an ad with these clips and run them on on the networks as well.
  
  Report this comment
- Wildape
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 9:36pm
  People who are not in my social circle talk about the bias press. People are beginning to catch on in wide swaths. For me, my confidence in the accuracy of the election tally and the gathering of the news is gone. I hope Romney wins by a wide margin. I’d like to see these news agencies disappear down to CNN ratings.
  
  Report this comment
- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:07pm
  To anyone with half a mind their agenda is plain to see, too bad that over half of Americans do not have half a mind!
  
  Report this comment
- 1proud_Texan
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:13pm
  Obama sure didn’t mind having dual press conferences with Bush. I was amazed when Obama would have his president elect podium in front of him.
  
  Report this comment
- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:14pm
  Bammy is just like allah, Can’t do the job himself, has to have his little clay worshippers do it for him….. A real GOD doe not need help, goes to show that a man must worship something, If not the true GOD, then a man or a theory or something ELSE… They do not believe God so they believe Bammy.
  
  Report this comment
- Dejavu
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:49pm
  @JZS, you douche…..at least Romney isn’t Obama. Get a grip you America hating turd.
  
  Report this comment
- listeninginVT
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:51pm
  Ranger- an excellent and accurate explanation.
  
  Report this comment
- lovenfl3
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:08pm
  I’m not sure how even the farthest left loon could suggest that Obama is not responsible for everything that is Libya. The same can be said for everything that is happening in Egypt as well.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGYIgfdEA-M
  
  Report this comment
- Max jones
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:47pm
  RANGER1965…..This polarization isn’t “sad”, it is inspiring. I see every day another prophetic detail or two and see the inevitable culmination appearing right before my eyes. Yeah, I know it may be sad the way this country is circling the bowl, But just like Christ had to die so we could welcome the ‘comforter’, this reality must collapse so that our new life can begin. A scriptural Christian, knows the truth, and has an armored vehicle in the Gospel.
  It does not matter who wins the election, if there is an election, there is no way to stop what God has put into motion…..The bust and re-chaining of our enemy. He is the **** here on this earth, big and bad, with an ARMY of grunts and an infinite budget, but, this force is not ready, and won’t be able to handle what is coming. Funny, only a very small number knows the truth( in comparison).
  They are afraid of Christ and so are they afraid of Christians. They will lie, cheat, steal and kill, all behind the scenes, for they are fearful cowards, following along hoping to find favor with the BOSS
  Soon, they have to try to disarm America. There is a plan in the works….They WILL shoot to kill.
  They better shoot to kill, we are not going down without a fight. Even if it is only the Word of God we
  have for ammo.
  
  Report this comment
- Shiroi Raion
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:07am
  It’s sad to see people behaving so badly and trying to smear a humble man and obsequiously kowtowing to dishonesty and arrogance.
  
  Report this comment
- Max jones
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:10am
  OBAMA_ROMNEYand JZS…..You both make good points, and the reason is this….The same people who installed Obama in the presidency, know that Romney will not be able to solve anything, This one way trip to the NWO, is non-refundable. The dollar is toast. We have no definable foreign policy, but capitulation, and a military weakened by cowards and traitors in positions of power. I hope you enjoy the coming holocaust. Oh and JZS, you’d better learn to submit…you don’t have the brass to stand up to what is in store for lying, deluded wimps.
  
  Report this comment
- MadAsHeII
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:24am
  @PattyHenry, If Mitt Romney is such a stand up guy, why did he allow his campaign to actually violate federal law during the primary? Why did he allow his campaign to change the rules at the convention in order to shut up the grassroots all over the country and allow the RNC and chairman Bainer to ignore the voice of the People when asked to vote on the changes? You are not looking at facts, you are basing your decisions on emotion. That is a very bad way to rule the way you vote. Everyone should look at both conventions and see that both parties ignored the voice of their constituents to do exactly what they wanted to do. Is that the America that you have always thought you were part of? You need to do as my handle says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08&feature=player_embedded
  If you want real change, you have to get MADASHEII and not vote in either main party. You need to coalesce around a third party candidate and send a clear message that we are mad as heII and we are not going to take it any more. If we do not, then America is done and we will never see it the way it was supposed to be ever again.
  
  Report this comment
- NeoFan
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:12am
  The only thing I hear of MSM report ards is when a conservative blog posts a clip to make fun of them. They all claim that Obama is god and they have orgasms or wet themselves when he speaks. Just look at the ratings. The MSM won’t be around much longer. Romney could be a a complete moron and still look like Einstein next to Mr 57 states.
  
  Report this comment
- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:45am
  BLOODY immature MSM…they forgot what being a real journalist..they went back to HIGH SCHOOL.. ROMNEY can eat little creeps like you for lunch and spit you out for dinner. You don’t become a multimionalre businessman and not know who to handle ambush’s..
  
  The part that bothers me most is that most of these creeps are AMERICANS… Don’t they understand they will lose freedom if their “hero” Muslim/Marxist/Communist/One-worlder/Dictator wins again??
  GEEESZZ.
  
  MITT was great. Paul Ryan was great. It was a relief to hear an ADULT stand up for AMERICA…and as far as that two-faced twit in Afghanistan: BRING ALL OF OUR TROOPS HOME NOW. NOW.
  GO swing in the breeze you corrupt twit Karzai …. YOU blew it. YOU stand over there in the pit with all the other sleazy animals… YOU had a chance to bring a great future to your country…schools, roads, hospitals, jobs, factories, etc. but you little twit…all you wanted was to line your own pocket…head on back to the poppie fields twit. We’re done with you.
  
  Report this comment
- jzs
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:19am
  This is shocking! Two reporters, standing around waiting, actually spoke to one another? And talked about what questions they were going to ask? That’s a liberal conspiracy if I ever heard one!
  
  Anyway, why bother asking Romney anything. He doesn’t have any political positions and if he does, he’s not about to say what they are. He wouldn’t have a chance at winning the election if anybody actually has a clue what he was for or against. He’s not Obama, that’s all he has to run on.
  
  Report this comment
- 1592
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:59am
  They do the same thing to Obama, just the Questions are much more kind.
  HYPOCRITES…………………
  
  Report this comment
- peeoui
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 8:35am
  I used to subscribe to Time for years and my gosh if I missed the evening news, i was sick.
  Now at that time of day I watch Lifetime Movie Network. about as truthful as news. Really
  
  Report this comment
- Zipit
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 8:38am
  JZS….. You’re simply an idiot, if you fail to recognize that the sole purpose of these reporters in collaborating as they did, was to embarrass, ridicule, and attempt to trip up Mitt Romney.
  
  @vote the Obama Romney ticket, is that you BWS?
  
  Report this comment
- SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 9:37am
  @ JZS…I remember seeing your bio and if memory serves me I believe you are some type of professor in central or south America, correct? If this is correct I also know that many of our neighbors to the south are either socialists at heart or hate America for many varied reasons (not all, but many). Finally, what does it say about the kind of president Obama has been or about his record if Romney simply has to “show up” and simply avoid taking positions to beat him as you assert? Obama is one of the worst Presidents in this nations history (along with Woodrow Wilson). His ideology and tactics will eventually in my opinion bring this country to its knees regardless of who wins the election in November. Besides I believe that a number of our last few presidents really all want the same thing when you lQQk at their core policies, bigger government. Clinton, Bush (W), Obama (Romney?) all have increased the size of government, and entitlements. Just lQQk at the similarities between Bush (who the left hated) and Obama (who they worship): Patriot act (check), Guantanamo (check), Continued presence in Afghanistan (check), Increased health care costs and coverage dramatically (check), Expanded authority of Goverment (check), Bailouts (check), Both men have had to authorize military action against questionable leadership in an OPEC country (check), Both let China have their way (check), Russia policy (check) neither will do a thing about immigration problems (check)…..
  
  Report this comment
- Walkabout
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 10:09am
  jzs
  the military budget (even though we already spend more than the next 20 countries COMBINED
  ***
  Mexican wages are 3 times cheaper than Americans. Chinese wages are cheaper still ( 7X cheaper).
  
  So the structural costs of equipping the Chinese military are cheaper than the American military.
  
  We could talking in terms of PURCHASING POWER PARITY. But even if you had a PHD which I sincerely doubt I don’t think you could wrap your teeny mind around the concept.
  
  I want to know how many men the Chinese have under arms, what & how weapons they have & how capable those weapons are. Last I want to know the trend line for the above.
  
  The Chinese threat is real. That is why the the Vietnamese are cozying up to us.
  
  Report this comment
- Walkabout
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 10:14am
  JZS
  
  When you pull cherry picked statistics out you *********,
  such as unemployment (U3) or U.S. Military budget comparison to other nations keep in mind some thing like
  
  Labor Force participation rate & Purchasing Power Parity.
  
  http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ppp.asp#ixzz26MKFlAyd
  http://economics.about.com/od/unemploymentrate/f/labor_force.htm
  
  Please try to keep up JZS.
  
  Report this comment
- NeoFan
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 10:57am
  This has back fired on the media and their candidate. Romney is now one point up in the biased MSM polls so probably 10 to 15 points in reality. Zero couldnt fill a stadium like he did in 2008 when everyone had no idea who he was. Now with movies like 2016 and Glenn beck having his own network the word is out on the imposter. It will be evident weeks before the election that we are seeing a replay of 1980 when the country rejected another liberal idiot. President Romney will not be stopped by a few **** licking news agencies and their minions. Liberalism is stupidity.
  
  Report this comment
- Walkabout
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:17am
  SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
  JZS was at Easter Island. If he wasn’t there for personal interest or vacation, then I assume he was there or research. So I guess that he is a professor of anthropology, archeology or sociology or something like that. He is definitely of the soft sciences. Those fields can use a lot of math, but some profs still get away with being very subjective & not is analytical. they say they are because they can talk a good game of Marxist claptrap. He or she was also a girls scout leader so they are some sort of American. Not sure if they are South America or North American. I lean to the latter, but it is hard to say.
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:54pm
  NO, the Progressives see everything GOOD as EVIL, IF it does not benefit themselves!
  Their favorite words:
  DOMINATION
  CONTROL
  ENSLAVEMENT
  
  I think it is as simple as that!
  
  BTW: when Romney become our next President in November (January), I think HE SHOULD PREVENT THESE SAME MEDIA PEOPLE FROM ACCESS TO THE WH. If he does not, they could cause great harm to him by DOCTORING and CREATING BAD INFORMATION, also known as half-truths and LIES.
  
  These same people LOVE OBAMA, so why would you want those same people in a NEW CONSERVATIVE WHITE HOUSE??????????
  
  I do hope Romney understands this and is planning accordingly!
  
  God bless America! AMERICANS SHOULD BE BLESSING GOD!
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:01pm
  @jzs:
  Me do think you are a PROGRESSIVE troll.
  http://2012.republican-candidates.org/Romney/Issues.php
  And, if you want to know HOW HE VOTED BUT FEELS PERSONALLY:
  http://www.ontheissues.org/Mitt_Romney.htm
  
  DUH!
  
  BTW: Romney cannot OUTLAW ANYTHING, including abortion because IT IS ALREADY THE LAW OF THE LAND. However, he can:
  
  1. Give us a viable BUDGET
  2. Give us decisive leadership
  3. Give us a reformed and downsized government
  4. Give us more FREEDOM, according to the Constitution
  5. Give us a moral character leadership that allows him to lead WISELY
  6. Give us BACK AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM!!!
  
  ANY QUESTIONS, DUFUS?
  
  Report this comment
- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:07pm
  ROMNEY IS MAGNIFICENT!!! HE did exactly the right thing, exactly at the right time. Obama can only blame his sorry self. He is the one who ignored the security input. He is the one who didn’t have the brains to make sure ALL of our EMBASSY’S had ENHANCED SECURITY for 9/11/12. WHAT A DOPE what about this article? http://freebeacon.com/reports-marines-not-permitted-live-ammo/
  Watch out. read it and your head will explode!
  
  NOTE that the SOB OBAMA probably reads the BLAZE as today he is using OUR WORDS and saying things that we’ve all said: THE USA is different from other nations, we are a nation based upon an IDEA , that idea being freedom.
  That TRAITOROUS SOB would not know FREEDOM if he slept it… and he sleeps with all types of things.
  YOU GO ROMNEY!!! WE ARE BEHIND YOU!!! I hope ROMNEY will take apart the bloody State Dept. especially on the LACK of anticipation of danger on 9/11′s and HOW DARE any twitty woman dare to dictate to our MARINES. I am a woman, I am a strong woman. I can’t stand most women in office…if they are these gutless PC code pink jerks. THEY put forth their crap and then when their hands are rapped they run back to their feminism. ARGHHHHHHHHHHH
  
  Report this comment
- Drives Like Jehu
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:01pm
  ooh…ooh…a dry run by the demonrat media for the upcoming debates???
  
  Report this comment
- jzs
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Hey Sleazy! Yes, it’s true. I’m a professor in country south of the United States. Somebody tracked me down and figured out who am based on the three letters my username. Pretty amazing really and I’m amazed at this individual’s resourcefulness.
  
  And it’s also true that the entire region south of the US is simply crawling with socialists and socialist countries. That’s true of Europe too. And China and Russia. And of course the US has been socialist following the imposition of anti-trust laws and Social Security and Medicare (two of the most popular programs is US history). In fact, because of the way the right uses the words “socialist” and “communist” includes virtually ever person and country on Earth, some people are in favor of going back the the dictionary definition of those two terms. If that happens those words might actually mean something again. Maybe India is capitalist?
  
  Obama is the worst President in history? That’s a matter of opinion isn’t it? Here is a different opinion: http://www.siena.edu/uploadedfiles/home/parents_and_community/community_page/sri/independent_research/Presidents%20Release_2010_final.pdf
  
  No problem with your comparison of Bush and Obama (I could quibble, but okay), something which is a problem for Obama in the election. Lots of liberals have given up on him for the reasons you mentioned. Good post as far as that goes.
  
  Report this comment
Mike Benton
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:15pm
What’s this I hear about media bias….???

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Oneirishman
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Nothin Mike. Just another vast rightwing consperacy by the same ppl who are crazy enough to suggest global warming is faked.
  
  Report this comment
- Quiata
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:33pm
  Obama’s Palace Guards synchronize their watches…and sharpen their blades. It’s gonna get even uglier with each passing day towards the election.
  
  Report this comment
- Cymry
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:01pm
  the emperor has no clothes, no natural born citizenship, no class, no morals, no experience, no common sense, no christian faith, no nothing.
  
  the current media is not the press spoken of by the founders.
  
  both obama and the media are bastardizations – literally, in many contexts – of what was originally conceived of by the founders.
  
  Report this comment
- RLTW
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:13pm
  It’s amazing to think about the liberal media and how cheap 22LR is, I love a good deal.
  
  Report this comment
- Vote-The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:34pm
  Quiata – “Obama’s Palace Guards synchronize their watches…and sharpen their blades.”
  
  That sounds kind-of muslim. Nah, Obama can’t be muslim … ’cause muslims hate America:
  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4_OmBEc7iU8/SibzrVhaWvI/AAAAAAAABbA/_kte_BwrcS4/s320/obama-muslim.jpg
  http://usa2008.blox.pl/resource/Clinton_Obama_Richardson_rally.jpg
  http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/muslim-obama.jpg
  
  Report this comment
- Vote-The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:41pm
  Quiata – “Obama’s Palace Guards synchronize their watches…and sharpen their blades.”
  
  That sounds kind-of muslim. Nah, Obama can’t be muslim … ’cause muslims hate America:
  htp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4_OmBEc7iU8/SibzrVhaWvI/AAAAAAAABbA/_kte_BwrcS4/s320/obama-muslim.jpg
  htp://usa2008.blox.pl/resource/Clinton_Obama_Richardson_rally.jpg
  htp://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/muslim-obama.jpg
  
  Report this comment
- Max jones
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:24am
  Obama is no more than a designated hitter, a judas goat, installed in his position to dismantle the republic and disarm the populace, in preparation of the inevitable absorption into the NWO. The reason he was chosen for the job is he is amoral. Ideologically driven, he has learned to compartmentalize and separate himself from what he is doing. He’s perfect for the job. He should be able move up, if he survives.
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:03pm
  @Max jones:
  OBAMA IS A TRAITOR TO OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION AND SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON.
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Go back to sleep. Mike…..sleep……..zzzzzzzzzzz
  
  Report this comment
Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:15pm
Pitiful lapdogs.. No self respect at all. Voodoo Journalism.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Hugh Williams
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 8:06pm
  The so called mainstream media is nothing more than an arm of the Democrat party. In all totalitarian regimes the media is controlled by the powers in charge of the government. With the exception of The Blaze, Fox and talk radio the media reports what the government wants them to report. Obama and the leftist want to bring back The Fairness Doctrine to silence The Blaze, Fox and talk radio. Then the people will be much easier to lie to and control.
  
  Report this comment
- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 9:28pm
  Aka, the Democrat media………PERIOD.
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:56pm
  @Hugh Williams: Yes, you are correct. However, as long as there are TRUE PATRIOTS in this country, there will always be an opposing view and a challenge to their tyranny. I, for one, will do whatever I can peacefully to keep our freedoms and liberties, for as long as I can, OR until the Lord returns.
  
  These progressive liberals have no idea who is the REAL GOD IS and what HE is going to do to them when HE returns. THEY HAVE NO IDEA………….hint: it won’t be pretty, I guarantee it.
  
  Report this comment
mlimberg
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:09pm
Does anyone really listen or read what these idiots say or write?

They live in their own world…. and I’m all too happy to help them find that lost world of theirs….

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:15pm
  They live in Jrassic Park
  
  Report this comment
- The_Woofster
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:42pm
  Unfortunately many do listen.
  
  Report this comment
- CatB
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:42pm
  The uneducated .. aka Obama voters.
  
  Report this comment
- starman70
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 9:32pm
  Unfortunately, a lot of people do listen to the talking heads and the print blather from the NY Times. They follow the Obama mantra with blinders on. When not watching the Mainstream’s politbureau propaganda, they waste their time watching “You Can be a Star”, “Jersey Shores”, Doprah Winfrey, or immerse themselves in sports broadcasts as did the Romans did in the coloseum.
  
  People have been brainwashed by the liberal school systems to follow like sheep. They are taught that to think for ones self is a sin.
  
  Report this comment
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:09pm
MSM: Mr Romney, do you regret not kissing Obama’s **** when you had the chance, and if you become president, will you bow lower than Obama or just the same amount when appologizing to terrorist nations?
Romney: What?????
MSM: Oh, I see you are anti-gay/anti-womens rights. Can I quote you on that?
Romney: What the heck are you talking about, as President, I wont bow to anyone. That isn’t what a leader is supposed to do.
MSM: So you admit your racist and just want brown people to die?
Romney: Look, at least take off the Obama 2012 button before you interview me. Seem like you are neutral.
MSM: Great we got the talking point for tomorrow “Mitt tells reporters to go to Hell.” Thanks Mitt, see you tomorrow.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- JBaer
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:25pm
  That about sums it up Darmok!
  
  Report this comment
- HappyHaloHousewife
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:00pm
  OmGosh, that is so true. Sad, but true.
  
  Report this comment
- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:39pm
  So true! and funny.
  
  Report this comment
- 5deploymentsandcounting
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:57pm
  I would laugh if it werent so true
  
  Report this comment
- ConservativeFirst
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:08pm
  Sadly, that pretty much sums it up!
  
  Report this comment
- Quiata
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:36pm
  Touche, Darmok! Spot on.
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:49pm
  Ha ha ha ha..exactly!
  
  Report this comment
Slayer
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:08pm
Want to end this nonsense by the media really fast? Cancel your cable TV NOW. Kill your television. Cancel your newspapers. Deprive the Left of the paycheck YOU provide every month. Or, just stop complaining and take it with a smile on your face when they tell you how stupid you are.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- dickdastardly
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:32pm
  As long as there is revenue from advertisers these “journalists” (and I am being very sarcastic with that term) will have a paycheck. Cancelling cable, etc…won’t feed the bulldog.
  
  Report this comment
- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:40pm
  Dick: Advertisers don’t advertise if no one is buying the product…..they chart this very carefully!
  
  Report this comment
- TrueSoundsOfLiberty
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:26am
  @Slayer
  
  You use their logo and their name, yet everything their songs are about are anti-right. Take the song “Jihad” it’s describing 9/11 from the eyes of the terrorists. Or the song “Cult” which proclaims “I’ve seen the ways of God, I’ll take the Devil any day, hail Satin”
  
  Or do you prefer their imagery of Nazi symbols? Even though Tom Araya is Chilean and Dave Lombardo is from Cuba.
  
  So tell me, pro-God or anti-god?
  White Power or not?
  
  Report this comment
- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:52pm
  @Slayer:
  I’d say that TRUESOUNDSOFLIBERTY KNOWS who you really are.
  Indeed, you seem like a hypocrite to me, like ENCINOM.
  
  Report this comment
Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:07pm
@ Dora & Marybeth – u 2 should go 2 Iran & hold hands , maybe a kiss here & there.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Ellie
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:06pm
As if we needed any more examples of MSM “journalistic ethics” in action. Clearly they are no longer in competition with each other. Their all just operatives of a single monolithic Democrat spin machine.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Gonzo
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:39pm
  I’m sure the collude on the tough questions they ask Obama as well…like ‘boxers or briefs?’.
  
  Report this comment
- AvengerK
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:11pm
  or “how enchanting is it being in the white house?”.
  
  Report this comment
- Fatheroftwo
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:45pm
  Avengerk:
  Obama spends little time in the White House! He’s to busy jetting around from party to party to be there to much! When was the last time he was seen in the Oval Office by-the-way?
  
  Report this comment
- louie louie
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:50pm
  Actually Gonzo, the boxers or briefs and favorite color questions are given to reporters from the white house. A radio interviewer revealed that he got a list of questions from the Obama campaign before he interviewed Obama. It was a list of fluff questions.
  
  Report this comment
peteto1
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:03pm
How’s that “Arab Spring” working out for you, Barry Carter? What a naive putz we have in office. November can’t come soon enough……

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- mlimberg
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:10pm
  AMEN….. Can wait to have GOD back on our side…….
  
  Report this comment
cloudsofwar
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:03pm
well theres no doubt about it the press is part of the Obama admin.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Now you know how the debates are going to go. All lefty BS.
  
  Report this comment
- Meyvn
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:31pm
  So now we have the Executive Branch, which wields far too much power, and the Legislative, Judicial and Journalistic Branches of government. What a farce.
  
  Report this comment
- ambrosia
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Obama Jazerra…24/7 !
  
  As a professional journalist,
  I would be SO embarrassed to be associated
  with any of these mindless, scheming, spit-swapping
  guinea hens & emasculated ****-a-doodle-do-wops !
  
  Oh, shh, just listen to them-
  they’re so fascinated with their dopey “Spin & Marty” strategy.
  
  Oh, if we butter up the trap
  with a little brie & a bottle of Corton-Charlemagne,
  & phrase the question ever so right-
  ooh-la-la…we’ll catch ourselves a big juicy Romney rat
  & King George Obaba-Louey will be re-elected !
  
  When thrir idiot loses this election,
  here’s hoping the Romney/Ryan administration snubs them,
  does not grant the ObamaMedia networks any special interviews
  or invite them to the White House Christmas party.
  
  This will leave these morons enough air time to continue coverage
  on The KarTrashians, stupid Housewife shows & Snooki Longstockings.
  
  No intelligent human being wastes their time watching any of this crap-
  we’ll get President Romney’s featured interviews
  and the rest of the unbiased news
  off Fox News & all the Conservative TV & Radio outlets.
  
  Just imagine-
  ALL that really takes place
  on their evil, little, liberal, political grapevine, off mic-
  Andrew Breitbart must be laughing his azz off !
  
  Report this comment
elosogrande
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:03pm
All the fellow travelers from the press are interested in one thing – get Obama re-elected so he can finish his plan to “transform America”. Kruschev said they would destroy us from within. I’m glad the fat s.o.b. didn’t live to see it happen.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
The_Woofster
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:02pm
What else would we expect from a state run media that’s been fashioned after the defunct soviet union!

I just can’t wait to see it all on the Nationalist News tonight.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
RightUnite
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:02pm
Wow… Talk about being in the tank for Obama…

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
tightline
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:01pm
Romney should not back down, speak your mind and move on and help get us out of the hole that we are in, and get our people away from that hate in the middle east…

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:08pm
  yea i would like to hear some answers
  
  Report this comment
- SimpleTruths
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:25pm
  By doing what? Sending more of our young men and women to their death fighting an expensive losing war? Romney has no idea what he’s doing and its more and more evident every time he opens his yap.
  
  Report this comment
- Dejavu
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:55pm
  @Simpleton…..your are a moron and prove it every time you emote. Sheesh.
  
  Report this comment
- Max jones
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:17am
  simple truths .it comes down to a matter of right and wrong…morally. I don’t think this nation can be “saved”, for we no longer know what we are being saved from. The left is dishonest. Thieves and extortionists, with seemingly clear consciences, due to the masquerade the left has adopted that presents people like Obama as acting “for the people”….They are acting in accordance with precepts of the NWO….A politico-religious, fascist, monster that looks at 90% of the world;’s population as not viable. Not valuable, literally, “dead weight”. And lets leave the abortion issue for another day.
  So….to sum it up….Romney may not be able to do much, its gone too far, but he still is a respectable, honest man, Obama is not.
  
  Report this comment
FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:01pm
Here’s the scary things folks, I grew up dirt poor in the inner city, I employ three of my child hood friends. I understand poor people. These people on the bottom are usually stupid lazy people who do vote. We’re screwed because the right wing of politics requires you to be informed, and that takes motivation and intelligence, something the average voter now days lacks. We’re all screwed brace for impact.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Tigress1
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:00pm
Romney handled the media during that press conference wonderfully. It was obvious that the media was like a bunch of rabid wolves, and he answered the question and left. That was a preview of how the media will act when he becomes President.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:16pm
  @ TIGRESS1 AMEN!! I agree…they can’t rattle him. he won’t play their game but they can’t rattle him. It’s very hard to rattle an honest man!! 55 days.
  
  Report this comment
- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:47pm
  A real president!!
  
  Report this comment
DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:59pm
“it’s worth contemplating”?!? It’s a fact that the MSM is in cahoots to get Obama re-elected by controlling the narrative and attacking Romney’s character. No contemplating, if, ands, or buts about it!

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Cranky
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:59pm
So, this is how reporters talk when they’re drunk on Obama Koolaid which, as we all know, is all the time.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:58pm
Commies bought 99% of our news station.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
haras42000
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:58pm
BUSTED i hope she loses her job this is what mitt has to deal with all he time.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
woodyee
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:58pm
They’re despicably biased. Should we learn their names, they should be forced to turn in their cards.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
For my Liberty!
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:57pm
Anyone surprised??? NOT!

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
soybomb315_II
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:54pm
well if Romney didnt turn it into political theater, the reporters wouldn’t have gotten defensive about their dear leader. Romney shouldn’t wait for the proper question – just tell us what you would be doing

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- My3Girls
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Did you read the article carefully and completely? The reporters planned their questions BEFORE Romney even spoke! The questions were pre-planned. That’s the point of the story.
  
  Report this comment
- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:18pm
  @MY3GIRLS: Don’t expect anything more from SOYBOMB or whatever…he’s a PAULBOT or maybe a secret OBAMA dope… :) Like dog poop in the street, just step over him. I hate having to say that
  about any blogger on the BLAZE but this guy has a history of obnoxious comments like this. He hates ROMNEY….too bad widdle SOYBOMBER… The rest of us INCLUDING RAND PAUL ENDORSE ROMNEY.
  
  Report this comment
- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:22pm
  @My3Girls
  Did you read my post? I said Romney should tell the American public what should be done over there…..Regardless of the press questions
  
  Report this comment
- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:29pm
  By “political theater” i am talking about his remarks from this morning
  
  Report this comment
- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:32pm
  @ Soy sauce – I’m not waitting either , ur a idiot.
  
  Report this comment
- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:33pm
  Math again. The ruin of every bot.
  
  Report this comment
RealCowboy
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:54pm
DUH are we surprised?

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
BurntHills
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:54pm
what vile obama-cowards, totally in the tank for that filthy fecal rabid animal obama and this proves it AGAIN. ——— wish they’d reveal just WHO it was planning to ambush Romney.

Romney/Ryan in Nov., we’re voting for the AMERICANS.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply

It appears that you have Javascript Disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences for a better user experience on TheBlaze. You can not comment without Javascript enabled.