More Hackery from The Politico
They don't even try to disguise it...
In the June 22 edition of his daily "Politico Playbook," Politico chief political correspondent Mike Allen praised former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) June 21 speech on national security at the American Enterprise Institute's World Forum as "very ambitious and serious" and dubbed Romney "Multimedia Mitt," inviting readers to "[c]heck out the 31 Power Point slides former Gov. Romney used last night." Allen, however, offered no explanation as to why Romney's speech was, as he put it, "very ambitious and serious." Indeed, Allen acknowledged that he had not seen Romney's speech and hadn't read it in full -- he noted that the speech was "closed to the press under AEI rules" and that the campaign released only "excerpts" of the speech. Moreover, Allen did not note, as the weblog Think Progress did, that the excerpts of Romney's "serious" national security speech included no substantive remarks on the Iraq war.
Allen went on to highlight New York Times and Associated Press articles on a nonprofit organization set up by Democratic candidate John Edwards, which both articles said has allowed him to maintain a public profile even though he is no longer in public office. Allen wrote that the articles "make John Edwards' altruism look a little less altruistic."
Allen, however, still has not addressed a June 19 Newsday report that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) quit the Iraq Study Group (ISG) after failing to attend a single meeting, and instead delivered public speeches that earned him $300,000.
C'mon guys, seriously, this is embarrassing. At least make a pretense of being journalists.
I keep getting error messages from wordpress. After I reload several times, it finally works. Am I alone with this problem? I sure hope wordpress doesn't catch whatever illness haloscan had.
More mindless media misgivings from the mysogynistic miscreant, Mike Allen.
Mitt promised to double Gitmo - put five times as many people in it and torture them to death!
Yeah, who needs to show up to anything after that. He da man!
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Okay, this is totally weird. That first comment of mine up there as #1 was posted much earlier today on a completely different post but it never showed up. How in the world did it show up here and now? That's bizarre!
Wow! Think Mike Allen has a little case of Mittomania?
Give Allen a break, he probably just got a good strong whiff of Mitt and was sMitten.
the politico is not worth wasting one's time checking out. i tried, it sucks. same MSM schmoes, bigger chip on their shoulders. chris mattews thinks they're great, need i say more?
And they come from the ComPost. Where have you gone Katherine Graham?
I've read that Allen is a very nice guy, but he's consistently produced hack jobs that the Bushies love.
Maybe the smell of Mitt has them entranced!!!
Let me get this straight. We just HEAR that Romney has these amazing, serious ideas, and people fawn all over it?
Don't we even ring the bell to get the Pavlovian response anymore? You mean we just tell the dog that the bell has wrung?
Why did Allen think it was very serious?
Because Mitt had 31 Power Point slides!
Hey Allen! Come to one of our sales meetings sometime!
I promise you will be dazzled by our seriousness!
Idiot.
Here's another insight into Romney and foreign policy.
(From the blog Rising Hegemon):
Holy Moroni!
We're not supposed to question Mitt Romney's mormon faith...because that would be wrong of us.
Yet, it sure seems like that not so ol' time religion came in handy when young Mitt needed it:
As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.
Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies. When his deferments ended and he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual lottery that determined which young men were drafted. His high number ensured he was not drafted into the military...
"By serving as a missionary and being given the deferment, Romney ensured that he would not be drafted from July 1966 until February 1969. Romney's draft record from the time describes him as "minister of religion or divinity student." Mayo said the church would have considered Romney a minister.
Romney, who has said he would have served if he had been drafted, shed some light on his view of the matter in a recent interview with the Globe.
"I really don’t recall thinking about political positions when I was knocking at the door in France" as a missionary, Romney said. "I was supportive of my country. I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."
It seems to me that the military would except mormons in the army. I hardly think they were that picky unless you were gay. If he longed to be inViet Nam, he could have found a way to get there. They were still taking recruits.
"If he longed to be inViet Nam, he could have found a way to get there. They were still taking recruits".
Ron, I'm pretty sure that thought will occur to ever one to whose attention it is brought. Which is why I copied, pasted, and posted it upthread.
I hope some one brings it to McCain's attention, and asks him to comment.
Wow, 31 PP slides. That must have been a yawner.
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