oh boy, he just sank himself. Romney's biggest opponent is Romney

what a way to award the nomination to McCain.......

hilarious!

its great to see reporters calling bullshit to there faces... be combative... make them defend themselves...

awesome! great job!

More info on Ron Kaufman: http://www.dutkoworldwide.com/professionals/search_by_name/ron_kaufman/

Also if you search the Senate Office of Public Records (http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=chooseFields) for his name you'll find who he's lobbied for.

I think Romney doesn't realize there's something called the "Internets" that can pretty much make him accountable for his statements. It's amazing. Information is returned through tubes.

That, people is a real journalist. You usually this kind of tenaciousness from british reporters. That man deserves a raise!

Glen Johnson is my hero. Erect a freaking statue for this guy. Finally, a real reporter.

ask questions?

hold them to their claims?

dissect the lies?

i seem to remember this being the job of a profession long ago called a "journalist"....but it's be so long i don't think that i recognized it.

Did you see that old hag at the end talking bout rude and ugly? Pot meet kettle!

I do my homework @ 13:

Did you see that old hag at the end talking bout rude and ugly? Pot meet kettle!

Caught that at the very end. Funny, we see journalists doing their job, and they get called "rude and ugly." The American people are so far removed from actual journalism entails. It isn't unquestioning allegiance!

You have gotta love the KoolAid drinker at the end of the video who tells Johnson, "I think you're rude. I think you are rude and ugly."

Will we be hearing from her when she learns that Mitt was...LYING?!?!

Crazy Horses!

By Romney's repeated examples, and being a bishop in his church, can pathological lying be taken as being considered a Mormon virtue?

It's "unprofessional" to disagree with a candidate. What kind of bizarroworld do these scumbags come from?

They think we are just supposed to accept what the candidate says at face value.

Morons.

Glen Johnson is my new hero also.

mitt will be fun to debate.

"meadow mountain massacre", anyone?

Paul @ 24:

BTW, isn't AP owned by the Unification church? This could be an example of two religious cults going to each other's throats because their adherants despise each other. A Moonie ambush.

UPI is owned by Moon.

cheesesauce @ 18:

Gosharooney! That reporter wasn't being fluffy enough. He needs to learn from CBS's Couric and NBC's Lauer, ABC, and the Faux Shmooz reporters about soft balls. The kind that rest on the chins of the other aforementioned "reporters" who dutifuly wash the cocks of the corporatistfascistrepulicktards with their tounges. Let's all be kinder, gentler, you know, more docile, more easily led. Can't we all just get along?

Hillarious! Thanks for the chuckle.

Love the venue!

Who is the guy telling Glen to be "professional" towards the end of the clip?

I thought a "professional" reporters job was to ask tough questions.

FYI, Associated Press is a nonprofit owned by a cooperative of newspapers.

♥♂ Angry Guy @ 28:

Johnson is like Diogenes wandering through the streets of washington looking for an honest man.

The real Diogenes would have just pissed on Romney's leg. In a metaphorical way, this reporter did just that. It's too bad there aren't more like him. Then again, his bosses might be supporting Ghooliani and he's just doing their bidding. Who knows?

This maintains what I've been saying all election. My favorite Romney is Off-Message Mittens.

It's like watching a child trapped in a burlap sack attempt to find his way through the wilderness with only his hands.

I have to somehow kinda of agree with what Mitt says. Ron Kauffman is a powerful man and he's the Repug chairman of Mass. So it's not awkward for him to be in Mitt's campaign as an adviser rather than a lobbyist. Furthurmore as Mitt said, true or not, he's not in their strategist meeting and not paid for by the campaign. So there's a distinction right there. I would also has to agree that Glenn has to be professional as a journalist in this case. It seems more to me that he is paid to hit on Mitt as he could easily find another candidate with actualy ties to lobbyists in both parties during their campaigns. Don't get me started with Clinton or Obama not having lobbyists as their campaign managers etc... as they indeed a few if not many. The difference is that Clinton didn't try to deny those accusations as we all know she's part of the establishment because she's been in office for so so long. While Obama, trying to be the change candidate, have stated from time to time about not having lobbyists but is also proven wrong from time to time to the ignorance of his supporters. We have to be realistic and to be able to differentiate roles of individuals in campaigns.

I hope Johnson has no ambitions to ever write for one our major papers or appear on TV, because that officially disqualifed him. You do NOT question the ruling class. Especially when they're lying. It's embarassing for them. Whose side are you on anyway?

Finally! A reporter with backbone enough to speak truth to power. Romney is a veiled evil hidden under a *"Bob" Dobbs-ian exterior and must be exposed.

*apologies to the real J.R."Bob" Dobbs.

Steven @ 41:

I have to somehow kinda of agree with what Mitt says. Ron Kauffman is a powerful man and he's the Repug chairman of Mass. So it's not awkward for him to be in Mitt's campaign as an adviser rather than a lobbyist. Furthurmore as Mitt said, true or not, he's not in their strategist meeting and not paid for by the campaign. So there's a distinction right there. I would also has to agree that Glenn has to be professional as a journalist in this case. It seems more to me that he is paid to hit on Mitt as he could easily find another candidate with actualy ties to lobbyists in both parties during their campaigns. Don't get me started with Clinton or Obama not having lobbyists as their campaign managers etc... as they indeed a few if not many. The difference is that Clinton didn't try to deny those accusations as we all know she's part of the establishment because she's been in office for so so long. While Obama, trying to be the change candidate, have stated from time to time about not having lobbyists but is also proven wrong from time to time to the ignorance of his supporters. We have to be realistic and to be able to differentiate roles of individuals in campaigns.

Romney didn't make that distinction until he was called on it. When Glen Johnson called him out, he had just said, "I don't have lobbyists that are tied to my-" and I can only assume that the next word would have been "campaign." Call me crazy, but I'm relatively sure that advisers are tied to the campaigns that they advise.

Also, it's nice to see that Romney's campaign is so willing to frame a verifiable matter of public record as "your opinion." Mittens really does look up to Georgie Boy.

LMAO - this was hilarious. It's like Pinocchio trying to say he isn't a liar, while his nose continues to grow.

The rest of the socalled liberal media needs to take a cue from the AP reporter and do the same thing.

"Don't be argumentative with the candidate."

That about sums up what is expected of the press - "just shut up and give us a microphone". Disgusting.

Mitt can't handle the trute

Who is the guy telling Glen to be “professional” towards the end of the clip?

I thought a “professional” reporters job was to ask tough questions.

That guy is Romney's press secretary Eric Fehrnstrom

I thought that Max Headroom's, er the Mittster's head was gonna explode!

Where were reporters like this for the last 7 years?

Was that Romney at the end of the clip admonishing the reporter to "...listen to my words, listen to my words..." If so, it is an interesting departure from last month when we weren't supposed to listen to his words. For example, even though he said his dad marched with MLK--he didn't really mean that his dad "marched" with MLK. Oh my, how ignorant we masses are. It goes on and on with this bafoon.

mitt is one of those slime balls that will kick you in the nuts for real when no one is
around. then when you complain, he smiles........reminds me of "THE BAD SEED". for those of you not old enough to remember, it's an old movie.

"this is your brain. this is your brain on Aqua Net. Any Questions?"

Two more questions for Romney:

--Are you accepting campaign fund from the LDS church?

--Do you promise to protect all women's access to contraception?

Another question:

--Are you going to address the dangers of overpopulations to the US and to the world? The world's population has quadrupled over the last 100 years. US population has increased significantly over the last year.

Fil @ 2:

oh boy, he just sank himself. Romney's biggest opponent is Romney

what a way to award the nomination to McCain.......

Oh good lord! This is only the latest lie in a list of many that should've sunk this phoney prick's campaign months ago!!! Americans are incredibly stupid people with short memories. All Romney has to do is quote some Scripture and bash the gays and he'll be the golden boy again among the GOP rubes! The fact that this flip flopping a-hole has made it this far should be a source of embarassment for the American political system!

Funny thing is, look at this video on Youtube of the affair and see how the Romney shills are out trying to descredit the reporter. Sad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hVj29hH2k

All that is true, but if you look at Hillary's list of lobbyists supporting her it's four times the size of Romneys:

http://www.rollcall.com/politics/kstendorsements.html

Perhaps, it's she that we should be focusing on.

That guy is Romney’s press secretary Eric Fehrnstrom

Fehrnstrom has been Romney's mouthpiece and attack dog for a lot of years, probably going back to his failed attempt to beat Ted Kennedy for US Senate. He has a history of that kind of snide behavior, and is always ready to go on the attack, even when it isn't called for.

"Don't be argumentative with the candidate."

Oh Mittens you're such a kitten.
Did you munch your litter for brunch?
Oh Mittens we're not smitten.

Romney is as dumb as a stone. And frankly so is Glen Johnson from AP. It would be far, far more acceptable to have a lobbyist running his campaign (lobbyist are, after all, essentially PR people and PR people perform the duties that they are paid to do: be it lobby, or run campaigns ... they can't do both!) than it is to have lobbyists who are unpaid (by Romney, but definitely by someone else for what that lobbyist can get out of Romney) advisors!

Holy shit! Is even the media clueless to how incredibly fucked up it is to have unpaid advisors over paid PR people working on your campaign?

Okay ... for any media people who are reading this: when you pay someone, are you beholden to them for anything? (For the media IQs of 30 or below: NO) But when you accept free stuff, including free work from someone, might you feel that you owed that person. (Come on, media people! Your IQs aren't so low as to not be able to get that one right!)

Matt @ 34:

Who is the guy telling Glen to be "professional" towards the end of the clip?

I thought a "professional" reporters job was to ask tough questions.

Exactly!!!

"Save your opinions and act professional with the candidate."??!!

WTF?!?! Did he really say that? Sorry, dude, things are too real right now to let your Guy Smiley candidate stand spew meaningless BS for free on television. This isn't a cotton candy free ride, candidates should expect to get grilled by the press. That's the press' job, as laid out by founding fathers these guys love to refer to. No other respectable democracy in the world has such a phony, softball process for the pool of candidates vying to lead the nation.

Maureen Meyer @ 72:

Another question:

--Are you going to address the dangers of overpopulations to the US and to the world? The world's population has quadrupled over the last 100 years. US population has increased significantly over the last year.

Kind of interesting of how when the economy is not doing well, that population end up exploding. We are in for another big baby boom.

oh bew hew hews, dat evil reporter mans made da mitt cry.
it might not be so easy if old mittsy wasn't such a lying sack of manure in the first place, but there you have it.
what got me laughing my head off was the entirely serious campaign wonk scolding johnson for upsetting mittsy with big boy questions.

It is obvious someoneas Romney is used to using his position and wealth to cow manure as a fragrant air freshener.

What I got a glimpse of is the thuggish campaign goons that tell you your arguementative because you ask hard questions.

Mitt has a problem admitting a lobbyist that work on his campaign and trys to deny its truth by saying the lobbyist is not a senior pubba. Just a senior advisor?

I got to say thanks to the reporter covering asking the questions and the ones that cover the event.

We need more of that.........................................!

kenned @ 15:

How long before the report is fired? I think the journalist doesn't know what his job is:-) Being a journalist for CBS, you don't criticize your corporate masters. I bet if he does that again, he will find himself not working in front of the cameras.

He works for AP, which is print. Broadcast media reporters were probably the ones admonishing him for being argumentative. They do have a point, as he should be try his best to cleverer than the interviewee. Broadcast "journalists" have killed our fourth estate. Since they must record their audio and/or video they are taught about how and told to make an entertaining show for the lowest common denominator. If you want news, pick up a newspaper.

Did I hear correctly? Did The woman at the end of the clip say "You are rude and ugly"?

How dare he tell and expect the truth! Doesn't he know that's just impolite and un'merkan and totally something the taliban would do? Did they pick up the reporter and transport him to gitmo for daring to question the lies? I mean come ON dude! It's a presidential race not a truth telling contest! Jeez!!

james in philadelphia @ 98:

Did I hear correctly? Did The woman at the end of the clip say "You are rude and ugly"?

Yes, the old bag did say that! Even Mitt's cheerleaders--decrepit and nasty as they are--are all hypocrites too! Too bad we didn't know this crone's identity, so we could send some mail letting her know who the rude and ugly one was in that video!

Max @ 32:

Love the venue!

Mitt should have used the EZ Button!

maxcat06 @ 104:

Max @ 32:

Love the venue!

Mitt should have used the EZ Button!

Damn, why didn't I think of that one? EZ Button...brilliant! :)

THAT'S the kind of reporting we need. Somebody to call bullshit when bullshit is shoveled.

I don't know about you guys, but Romney looked down right menacing! I saw it on Dan Abrams and Shuster was right. It was a legitimate question. The fact that nobody has the balls to question these candidates is a sad commentary on our so-called press.

"Act professionally... act professionally"

IOW, "STFUMF and assume your lapdog role or I'll taze your ass."

SON OF A BITCH JUST LOST MY VOTE!!!

"i wasn't stealing that money"
"but the money was in your hand"
"but i got caught so i wasn't stealing it"

FUCKING WORDS GAMES.....
-----THAT LOBBIEST WITH HIS HAND IN MY POCKET ISN'T CRAZY...HE'S JUST FEELING NUTZ"

This is the same Ron Kaufman who was arrested in 1993 for DWI after leaving a party at then Gov Bill Weld's house in Massachusetts. When asked about it, Weld said that he did see Kaufman with an "amber-colored liquid". So maybe Mitt-witt could talk a cue from Weld and say that he has seen Kaufman receive "green-colored paper" from his campaign.

I liked that guy Glen Johnson He called out BS when he heard it. You know, like a reporter should always do!

Too bad they demoted him to licking stamps, stuffing envelopes and other menial tasks where he can't possibly embarrass the corporate masters chosen ones.

What’s that? He hasn’t been demoted yet……Give it a couple of days!!

I can only presume that the reporter had finally lost his composure. He's unusual in national political reporters. Most have become so accustomed to being blatantly lied to. Most have subverted common sense to the shibboleth of "balance" and "objectivity."

AP will almost undoubtedly remove him from the Romney coverage-- if not fire him. An AP reporter is supposed to be a witness and a stenographer. If Romney were to say that "up is down" or "black is white" the job of the AP reporter is to report Romney's words accurately and swiftly.

Other reporters have more lattitude than the AP. Of course, even AP reporters can circumvent limitations. He could ask Romney pointed questions about specific lobbyists in his campaign and make Romney justify his disclaimers.

He really did choose an inappropriate way to challenge Romney-- for a reporter. I can only assume that he felt his head about to explode at Romney's blatant duplicity.

It was a beautiful thing. Romney's attempt to bully the reporter confirms everything about Mr. Perfect Hairdo's character. He has none. Thanks Glen Johnson - there is a press out there after all.

Another reason to vote for MIKE HUCKABEE!

RandeeRobyn @ 117:

Paul @ 49:

Imavehmontah @ 42:

Paul @ 21:

You need to take a closer look at the roots of the Mormon religion. Not only is lying a virtue, it was a fundamental cornerstone of the religion. Joseph Smith made up whatever he needed to sell his religion to the masses. I know, it's politically incorrect to consider Mitt's religion when evaluating him as a candidate. The problem is, you can't evaluate the man without understanding what it means to believe in the Mormon religion. I could never vote for someone who professes to be a true believer that religion now that I have read the book of Mormon and understand its totally fabricated origins. It's simply a show stopper.

Yeah, I seriously investigated the LDS from the perspective of a seeker of answers. Still have a bunch of books. I came to the same conclusions. It was impossible for me to believe that it had any divine spark of inspiration behind it. Made up out of whole clothe, its history being constantly revised in order to cover up earlier revisions. I know a lot of Mormons who are very sincere and good people, but it's more than I could swallow and still think of myself as being a basically honest person.

I'm neither Mormon nor Republican, but why is there so much hate for this one man? Do you not know that the minority leader Democrat Harry Reid is also LDS? The church is as credible as any other - Jew, Catholic, Baptist, and Islam... Here we are teaching our children to accept Muslims and others diverting from the mainstream faith when we ourselves are persecuting a man on these very same grounds. I'm offended by this - not to mention it has no logical grounds. When we go around screaming "You're religion is wrong!" "No yours is!" then we get nothing done. There is no scientific way to prove God true, Allah true, Jehovah or Buddha true; therefore, there is no way to prove them false either. Believe what you want, but leave faith out of politics; otherwise, it will ruin our country with non-intelligent screaming matches. We have enough of that already. Beside that, look up the persecution of the Mormon church; stories of it fill countless books - including the murder of Joseph Smith himself. Congratulations, we can now add this blog to the list. If you have a problem with this man base it on him (his actions, the way he interacts with others) not on his faith.

As for this incident, call-me-crazy but I don't think Gov. Romney once contradicted himself or lied. An advisor by definition of the word advises. A campaign director directs. If Glen Johnson is trying to prove otherwise he needs to set out evidence not just accusations. I'm sorry to say, it is this type of behavior that gets us branded "left-wing nuts" because we rally behind a guy (a reporter) who is citing no evidence to the contrary that an advisor advises and a director directs. In this situation Johnson was unprofessional. He acted like a little child interrupting an answer from Romney before he was done speaking. A professional way to handle it would be to wait till Romney finished his interview, and then ask "is not so-and-so a Washington lobbyist?" and wait for his reply. This unfortunately calls into question Mr. Johnson's credibility, and probably - ultimately his job because he could not wait for Romney to finish what he was saying. It's unfortunate. Imagine if someone was to act this way towards Clinton or Obama. We'd be screaming "unprofessional!" Romney did however bite, and that may hurt him. No one wants to see a presidential hopeful engaging an unprofessional reporter.

Oh well... it's too bad we've become an unprofessional and persecuting country... I was really hoping to leave my daughter more when I left the world.</blockquot

I don't see this as an example of religious intolerance. I see this as a well justified means to understand and judge suitability to make decisions in the name of the the United States and its citizens based on what belief in a given religious creed implies. I will defend Mitt's right to believe in Mormon to the end. I just won't support electing him President because of it. Two very different things. If I told you I am a passionate believer in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, would you vote for me for President? What about Kucinich and his belief that he saw a UFO?

I think this should go down as the legacy of George W. Bush, besides Iraq. The idea that the media can and would be manipulated and controlled by the politicians. Going against everything the First Amendment stands for with freedom of the press.