One Lie Too Many

shorter AMC:
Us "journalists" realized that Romney's resurgence was a threat to St. John, so we're going after him...

I mean, all this time, literally everyone on the GOP side has been saying that more fat cat tax cuts will stimulate the economy --- yet none of the candidates ever gets challenged on that.

So the reporters come up with a "gotcha" question for Romney -- and he demurs appropriately (presidential candidates should not be going around declaring which stocks to buy). And now AMC is calling him a "liar".

Actually, I thought the most interesting thing in the video was the press secretary telling Johnson to "be professional" and not say that the candidate is lying. The notion that it's "unprofessional" to point out that a candidate is lying speaks volumes about the way in which the media/candidate interface operates.

And, Ana, is the straight talk express still shut down? Has McCain continued to refuse to provide the open access that has had the press so enthralled up to now?

Someday maybe a journalist will ask a question as inspiring as one tenet of Mitt Romney's platform.

Interesting post. Thanks for the behind-the-scenes peek.

It's true that McCain lies just as much-- goals of the surge, impact of tax cuts-- but the media has a crush on him. Strange. I guess it's all about access.

I'm unable to watch video, so I'll have to pass. I will note that I find it exremely refreshing that you people are willing to actually use the word "lie" properly. For a while there (7 years) , I thought it had become taboo.

Willard is sooo like not cool but like John is the dreamiest.
He even lets us sit with him on the back of the bus!
I would like die if he gave me a nickname like W does!

I was interested in the fact that Romney fell back on the "listen to my words" defense. Sure, lobbyists aren't literally "running his campaign." But who cares? He said something plainly misleading. (And I think he started to say something more broad before he was interrupted.)

Over at Jay Rosen's blog, people were discussing the Bush administration's misleading use of language. At some point, these language games get very insidious--especially when they are used to demagogue a country into war.

Romney's infraction doesn't rise to that level, but people ought to say "enough is enough" at some point.

Fellow traveler Jill Zuckman has more on the veracity of Romney's claim that lobbyists don't run his campaign.

Exactly. They don't run his campaign. Romney didn't literally lie (if you say he did, his people are going to call you "unprofessional"). But how many people actually hear that sound byte and think, "Well, just because they don't run his campaign doesn't mean lobbyists don't have a massive impact on his candidacy"?

Almost nobody.

It's similar to how people who hear "British intelligence tells us that Iraq tried to seek uranium from Africa" aren't going to think "well, just because our intelligence community debunked that claim numerous times, doesn't mean that British intelligence hasn't shared with us that claim, and that our intelligence hasn't had time to vet the British material yet." So yes, it's true, "British intelligence tells us that Iraq tried to seek uranium from Africa." But it's misleading, of course. And there were about 6 statements in the same speech that were similarly misleading.

This stuff can get so complicated that it takes a Phd in rhetoric like Marcy Wheeler to figure it out.

I don't have lobbyists running my campaign. I don't have lobbyists tied to my....

what was the next thing he was going to say? If the reporter had waited just one more moment he could have done more damage to Romney.

Romney's complete disingeniousness

I don't know about that. If it got him elected, i'd say it's pretty ingenious.

I thought the video quite interesting, and was suprised to see Romney actually come back on his own and restart the arguement. But what I found most telling was his manager telling the reporter not to bother the "candidate." Not the governor. The way he kept saying candidate sounded so much like "product" - Don't bother the product, be more respectful to the product. The way his aide "helped" him made him seem even more artificial than ever. I actually liked him showing some real personality there, regardless of the legitimancy of his vs the reporter's position. But the aides had to stamp that out - it didn't fit in with the established product.

These are small points about a small, but interesting story. It's telling that in Jill Zuckman's article there's no mention of the fact that Glen Johnson interrupted Romney mid-sentence in the middle of a speech, yet she takes the time to note that Romney "angrily" responded. If I was in the middle of making a speech and someone interrupted me, I'd be mildly angry too.

I understand Romney's blowing-in-the-wind beliefs, location-pandering speeches, and persistent half-truths - combined with limited press access - must be grating for the press corps, but interrupting someone is still unprofessional.

mediasux: The question was a valid one and had little to do with specific stock purchases. Instead, it was an attempt to prod Romney into providing specifics on how as President his business background would help Michigan's auto industry, a point that has been the cornerstone of his Michigan campaign.

Mitt Romney sounded like he was going to lie.
If Glen Johnson hadn't gone all Tim Russert to play gotcha, he might very well have, well, gotten him.

Also, John McCain doesn't lie. It's reality that's wrong.

I'm late to this game, but whatever. Media reformists (myself included) are always calling for reporters to call lying candidates out on their lies. And then call them lies.

Good on you all, Cox. Do more of it. Not just the Mittster, but all of them.

I'm astonished at the confusion about whether these kerfluffles are a good thing. OF COURSE they're a good thing. I think people are so surprised that they don't know what to think. just keep doing more of that,

I hope you've read Ezra Klein and Digby's take on this admission:

"I'm no fan of Romney, but I'm really not a fan of these unelected scribblers putting their ham fists into politics for their own amusement and affecting the race with their own petty prejudices and knee jerk assumptions while presenting themselves to the mass of Americans as unbiased and objective.

"If they hate Romney so much that they can't be objective then they should admit it publicly or stop covering him. Manipulating and slanting the coverage, especially for their own amusement, is journalistic malpractice. This has been going on for a couple of decades as least and it's not getting any better."

I'm about as far from a fan of Romney's as you can get. Nevertheless, enough. It's not about you or who gives you "access to the actual candidate," and how that pisses you off. Please get your head out of your own asses and just cover the campaign.

That's not what she is saying at all. She is saying that they are all noticing Romney's big lies and they decided that someone needs to call him on it. That's what we all want, EKlein and Digby included.

I support that. Good on Cox and the AP guy and the whole group of them. There needs to be more of that.

McCain gives big-time access so no one catches his big lies, or has too much fun on the bus to say anything. Surely you don't think that's preferable?

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