tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post977895325808598338..comments2024-01-20T02:06:45.388-08:00Comments on The Political Omnivore: The Romney StatementUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-25087616691305101702012-09-14T06:43:30.912-07:002012-09-14T06:43:30.912-07:00Yeah--that's true. Clearly Medved didn't t...Yeah--that's true. Clearly Medved didn't think this through and I should've checked that before quoting him. ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-22163931279359094772012-09-13T19:01:18.698-07:002012-09-13T19:01:18.698-07:00"As the Romney response was written before an..."As the Romney response was written before anyone died, his comments were not "piling on the dead" but were rather interpreted that way when, in fact, it turned out that people (in Libya) had been killed."<br /><br /> <br /><br />Untrue. Romney's statement reads:<br /><br /> <br /><br />"I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."<br /><br /> <br /><br />An American had already died, and Mitt took the opportunity to stab the president in the back with a divisive lie premised on racial dog-whistles (the president's a muslim, he's "other", he pals around with terrorists, he sympathizes with the muslim brotherhood, he attended a madrassa, etc.)<br /><br /> <br /><br />That's what has got the media up in arms about this statement. It's everything that's wrong about the romney campaign distilled into once statement. It's<br /><br />A) an obvious lie that contradicts a factual timeline (the embassy's empathetic tweet is from hours before the attack)<br /><br />B) filled with coded racial language designed to make the president appear muslim<br /><br />C) crass and unapologetic and<br /><br />D) displays extremely poor taste and timing from a human and political point of view<br /><br /> <br /><br />This is the Mitt Romney-est statement that's ever been issued. It's literally his entire campaign distilled onto one paper. It's so malicious and raw and Romneyish the media can't look away.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15069372307712166458noreply@blogger.com