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Topic: AP Picks Most Unflattering
Romney-With-Kids Shot
They Can Find? |
AP Picks Most Unflattering
Romney-With-Kids Shot
They Can Find?
Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By:JoniTx, 10/9/2012 8:00:54 AM
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| Emily Friedman of ABC News reported Monday that “Mitt Romney ordered his motorcade to make an abrupt U-turn in rural Virginia today, after zipping by a group of elementary school students waving in the front yard of the school, so he could go back and meet them.” ABC's video shows thrilled grade-schoolers in Fairfield, Virginia. But no nice move goes unpunished by the press. Check out the AP picture distributed across the country. It's unbelievable. It honestly looks like a little girl is gaping at Romney from behind. This accompanied a snippy AP story by Lynn Elber
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
tren9, 10/9/2012 8:10:56 AM (No. 8919711)
I remember when, as a kid, I helped line the streets to wave and cheer as Ike went thru our town. Kids do remember this stuff.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 10/9/2012 8:20:21 AM (No. 8919737)
Well it l,ooks like Romney has lost the under 18 vote
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Frank Dunn, 10/9/2012 8:29:29 AM (No. 8919768)
I beg your pardon! AP and Lynn Elber tried to find a more unflattering photo of Mitt surrounded by adoring elementary students. But with a 5 0'pm deadline to submit her daily hit piece, this was the best that she could do. Lynn promises to find an even more unpresidential photo today, even if she has to stage it herself. Remember, it was the AP's senior White House reporter who agreed to Valerie Jarrett's request that the first question Obama would get after a 4 month lapse in press conferences would be about an poorly worded answer Todd Akin gave to a local MO TV interviewer. This is why Obama selected him, above all others, for the first question. Regards, Asinine Press
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Scrubber, 10/9/2012 8:38:24 AM (No. 8919792)
Sorry Ms Ellerbee, the kids do not participate on the democratic process. They only pretend to be. Unless you can vote, and/or work for a campaign, you are just a bystander with no say whatsoever.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Architect, 10/9/2012 8:38:58 AM (No. 8919795)
If I were Romney, I would not answer questions from the openly hostile press. I don't just mean those who might disagree with his policies, I mean those who go out of their way to try to steer him in a negative direction. Kind of like the treatment that Bush gave to Helen Thomas. She kept her undeserved seat up front in the Press Room, but W just ignored her.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/9/2012 8:47:09 AM (No. 8919817)
We expect nothing less from the 'esteemed' fourth estate.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Shadowcat, 10/9/2012 8:53:33 AM (No. 8919830)
It's OK, she'll have lotsa' chances to take President Romney's picture in the next four years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Keekng, 10/9/2012 8:55:48 AM (No. 8919833)
Once again, the AP shows its level of intelligence.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
nimby, 10/9/2012 9:02:57 AM (No. 8919854)
IsLynn in the running for Andrea Mitchell's job?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/9/2012 9:06:08 AM (No. 8919866)
Juveniles.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Garage Logician, 10/9/2012 9:27:00 AM (No. 8919923)
AP is really the scum of the earth.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 10/9/2012 9:35:28 AM (No. 8919951)
Get use to it. The Media will be doing this for the next eight years. Romney Derangement Syndrome will be widespread and unremitting just like it did Bush.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 10/9/2012 9:51:21 AM (No. 8919997)
Has Ape Pee just taken it upon itself to proclaim the little girl to be a public figure? What’s next from these media slime?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/9/2012 10:01:08 AM (No. 8920033)
The article mentions the executive producer and host Linda Ellerbee criticizing Romney for not joining in. Now that's a surprise. Not.
Will she have the children ready to sing for his High-ness?...
''Barack Hussein Obama
mmmm mmmm mmmm''
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 10/9/2012 10:03:25 AM (No. 8920042)
This borders on prurient. The girls parents should sue.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pomom, 10/9/2012 10:15:08 AM (No. 8920082)
Most of Americans didn't see that photo. The ones that did have forgotten it. What they remember now is the image of him lifting his own grandaughter in a hug after his beautiful family joined him on stage after the debate the other night.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas, 10/9/2012 11:56:46 AM (No. 8920418)
Re:12 and others. They are driven, besides their own socialist insanity, by the desire to please their master so that he may grant them access. Let's hope President Romney knows how crack the whip on these jackals and does so. President Bush failed to and because he failed to they had 8 years to grow into the uncontrollable monsters we see today. Spare the rod, spoil the msm.
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