Romney On Perceived Overseas Gaffes: Media Want To Distract From Obama's Record

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Tuesday morning, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed the criticism he's received for several alleged gaffes during his trips to London and Israel, blaming the media for what he believes is its insistence on diverting attention from real issues.

Before Romney left Poland this morning, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron asked the former governor about his perceived missteps. Romney accused reporters of overlooking the substance of his international trip and instead trying to distract from what he sees as President Barack Obama's poor handling of the economy.

'I realize that there will be some in the Fourth Estate, or whichever estate, who are far more interested in finding something to write about that is unrelated to the economy, to geopolitics, to the threat of war, to the reality of conflict in Afghanistan today, to a nuclearization of Iran,' Romney said. 'They'll instead try and find anything else to divert from the fact that these last four years have been tough years for our country.'

Romney had recently taken heat for comments many perceived as gaffes ' while visiting London, he criticized the city's handling of the Olympics; and while in Israel, he made a controversial remark blaming Palestine's lack of economic success on cultural differences with Israel.

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• Blame the media'Good one, Mitt. Give any freakin' press access at all and you wouldn't have these problems. At least old man McCain understood the game he was in. Romney seems essentially clueless.

• Thats all in Willard's bag of tricks. Blame the media. Romney is utterly clueless and last I checked, it was the British press that had more of a problem with the criticism of the Olympics, than the American press corp.

• So Willard wanted to have a fancy international tour, but didn't want press coverage?  If he wasn't shitting the bed at every single stop, wouldn't he be complaining if he wasn't getting enough press?

• I've never heard that before,' blame the media when you fall short!

• You're right Mitt!  I dare anyone here to show me 3 times he's stuck his foot in his mouth on this trip!  Go ahead!  Show me any gaffes in London or Israel, or Poland.  I can't think of any?  HA HA HA HA!

• Willard, release your tax returns !!!

• Can any liberal describe to me in less than a paragraph any of his gaffes?  What 'gaffe' did Romney make on this trip?

• HMMMM. Well Mittens I have an idea for you, go try another network other than FAUX News.

• Whine on, Willard.

  You've got FOX teabagging you 24/7, and you blame your problems on the media.

•  I find it funny that the media can put out a 5 minute segment on Romney's supposed 'gaffe' by stating a fact in London but can't afford 30 seconds to the news that consumer confidence is down to the levels it was in January

• Obama's record with Poland: ( Actual gaffes)

  'Obama's record of Polish political gaffes' 

  'May 2012: Obama refers to 'Polish Death Camps' 

  'March 2012: President Obama's 'hot mic' promise to Russia' 

  'May 2011: President Obama's token visit to Poland'

   'April 2010: President Obama goes golfing during presidential funeral' 

  'September 2009: Obama announces plans to scrap the missile defense program in Europe'

  'February 2009:  Biden says White House is ready to 'press the reset button' with Russia'

  'November 2008: Obama contradicts Polish President on missile defense'

  http://washingtonexaminer.com/...

• Is that snark?  You're kidding right?

• Willard McDole went to 10 Downing Street and took a huge dump on the British people.

  Fresh after eating some hot sauce 

• Was this post about Obama?  I think my reading comprehension skills may be out of wack?
  By the way, the missle defense was not scrapped.  It's been moved from land to sea!

• Willard is a COMPLETE IDIOT !

• The Obama Press Corpse ignores Romney's magnificent speech in Israel to feature Palestinian propaganda and lies:

  'How AP, NPR Lied About Romney 'Jewish Donors' Speech, Using Palestinian Propaganda'

  'Romney made no claim about the 'cultural superiority' of Jews over Arabs, as Erekat claims'and as the AP and NPR report dutifully, recycling a false meme of Jewish self-regard that is common in both anti-Israel propaganda and antisemitic literature.

   Instead, Romney praised Israel's entrepreneurial culture'which is striking precisely because it runs counter to the socialist politics many Jews brought with them to their new state.

  The AP and NPR have disgraced themselves in twisting Romney's words to provide fodder for his critics.'

  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/07/30/How-the-AP-and-NPR-Lied-About-Romney-Jewish-Donors-Speech-Using-Palestinian-Propaganda

•  The most dangerous was MI6. There were others, as you well know.

• Type faster. Your guy is pissing it away.

• Yeah, blame the media and Obama for your failures. 

• Magnificent? lol, this is embarrassing. It's like you are paid to say these things, but it's so twisted that even a paid staff will find it hard to continue with this horrid job. 

•  You are just jealous of Romney's success.

• I think it is time to start talking about 2016. What Republican is entitled to the nomination then? Gingrich?

• The point of Willard's whole trip was to draw attention to himself and showcase his foreign policy cred. Don't whine because the media followed him down the rat hole he dug for himself.

  Keep crying, breitard.

• Curious'  How come the MSM doesn't care about the unemployment rate, unsustainable debt, looming tax increases, and the economy on the brink of another recession?

• My favorite was when he gushed about Israel's socialist government run health insurance.

• Christie.

• The irony was sweet.

  Somewhat related, I enjoyed the opening ceremony of the the Olympics, the tribute to GOSH and NHS. All of the Republicans kept telling us how people in various single payer nations clamored to get out of the system. Yet, the Brits did this homage.

•  Because, it's all part of a wide-ranging conspiracy, Tina.

• Oh, I don't know.  I am kind of partial to his bigoted comments that Palestinian Arabs have a culture completely directed to utter failure.

• Did he have a chance to check on those tax shelters while he was away or too busy making a gd fool of himself? STFU and cough up those tax returns Thurston.

• You replied to the wrong post because my name is not Tina nor am I female.

• Thought the fact that Romney couldnt remember the Labour Leader's name was completely comical. He called Ed Miliband'.'Dear Leader'

• This time the Republicans may jettison the extreme and go with the other Mormon.

  I cannot possibly imagine Huntsmann having shit all over himself going from the UK to Israel to Poland.

• Well the wet magic under garment that is Romney, whenever he explodes, he runs to daddy, Fox for a bail out.

  If the media has any respect, they would not chase Romney around until he seeks for them to be interviewed.  Fox has done a wickedly destruction of the news media.  Fox at the most once a week gets about 3.35M by O'Reilly.  There are 313M people in USA.  MSM there are more of you and less of Fox.  Stop modeling your business like Fox.  

  Stop the insanity.

• Because the numbers don't clearly foretell of another recession right now.  Obama will have an ad campaign to convince the American people that treasonous Republicans in the House and Senate purposely kept them from getting jobs in order to put party before patriotism.

  The voters already know that their tax increases are coming because Republicans are holding them hostage as a favor to the rich.  This is not something the Republicans really want to take into November.

  By the way, when Obama gets his 2nd term, he will demand that the GOP, assuming they still hold the House, give a 3-year extension of the now-Obama tax cuts to those making < $250K.  Only then will Obama talk tax reform to eliminate loopholes and reductions in budget spending, and probably on a $1 tax increase for $1 spending cut basis.

• You would think so, based on press coverage, but it's wide open for 2016 for both parties. 

  Romney had the money and the organization against a bunch of clowns and still had to struggle to win because republicans just don't like him. The next nominee (after Romney loses) will have to have the entire package: money, organization, grassroots /tea party appeal, and Republican establishment backing. That's a tall order.

• This?
  http://www.cnbc.com/id/48417194

• One wonders what Romney thought while he sat there watching that, in attendance with his wife Anne. Probably 'Oh sh-t!'

• Sorry. I'm sure you can understand my confusion.

  Because, it's all part of a wide-ranging conspiracy, Charlton Heston's Ghost.

• The party may be changing, it certainly seems to be on the verge of a great change in Texas, today, but the SOP, the modus operandi, has always been to nominate someone who has sought the office before and lost. Nixon. Raygun. Poppy. Dole. McCain. To be sure, W was an exception, but if the party holds to its time-honored tradition, aren't we left with Bachman, Cain, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Toll Booth, Santorum, arguably Huntsmann? If we limit the field to serious candidates, that would mean Gingrich, Huntsmann, Pawlenty, Santorum; serious + likely to get the nomination, Pawlenty, Santorum; serious + likely to get the nomination + electable, Pawlenty.

  You may well be right. The matrix may have changed.

•  It worked for Gingrich, at least temporarily'VERY temporarily.