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bigtree

(85,986 posts)
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:27 PM Apr 2012

Romney Whining About Us Talking About His Zipper and Lunch


REUTERS/Larry Downing

"In just the few years since my last campaign, the changes in your industry are striking. Then, I looked to Drudge or FOX or CNN online to see what stories were developing. Hours after a speech, it was being dissected on the Internet. Now, it’s Twitter, and instantaneous reaction. In 2008, the coverage was about what I said in my speech. These days, it’s about what brand of jeans I am wearing and what I ate for lunch," he said in a speech at the American Society of News Editors and Newspaper Association of America Luncheon in Washington, D.C. Thursday.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/324067/20120404/mitt-romney-lectures-new-media-bloggers-miss.htm

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Romney Whining About Us Talking About His Zipper and Lunch (Original Post) bigtree Apr 2012 OP
Let's see what ProSense Apr 2012 #1
Maybe he ought to say something significant Owlet Apr 2012 #2
Oh dear...someone is inside that podium!!! I just saw it move! Rex Apr 2012 #3
first wendylaroux Apr 2012 #4

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
1. Let's see what
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:32 PM
Apr 2012

a Romney surrogate is talking about:

Top Romney Surrogate Donald Trump Offers To Expose His ‘Very Very’ Impressive Genitals
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/04/04/457989/top-romney-surrogate-donald-trump-offers-to-expose-his-very-very-impressive-genitals/

Between Ann Romney's "unzip" comment, the Etch-A-Sketch admission and Romney's own foot-in-mouth disease, he has no room to whine.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
3. Oh dear...someone is inside that podium!!! I just saw it move!
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 02:48 PM
Apr 2012

Did I hear a zipper just unzip? What is with that look on Mittens face?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy

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