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Aviation Pro

(12,164 posts)
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:39 AM May 2012

So apparently Lurch the Fucking Stiff's handlers....

...don't want the fucking walking asswipe to be within sniffing distance of reporters and have banned the press from the rope line fearing, fearing I tell you, "an unscripted moment."

Didn't we just fucking say good fucking riddance to an imperial Presidency, oh, I don't know, about four fucking years ago.

Tell you what boy fucking blunder, take your 230,000,000 and go pound it up your royal ass.

You are an heir to Two Shoes McClown, Shooter and the Wasilla Fuckwit, go fuck yourself and the fucking car elevator you rode in on, shitstain.

Romney Camp Tries to Limit Reporters’ Access, and Rope Line Ruckus Erupts

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/politics/romney-camp-tries-to-limit-reporters-access-and-rope-line-ruckus-erupts.html?_r=1&hpw&pagewanted=print

By MICHAEL BARBARO and ASHLEY PARKER

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Romney campaign is known for its hyper-disciplined approach to the news media. Question-and-answer sessions with reporters are rare. Aides avoid on-the-record briefings. And the candidate’s latest outreach to voters, a series of casual meetings with middle-class Americans, is shielded from public view.

But on Wednesday, the campaign took that curtain-drawing restrictiveness to a new level, leading to a brief kerfuffle with reporters and later, an apologetic clarification.

After Mitt Romney’s speech here, campaign aides told members of the traveling press corps that they could not approach either the audience or the rope line where Mr. Romney shakes voters’ hands and casually speaks with them.

Access to such interactions has long been a zealously protected staple of presidential campaign reporting that allows reporters to capture unscripted moments and pose questions to candidates (who typically ignore or pretend not to hear them).

Mr. Romney, however, has at times proven a chatty and news-making figure on the rope lines, to his aides’ frustration. It was there, for example, that Mr. Romney told reporters that “even Jimmy Carter would have given that order” to kill Osama bin Laden. And it was where he reacted to Rush Limbaugh’s comments that a Georgetown University student was a “slut,” saying that he would have chosen different language, but declining to condemn it.

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So apparently Lurch the Fucking Stiff's handlers.... (Original Post) Aviation Pro May 2012 OP
Willard can't win the election just by getting pitched softballs from Faux news Major Nikon May 2012 #1
Awesome Rant AC_Mem May 2012 #2
Hilarious! Lugnut May 2012 #3
They're trying to avoid him being Palinized. pacalo May 2012 #4
perhaps Lurch the Fucking Stiff's handlers don't want him running into someone like you renate May 2012 #5
Just think I get up at this hour cause I went to bed to damn early madokie May 2012 #6
k&r !! nt steve2470 May 2012 #7
I wouldn't be surprised Politicalboi May 2012 #8
He could be a slightly ambulatory potato, for all they care. Buns_of_Fire May 2012 #9
Excellent descriptive nick-name. Mc Mike May 2012 #10
I fucking agree lunatica May 2012 #11

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
1. Willard can't win the election just by getting pitched softballs from Faux news
Thu May 17, 2012, 12:51 AM
May 2012

In the general election he's going to have to deal with the main stream media and they are going to lambaste him.

Lugnut

(9,791 posts)
3. Hilarious!
Thu May 17, 2012, 01:58 AM
May 2012

Lurch the Fucking Stiff?

Mittens is in over his head. This campaign will be interesting to watch.

renate

(13,776 posts)
5. perhaps Lurch the Fucking Stiff's handlers don't want him running into someone like you
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:23 AM
May 2012

And people like you are EVERYWHERE!

(though they are perhaps not quite as intimately in touch with your feelings about him as you are )

madokie

(51,076 posts)
6. Just think I get up at this hour cause I went to bed to damn early
Thu May 17, 2012, 04:00 AM
May 2012

last night and this is the first thing I read. Lurch the fucking stiff is spot on as is your take on this whole shitstain of a candidate as you so apply put it.
What a joy to read, you've made my day and its still early on, thanks

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
8. I wouldn't be surprised
Thu May 17, 2012, 05:18 AM
May 2012

If he doesn't appear on the debates. The Repukes are making less press their goal. No Gotcha questions like, what do you read. And the Repukes won't mind. They think the media made a fool of Palin when they can't see she's a dipshit to begin with. The Reukes don't really want to see Rmoney. They are just willing to close their eyes and vote for him, as long as he has an R behind his name. "You Rang"

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
9. He could be a slightly ambulatory potato, for all they care.
Thu May 17, 2012, 06:10 AM
May 2012

Grover the Fuzzy and others have already said that all they really need in the WH is a more-or-less warm body who'll sign whatever nutjob legislation they can ram through.

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