Associated Press
The Romney campaign, this week:
Senior Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie said the campaign has a "no whining rule" when it comes to media coverage of the presidential race.
"We have a 'no whining' rule in Boston about coverage in the media," Gillespie told "Fox and Friends" on Wednesday.
The Romney campaign, last week:
As Mitt Romney finishes his second week of dismal news coverage -- with slipping polls and a combustible international crisis driving the narrative that the campaign is flailing -- the campaign's frustration with the media that covers it is approaching the boiling point.
Despite the usual sparring between press and campaign -- and the occasional piece of red meat tossed to the conservative blogosphere -- Romney and his senior aides had generally avoided the common Republican complaint that the mainstream media is fundamentally biased in favor of the Democratic Party. That has begun to change, however, with top aides now privately grumbling that they have given up the hope of a level media playing field.
Hunter found a whole lot of other examples of Romney and his aides ignoring the "rule" Gillespie referenced.
In general, it would probably be preferable if Gillespie were right -- the more Team Romney complains about press coverage, the more it sounds like they're looking for an excuse -- but to say that the campaign doesn't whine about the media is belied by the facts.
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OMG! Republicans lying about lying! Where will it ever end?
In other news, sun continues to rise in the east.
Another quote that applies to attempts to rationally discuss the great issues of the day with 2012 Republican party members:
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
- Thomas Paine
Also...
Epistemic closure is a recently defined philosophical term that describes someone who is so thoroughly encased in the echo chamber of their own ideology that they are completely immune to considering other viewpoints. The term is derived from the Greek word pistis which means faith or trust. When people live in epistemic closure, they are immune to integrity because they only trust people who already agree with their ideology.
I looked up the term when I came across it in a post right here on maddowblog.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/25/14094036-epistemic-closure-and-poll-denialism
Thanks, Jolene73, but I think Eric Hoffer covered that long ago in his book The True Believer. Ideological Zealot, Extremist, Jihadist and Teahadist are more commonly used words for the same idea. In fairness, however, the notion that "they are immune to integrity" is intriguing.
So Mendacious Mitt becomes Mendacious Milquetoast Mitt.
In November, he'll just be Toast.
GOTP bullying rules:
1) Whine loudly when things aren't going your way.
2) Blame the librul media and refer back to rule 1.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaaaaa......LOL
Nah, it's the Kenyans fault.
The idea that the media is liberally biased came out of the Watergate era, when the media kept uncovering one instance of Nixon-Republican malfeasance after another. Caught in the avalanche of indictments, disbarments, and imprisonments, the meme that it was all the biased media's fault was the only way these sanctimonious crooks could avoid facing their own hypocrisy, if not jail. What made these disclosures particularly newsworthy was that they involved people who claimed to represent the silent/moral majority, a colorless mass defined by their conventionality, conformity, and obedience. The notion was kept alive because, when a Democrat was exposed, society (rather than the media) saw him or her as a crook, whereas, when a Republican was exposed, society saw him or her as a crook and a hypocrite. The difference was in society's reaction, rather than the media's biased exposure.
Following Joseph Goebbels' tenets, they repeated the big lie often enough and long enough (having an ongoing need to do so) that it came to be accepted as truth.
The amazing thing is that they lie to THEMSELVES (remember, all the national polls are skewed Democratic). How can they get anything done when they cannot trust what they say to each other?
Romney has nobody but himself to blame for the predicament he's in. It's been HIS choice to lie constantly throughout the campaign. HE'S the one who has decided to virtually ignore every media outlet except Fox News and some conservative radio talkers. HE made the choice to ignore precedent and keep his tax information hidden. The words on that "47%" tape are coming out of HIS mouth.
It is his choices that have brought the campaign to the current point. So quit whining, Willard.
Reading and replying to this blog for the last many months, there was a general dissatisfaction with the MSM for not confronting the lies from the right. When fair and balanced favored Mitt, the GOP only had to avoid a few media outlets so had little to complain about. When the lies and disdain for the people became indefensible. even by a lot of the right. it was again time to try to blame the liberal media. So go ahead and whine all the way to obscurity like the small people your are. Sure it's hard Ann. The real world for real people is hard. No one will really care if you cry into your caviar.
The Romney campaign treats reporters so terrible it's amazing they get anything but snarky sarcasm. They rely on the professionalism of the journalists, who are always on good behavior because they get accused of bias.
Republicans have been whining about the media since Nixon. It is another tired excuse for an inept campaign. Conservatives have been attacking Romney's campaign. Is Romney's staff going to whine about them?
If they stopped whining about the media, all they'd have left is making up crap about Obama.
Rachel Maddow has to be the stupidest bitch on TV! Weasel little @!$%# spends her entire broadcast bashing Romney, any comments about that lying piece of @!$%# in the WHITE HOUSE. They lied thru their @!$%#ing teeth about the Bengazi TERRORIST attack and not a word from the stupid bitch!
True, Romney is whiney. But Obama deserves an Oscar in his role as victim.
Republicanism has long been defined by 'wishful reality'. Back in the '80s it was shown that the military fared better under Democrats but the Republicans are supposed to be the party of strength. The party of 'fiscal responsibility' has never balanced a budget in a century starting with a 2 and is responsible for the vast majority of the current national debt. Indeed, they own all the records for debt increases. "The Moral Majority is Neither" was a popular bumper sticker in the '90s for a reason. Conservative gay-bashing lawmaker/preacher caught with boy-toy is practically a meme now. Just as with prostitute/sexual harrassment scandals in the 1980s. The Republican Party is the party of psychological projection and wishful thinking and it's sad to see it as the road that Jerry Falwell and Newt Gingrich led them down. A responsible, loyal opposition is necessary to the proper functioning of a democracy.
Shorter Miracle: The Republican Party seems to think that if they say it loud enough, long enough, it will become true.
Romney et al has a whole network dedicated to promoting their every lie, flubbed fact and misstatement (called FOX). Why should they whine?
Ed Gillespie refers to a "no whining rule"? Sounds like he has a problem with pronunciation. Obviously, he meant to say the campaign has a "no winning rule".
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