Romney's "Gaffe"? Asbury Park Press Quotes Gonzalez and Iurelli
Friday, September 21, 2012 at 11:42AM Friday, September 21, 2012—BTPG Founder Barbara Gonzalez and member Pat Iurelli are quoted in Romney Videotape: In the Modern World, no candidate's speech is truly private, published yesterday in the Asbury Park Press. (Paywall with limited free viewings.)
Buried at the end of the article is this spin:
Bayshore Tea Party Group founder Barbara Gonzalez did not condone Romney’s remarks, but said they are rooted in fact and reflect the vision of the Republican ticket, to shrink government and wean the nation off its support.
Gonzalez continues:
“The Middle East is fighting, the world is burning and now the media is saying, ‘Romney, Romney, Romney,’ ” Gonzalez said. “It’s another distraction.”
The article does not explain why one would need to "condone" or apologize for the telling of a well-known and important truth. It's another distraction.
The article splits Pat Iurelli's statement across a page break:
Pat Iurilli, a 55-year-old Republican resident of Highland Park, in Middlesex County, agreed. He pointed to Obama’s remarks at a news conference just a few months ago when he said, “The private sector is doing fine,” which led to complaints Obama is out of touch about weak job growth. The press didn’t hound him the same way it has hounded Romney, Iurilli said.
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“It just shows, I think, that they’re not giving equal scrutiny,” Iurilli said.
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The paper quotes the director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University:
It is important to note that voter memories are short, Redlawsk said, and though Romney’s campaign is viewed by Democrats as foundering, there could be something to give the Romney campaign momentum.
Mr. Redlawski knows or surely should know, that the public's memories of fact are very short, but its memories of impressions are long indeed. That's why the media "spins the narrative": if they can convince you now, when you're not really paying attention, that something bad happened, you'll remember that in the future, even if you've seen facts to the contrary. It's only if you are in the habit of analysis that you'll get the facts right in the beginning, or correct your impression later. And most of us cannot maintain the habit of analysis. We have to live in the here and now. We have to stop at the stop sign, and check off our grocery lists, and balance our checkbooks. And so we can be misled by those whom we trust for our news.
Reader Comments (1)
It is a simple truth, what Romney said (albeit inelegantly) was in fact quite accurate. Fully 47% of the eligible American people earning an income do not pay any Federal Income Taxes. If we truly want to hype this paying one's fair share, that would require everyone to have "skin in the game" and pay at least something towards paying down this massive and excessive ballooning national debt. I defy anyone to argue that point. Everyone participating is what makes us a great country. Having some carry the rest is just stupid and self destructive! Asking the productive part of the population to carry the rest is not just unintelligent but it also puts us on that path self-destruction. Look what happened to Communism (even with all of its coercian and iron clad control by the central committee and its secret police. It didn't work then and it won't work now. The same goes for the bogus European socialism. The old Communist/Socialist/Anarchist coalition are the only one's still likely to subscribe to this insanity known as progressivism and its loopy, unfair tax schemes. Those who subscribe to this idiocy are truly the over-degreed, under educated, lazy and greedy. My question to each person that thinks that 47% not paying any federal income taxes is good, to which of the previously mentioned categories do identify yourselves in?