A tale of two Myths

[ProSense]

BRIAN WILLIAMS:
I haven't had the chance to sit down and have-- a conversation with you except for the presidential debates. I wanna read this for the-- this happened on-- Meet the Press on NBC. This is David Brooks, op-ed columnist, New York Times. And I wanna get your reaction to this quote: "What's relevant is who the guy is," speaking of Governor Romney.

"He has an amazing personal story. His family was really an exodus story going across the West, poverty, building an empire. He can't talk about it because it involves Mormonism. He is personally a decent guy. For some reason, he's not willing to talk about it. He's a hidden man." Are you a hidden man?

http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=11663&NewsAreaId=2

Yeah, but Mitt is not his father or grandfather.

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Romney, fond though he is of singing “America the Beautiful” and describing the “special gift” of his nationality, is, himself, no stranger to the wider world. His 21 / 2-year mission to France shaped his Mormonism. The internationalism at Harvard accented his education. His foreign travel as a young consultant, the early Central American investment in Bain Capital and the windfall he received from deals in Italy all boosted his signature business. He uses his chairmanship of the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, literally the world’s games, as Exhibit A to make his case as a turnaround artist.

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Before Mitt Romney ventured out into the world, the world came to him. In 1959, the Romney family opened its Bloomfield Hills home to Attilio Cortella, an Italian exchange student who had won a scholarship from the American Field Service to study in the United States. Cortella had no idea who the Romneys were, and he was impressed at receiving a letter in Italy from Mitt’s mother, Lenore, saying that the only two families she knew in Italy were the Agnellis and Pininfarinas, the equivalent in America of the Kennedys or the Fords.

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Romney participated in his prep school’s World Affairs Seminar and was a member of the American Field Service club, which promoted the program that had earlier brought Cortella into his home, and raised money to support a German student on campus.

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Romney went with friends in the seaside tourist town of Biarritz to take pictures of the Rocher de la Vierge, a rock outcropping that resembles the Virgin Mary, and then climbed a nearby hill to write “Mitt Loves Ann” in the wet sand. In Roman ruins outside Le Havre, a port city at the mouth of the Seine, he struck an authoritative pose next to a statue of Julius Caesar. In Paris, he ate couscous in the Latin Quarter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-an-america-first-campaign-reminders-of-romneys-international-past/2012/07/22/gJQAuEU62W_print.html

[d_r]

1. really.

"His family was really an exodus story going across the West, poverty, building an empire. He can't talk about it because it involves Mormonism."

He can't talk about it because they were living in a polygamy camp! He can't talk about the amazing exodus because his family was so nutsy the regular Mormans ran them out of Utah, and then the Mexicans ran them out of Mexico.

[ProSense]

2. Cut him some slack

"He can't talk about it because they were living in a polygamy camp! "

It's David Brooks, professional GOP shill.

Mitt's faith only allows him to talk about peasants and profits.