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This is unprecedented. Since Sunday, Rupert Murdoch and Jack Welch, who effectively control FOX and NBC/CNBC/MSNBC have scolded the Romney campaign publicly on Twitter.
They are all pissed off because Romney won't call ACA a tax like they want him to. They have this whole playbook and Prince Romney won't stick to it. It set off a tweet storm...
Soon, Murdoch had company from another prominent GOP business titan. Hope Mitt Romney is listening to Murdoch advice, tweeted former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. Playing in league with Chicago pols. No room for amateurs.
The new round of Republican griping went into overdrive after the candidates senior adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, declared in a Monday MSNBC interview that Romney considered the Affordable Care Acts individual mandate to be a penalty, not a tax. The stance put Romney at odds with the vast majority of Republican campaign groups, which have pummeled Obama since last weeks Supreme Court decision for allegedly breaking his pledge not to raise taxes.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78154.html
They set this up like political Tee-ball and Romney's guy was just supposed to answer the canned questions in the talking point scripted way but he went with "penalty" instead of tax so they are pissed. Jack Welch is CEO of the parent company of MSNBC. He went to Twitter to publicly call Romney and his team "amateurs."
I think these tweets expose again the RW ownership of the media but much further than that, they are strategizing with the Romney campaign in full view of the world. This is beyond bias but they show no shame in revealing their power. Quite the opposite, they seem to be trying to show themselves to be smarter and more powerful than Romney.
It is as if the puppet masters have felt the need to step on stage due to technical difficulties with the puppet.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)that involves hard work. If he were serious he would have a VP on board by now to do the bus trips, etc. This is just a fun thing for he and his family to do and then they can go on a big vaca after the election and share the laughs. I honestly believe that OR he is just a stupid politician who is clueless on how to run and manage a campaign.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)My wife and I were discussing this the other day.
Before we cancelled Dish; we weren't watching commercials. We had our programs recorded and skipped through all the commercials.
We watch Netflix and Hulu now and while there is no skipping the commercials on hulu; there aren't many, and if they started bombarding me with political ads I'd watch more Netflix which has no commercials.
Does anyone else here have similar viewing habits. If you do; do you agree? A lot of these PAC ads may get viewed less than at any time in the past.
It may be a huge waste of money.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)They call elections on election night as early as possible. They can decide what is "news," what frame an issue gets and what gets ignored. Jack Welch is Trump and Pat Buchanon's boss (and he thinks he is Romney's boss also so maybe he is).
This isn't about advertising -- it is about Romney blowing all the freebie airtime and MSM help that they can give to him and his surrogates.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)I understand your point, but why spend all that money? Everyone makes such a big deal out of how much they're spending on ads; is that just so we'll give money to fight them?
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)With Dish or Direct, you can record for a while, then blast through
commercials. It's nice to think that the 400M the Koch's will be putting
up is just money wasted.
Bake
(21,977 posts)He retired ages ago. Jeff Immelt is the CEO of GE, parent company of NBC/MSNBC.
Bake