Romney Advisers Reveal Strategy: Ignore Journalists, Pander To Right-Wing Conspriacy Websites

[Kadie]

Romney Advisers Reveal Strategy: Ignore Journalists, Pander To Right-Wing Conspriacy Websites
By Judd Legum on Jul 1, 2012 at 12:42 pm



In a stunning interview with Breitbart.com, two top advisers to Mitt Romney revealed the campaign’s plan to largely ignore journalists in favor of right-wing conspiracy websites.

From the beginning of the campaign, Romney has pointedly avoided news outlets who might pose tough questions. The press dubbed it “the Mittness Protection Program.” As the campaign wore on, Romney has refused to answer direct questions about major policy issues central to the campaign. For example, Romney has still not stated whether he would undo Obama’s order ending deportations for many young undocumented immigrants.

Romney campaign spokesman Lenny Alcivar recently outlined how the campaign will avoid journalists and cooridnate and communicate their message through Brietbart.com and the Drudge Report:

When this election is over, one of the lessons that will be learned by the mainstream media is that they no longer have a toe-hold on how Americans receive their news. Never before – in a way that has taken Democrats off stride – have we seen the confluence of an aggressive online community, led by Breitbart, and an aggressive campaign team not willing to cede an inch of ground to Democrats. This combination has created a new political reality. We no longer allow the mainstream media to define the political realities in America. The rise of Breitbart, Drudge and others, combined with an aggressive Romney campaign is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the conservative movement.

…The governor will no longer allow the mainstream media to dictate the terms of this debate. This is just the beginning… We are witnessing the rise of the center right media.

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/01/509328/romney-advisors-reveal-strategy-ignore-journalists-pander-to-right-wing-conspriacy-websites/

[Wounded Bear]

1. "We are witnessing the rise of the center right media."

Well, that's a lie. Nothing "center" about it.

[GP6971]

2. So does this mean

He won't participate in a debate with Obama?

[Rosanna Lopez]

4. No

It doesn't mean that. You can't not attend the Presidential debates if you want to win the election.

It just means he will only do the bare minimum amount of interviews and press conferences with the mainstream press.

[drm604]

6. I think he may try to avoid debates

and make it look like it's Obama's fault for not accepting Romney's terms.

[Rosanna Lopez]

7. Not going to happen

I just don't see that happening. Most people will not buy that. It's one thing to lie about policies and positions of his opponent. It's another thing to come up with a fake story like that.

You can't not attend the Presidential debates. The media won't tolerate it and the public won't tolerate it. Romney would be torn apart. He could not just blame it on Obama.

[drm604]

5. If he does,

it will only be on his terms and with questions his campaign has preapproved.

[GP6971]

12. Have they announced

who the moderators will be? I've seen dates and venues, but can't find anything on the moderators.

[drm604]

3. The right is isolating itself more and more from mainstream society.

Rather than having to deal with facts they don't like, they'll just isolate themselves and avoid ever even being exposed to them.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Skating on the edge hs it's hazards.

Mitt will soon learn, the hard way.

[Voice for Peace]

9. holy cow

THAT's why Romney's speeches are filled with lie after lie;
and that's why the campaign keeps doing all this stupid
stuff, and floundering. Seriously... his campaign advisors... ? yow

[Rosanna Lopez]

14. Clouds on the horizon for Obama?

I wouldn't say the campaign is floundering. Romney is behind, yes, but he still has the opportunity to catch up because of some of the flagging economic indicators that Obama will be confronted by over the Summer.

If the next Jobs Report is a downer like the last one was, Obama's numbers may start going down again. And Larry Summers just predicted this week that the economy is not likely to improve for Obama before the Election.

Let's not pretend that Romney is as far behind as Bob Dole was in 1996.

[Voice for Peace]

17. I think the campaign is not being run by very bright people

and running a not very bright candidate.

[dmr]

10. If he's that big of a chicken, then he will be no good protecting America from it's enemies.

That's the image he's portraying to me.

Or, if, right now, he's got so much to hide from the American public, then he absolutely cannot be trusted to do right by the American people, ever.

He's such a flip-flopper, it really doesn't much matter what he says today, because we know that tomorrow he'll say something else.

[tanyev]

11. Because it worked so well for Sarah Palin.

[freshwest]

13. He's been blowing the CT dog whistles at every campaign stop for the bagger vote.

[dgauss]

15. This is just a continuation of the "We create our own reality" strategy.

That requires lots of propaganda, which requires lots of money, which they now have thanks to the Citizens United decision.That's how you bypass the "reality based community."

As a reminder, this from Wikipedia:

The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. I'm surprised nobody has done this graphic yet

When this idiot finally steps out of his bubble and debates Obama.....

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