vendredi 24 août 2012

Mitt Romney et Todd Akin: on ne veut plus de questions sur le sujet!


L'équipe de Mitt Romney a indiqué à deux reprises que le candidat républicain souhaitait ne pas avoir à répondre à des questions au sujet des déclarations de Todd Akin. En s'exprimant maladroitement sur la question du viol récemment, Akin a plongé son parti dans l'embarras. Un cadeau pour les démocrates et la campagne Obama...

 "Before Mitt Romney appeared via satellite on an Ohio TV station WHIO Thursday, his campaign told a reporter it would prefer Romney did not get questions about Todd Akin. Fortunately for the Romney campaign, Akin wasn’t on the WHIO agenda. “They were chatting and it came up and I believe [a Romney staffer’s] wording was that they prefer not to talk about it,” assistant news director Tim Wolff told TPM. “But we didn’t care because we were going to talk about Ohio stuff.”

The WHIO interview was one of four satellite appearances Romney made on local TV stations Thursday. Per common practice, campaign officials fished around for topics and questions that might come up prior to the taping. In at least two of those interviews, the Romney campaign tried to shut down questions about Akin, whose continuing Senate campaign in Missouri is ensuring that abortion stays at the center of the presidential campaign narrative.

In Colorado, a Romney spokesperson set a no-Akin-questions policy as a precondition for getting access to the candidate.

The Romney campaign said such formal stipulations are not standard procedure.

“This is not how we operate,” a campaign official told TPM. “The matter is being addressed.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-tv-stations-akin.php?ref=fpa

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