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86 Percent of ABC, CBS, NBC Evening News Stories on Romney's Overseas Trip Emphasized His 'Missteps'

cburton Wrote: Aug 05, 2012 12:00 PM
It's about time themedia stop promoting him and start being honest. They did Ron Paul a colossal injustice in giving him bad publicity or ignoring him altogether; now the "assumptive nominee" deserves to be given the bad press he deserves. He and his operatives have stolen votes and delegates from Ron Paul (and probably others) through rampant election fraud of every description in virtually every state in the Union throughout these primaries; about time they give the crook what he deserves, and about time justice prevails and he serves time for what he's done to defraud the People of their right to choose their leader. If we stop allowing this kind of thing to happen, maybe future elections will reflect the People's choice.

I get that Mitt Romney's overseas trip may or may not have been the most well-executed presidential campaign booster, but it appears the networks are determined to forego any flowery rhetoric they reserved for 2008 Obama and emphasize Romney's failures. According to the Media Research Center,

"Mitt Romney's week-long international trip resulted in unrelentingly negative coverage from the big three broadcast networks, a stark change from the glowing press awarded to then-candidate Barack Obama's world tour in 2008. While Obama was treated like a rock star (from the Associated Press: "It's not only Obama's youth, eloquence and...

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