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maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 11:58 AM Jul 2012

Now Romney camp claims the unnamed "advisor" has no connection to the campaign

An unnamed “adviser” to Mitt Romney who told the London Telegraph that the candidate appreciates “Anglo-Saxon heritage” better than President Obama has no actual connection to the campaign, a spokeswoman for the former Massachusetts governor said Wednesday.

“It’s not true,” Amanda Hennenberg said in a statement. “If anyone said that, they weren’t reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign.”

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage,” reporter Jon Swaine claims a “a member of the [Romney] foreign policy advisory team” said. “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.”

Obama strategist David Axelrod called the quote “stunningly offensive.”

Romney does have a team of 22 foreign policy and national security advisers. But British papers have looser guidelines on anonymous quotes than most of the American press. An “adviser” could have no actual role in the campaign; the Republican’s staff rarely talks to the foreign press.

more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-camp-anglo-saxon-report-false/2012/07/25/gJQAS9D38W_blog.html

What a farce. So they sent 22 advisors to talk to The Telegraph yet they aren't really advisors?

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Now Romney camp claims the unnamed "advisor" has no connection to the campaign (Original Post) maddezmom Jul 2012 OP
Mittens doesn't seem to run a very tight ship. nc4bo Jul 2012 #1
Is his campaign Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #18
Just more lies RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #2
The Telegraph should name names. C_U_L8R Jul 2012 #3
+1 They need to do that! n/t flamingdem Jul 2012 #57
+1, they're call the Telegraph liars on a very racist statement. Racist are usually punks anyway uponit7771 Jul 2012 #64
When rule favor Romney and his ilk, they have balls the size of a rhino (No pun intended) rustydog Jul 2012 #4
Huh? Mz Pip Jul 2012 #5
LOL, sure, I believe them....NOT... Spazito Jul 2012 #6
Sounds like John Sununu to me. DefenseLawyer Jul 2012 #7
Yeah, but weren't the great and glorious "founding fathers" Solomon Jul 2012 #14
Oh, when they say "anti-colonial," they mean black and brown folks alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #36
I'm so flashing on the Beatles 'Bungalow Bill": coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #8
Are they going ProSense Jul 2012 #9
The man wouldn't know truth if it smacked him upside the head. Marrah_G Jul 2012 #10
The RMoney campaign has terminated the advisor... orwell Jul 2012 #11
ROFL gollygee Jul 2012 #13
exactly Enrique Jul 2012 #47
He's more Anglo Saxon than I am, and I'm 100% white gollygee Jul 2012 #12
So they're calling the reporter a liar leftynyc Jul 2012 #15
There's not enough popcorn in the world BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #16
LOL maddezmom Jul 2012 #17
May have to trade up soon! BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #19
Maybe to this! Aerows Jul 2012 #24
Or this BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #31
LOL Aerows Jul 2012 #54
Thumbs up on that! BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #65
I call him rocktivity Jul 2012 #66
Does this automaton just sit there..surrounded by a maelstrom annabanana Jul 2012 #20
Someone doesn't even have to work for the campaign to be considered an "advisor" in England? hughee99 Jul 2012 #21
Where did you read that part? Lex Jul 2012 #22
In the OP hughee99 Jul 2012 #25
The reporter has responded and identified the source as... Spazito Jul 2012 #35
I had no doubt someone on Romney's team was dumb enough to say it... hughee99 Jul 2012 #49
I am not sure they do... Spazito Jul 2012 #53
I was seeing "British papers have looser guidelines on anonymous quotes . . ." Lex Jul 2012 #48
Seems like the sort of gray area the media in the US would go nuts with. hughee99 Jul 2012 #51
Campaign adviser versus White House adviser Lex Jul 2012 #56
It was just "unnamed" adviser in the story, I guess that could have been anything hughee99 Jul 2012 #59
Most certainly an "adviser" in UK unc70 Jul 2012 #43
SOP for repubs IDemo Jul 2012 #23
Fucking Willard gopiscrap Jul 2012 #26
Retroactively, no doubt. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2012 #27
Oh really? Who is this person who is not connected, then? jberryhill Jul 2012 #28
STERN RULES!!! thelordofhell Jul 2012 #29
"Mom, that's not my weed!" DevonRex Jul 2012 #30
Was holding it for a friend! alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #38
His parents would kill him! Unlike you guys. DevonRex Jul 2012 #42
He said "because my parents are super cool about this stuff..." alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #44
OMG. That's a beauty. Should be in DevonRex Jul 2012 #46
I knew that campaign would step in it on this trip! I predicted this right here on DU! CTyankee Jul 2012 #32
well, yeah, not anymore! shanti Jul 2012 #33
he has no connectionp arely staircase Jul 2012 #34
Gee, Mitt, if you got some asshole running around making racist comments Arkana Jul 2012 #37
And this is a foreign policy advisor who might end up at NSA or State? alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #39
Seriously--you'd end up with Nixon-era-esque floods Arkana Jul 2012 #41
And so the plot thickens.... YoungDemCA Jul 2012 #40
So did Romney condemn the statement? aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #45
Maybe Mittens should tell us who this "advisor" who isn't an advisor's name. Lex Jul 2012 #50
Wiggling out of it again1 Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2012 #52
Romney retroactively fired this UN-named Advisor DearAbby Jul 2012 #55
I would put my money on... 33Greeper Jul 2012 #58
+1 uponit7771 Jul 2012 #62
he's lying. spanone Jul 2012 #60
Swaine should just come out with who said it... uponit7771 Jul 2012 #61
Those rethuglicans have xxqqqzme Jul 2012 #63

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
1. Mittens doesn't seem to run a very tight ship.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:04 PM
Jul 2012

So many loose cannons, so much fun to come. He better rein all that in

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,438 posts)
18. Is his campaign
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:33 PM
Jul 2012

"LEAKING?"


And we're supposed to trust our economic and national security to this guy?

RedStateLiberal

(1,374 posts)
2. Just more lies
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:05 PM
Jul 2012

Are we suppose to just trust Romney's word? REALLY? All he's done is lie lie lie.

Why would a newspaper interview someone with no ties to the campaign and call them an adviser. If I get interviewed can I call myself an Obama adviser?

This is bullshit. They're covering their ass.

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
4. When rule favor Romney and his ilk, they have balls the size of a rhino (No pun intended)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:08 PM
Jul 2012

When they actually may have to answer for comments or actually take action and be held accountable, they fold like the cheap, empty-suit cowards they are.

This piece of shit was pro-draft yet ran off to "study" in France. he is a vulture capitalist who hid money in swiss bank accounts. This piece of evian-scented dung bought companies, fires people, off shores their jobs then guts the company for insane profits.

Yet deep-down, this dog-abusing coward won't stand up for his own paid political adviser.

Mz Pip

(27,453 posts)
5. Huh?
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:10 PM
Jul 2012

"an "advisor" could have no actual role in the campaign." What the hell does that even mean?

Keep digging Mitt.

Spazito

(50,484 posts)
6. LOL, sure, I believe them....NOT...
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:11 PM
Jul 2012

This from the same 'team' whose candidate goes out of his way to call the President "corrupt", "foreign" etc.

I have NO doubt it was 'wink, wink, nod, nod' approval from the campaign for their cowardly anonymous advisor to say exactly what he/she said.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
7. Sounds like John Sununu to me.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:11 PM
Jul 2012

but that whole idea that President Obama has an "anti-colonial mindset" because of his Kenyan father has been a pretty common attack by the racist Glenn Beck crowd since the beginning.

Solomon

(12,319 posts)
14. Yeah, but weren't the great and glorious "founding fathers"
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:21 PM
Jul 2012

anti-colonial as well? I mean hell, how did we become the United States of America?

Dumb asses.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
36. Oh, when they say "anti-colonial," they mean black and brown folks
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:41 PM
Jul 2012

Bandung Conference, postcolonial theory, and generally n*ggers of all stripes getting all land-grabby and killing white farmers with machetes.



They don't mean the Irish or - heaven forefend - the Founders!

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
8. I'm so flashing on the Beatles 'Bungalow Bill":
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:11 PM
Jul 2012

HE WENT out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun
In case of accidents he always took his mom
He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son.
All the children sing

Hey Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
9. Are they going
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:13 PM
Jul 2012
“It’s not true,” Amanda Hennenberg said in a statement. “If anyone said that, they weren’t reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign.”


...to deny that Bolton has "no connection to the campaign" too?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021018965

"What a farce. So they sent 22 advisors to talk to The Telegraph yet they aren't really advisors?"



gollygee

(22,336 posts)
12. He's more Anglo Saxon than I am, and I'm 100% white
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:15 PM
Jul 2012

These people are racist AND stupid. They wouldn't say this about someone who was part French and part German, even though that is a person who isn't at all Anglo Saxon, but they'll say it about someone whose mother's last name is English.

BumRushDaShow

(129,543 posts)
16. There's not enough popcorn in the world
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:23 PM
Jul 2012

to satisfy watching this freak show Willard Mitt Rmoney, TheFreakCandidate™.



annabanana

(52,791 posts)
20. Does this automaton just sit there..surrounded by a maelstrom
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 12:43 PM
Jul 2012

Of bladder-flappers.. with no clue at all what goes on around him?

reference edit:

Gulliver's Travels
The Land of Laputa (note: not the Lilliputians)

Ay my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to be of better quality. They beheld me with all the marks and circumstances of wonder; neither indeed was I much in their debt, having never till then seen a race of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits, and countenances.

Their heads were all reclined, either to the right, or the left; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands. In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. With these bladders, they now and then flapped the mouths and ears of those who stood near them, of which practice I could not then conceive the meaning. It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is CLIMENOLE) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.

And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
21. Someone doesn't even have to work for the campaign to be considered an "advisor" in England?
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:01 PM
Jul 2012

Am I understanding this correctly? What are the qualifications to be considered an "advisor" then?

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
25. In the OP
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:24 PM
Jul 2012

"Romney does have a team of 22 foreign policy and national security advisers. But British papers have looser guidelines on anonymous quotes than most of the American press. An “adviser” could have no actual role in the campaign; the Republican’s staff rarely talks to the foreign press. "

Am I misunderstanding it?

Spazito

(50,484 posts)
35. The reporter has responded and identified the source as...
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:38 PM
Jul 2012

a member of Romney's foreign policy advisory team. Seems pretty straight forward in that the source IS an advisor.

"The reporter later tweeted to clarify that the quote came from a “member of [Romney’s] foreign policy advisory team.”"

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
49. I had no doubt someone on Romney's team was dumb enough to say it...
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:12 PM
Jul 2012

I was just surprised the journalism rules over in England allowed a reporter to call someone an adviser who didn't actually work for the team.

Spazito

(50,484 posts)
53. I am not sure they do...
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:17 PM
Jul 2012

this strikes me as the opinion of the writer of the article with no citing of what that even means re looser guidelines. When a writer throws that kind of thing out, imo, they should back it up with the guideline/s they are referencing.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
48. I was seeing "British papers have looser guidelines on anonymous quotes . . ."
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:12 PM
Jul 2012

because I do think "advisor" is kind of a gray area. I don't think you have to be a paid advisor to a campaign to be an "advisor."

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
51. Seems like the sort of gray area the media in the US would go nuts with.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:16 PM
Jul 2012

I can just imagine the media here quoting someone and calling them a "white house adviser" because he once recommended that Obama try the grilled chicken wrap for lunch.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
56. Campaign adviser versus White House adviser
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:21 PM
Jul 2012

would be different. Romney's camp pegged Hilary Rosen as a Obama adviser when she said that thing about Mrs. Romney not understanding women's issues today because she hadn't ever had to work in her life. I don't think Rosen is a paid advisor to Obama.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/04/12/romney_camp_will_keep_calling_hilary_rosen_an_obama_adviser_because_shut_up_that_s_why.html


hughee99

(16,113 posts)
59. It was just "unnamed" adviser in the story, I guess that could have been anything
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:44 PM
Jul 2012

from an officially hired adviser, a nutritionist, the neighbor who told you the easiest way to get rid of the ants in your garage, or the waiter who recommended the chicken salad.

I'm not a fan of anonymous quotes, and it's always seemed suspect to me when the press asks someone to comment on an anonymous quote. I'm mentioning it here, but it seems to be a popular tactic of the RW.

unc70

(6,121 posts)
43. Most certainly an "adviser" in UK
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:50 PM
Jul 2012

And usually "adviser" in the US, unless in a government context when "advisor" prevails.

gopiscrap

(23,765 posts)
26. Fucking Willard
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:26 PM
Jul 2012

lying his ugly ass off has served him his whole life..hopefully that ends with this election!!!!

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
44. He said "because my parents are super cool about this stuff..."
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:53 PM
Jul 2012

We're all trying to get him to stop...

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
32. I knew that campaign would step in it on this trip! I predicted this right here on DU!
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:34 PM
Jul 2012

They can't help it. His campaign is rapidly becoming a joke...

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
37. Gee, Mitt, if you got some asshole running around making racist comments
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:42 PM
Jul 2012

and attributing them to you and your campaign, maybe you should run a tighter ship, hmmm?

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
39. And this is a foreign policy advisor who might end up at NSA or State?
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:44 PM
Jul 2012

My goodness! Imagine the leaks!

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
41. Seriously--you'd end up with Nixon-era-esque floods
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:45 PM
Jul 2012

of information because one of Romney's people had too many Cuervo shots last night.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
50. Maybe Mittens should tell us who this "advisor" who isn't an advisor's name.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:14 PM
Jul 2012

Then we'd know for certain.

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
55. Romney retroactively fired this UN-named Advisor
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:21 PM
Jul 2012

so y'all are barking up the wrong tree. The whistle takes just a moment..they can re-write it anyway they want. The target, got the message. All that matters.

Romney: Leave no racist behind.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
63. Those rethuglicans have
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:54 PM
Jul 2012

such a problem w/ those 'enthusiastic volunteers'. As I recall the dumbya campaign had an ongoing struggle w/ them at nearly every rally and appearance.

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