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Fox and NBC telling Romney campaign what to do via Twitter...
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...
Murdoch set the second-guessing in motion when he wrote on Twitter that he met Romney last week and concluded that Obama “will be hard to beat unless [Romney] drops old friends from team and hires some real pros.”
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 candidate’s senior adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, declared in a Monday MSNBC interview that Romney considered the Affordable Care Act’s 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 week’s Supreme Court decision for allegedly breaking his pledge not to raise taxes.
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 candidate’s senior adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, declared in a Monday MSNBC interview that Romney considered the Affordable Care Act’s 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 week’s 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.
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