These and other dubious assurances are forgivable from the political class, but they are inexcusable coming from self-described members of the press.
www.mediaite.com
"In early 2012, President
Barack Obama was caught on an open microphone telling Russia’s then-President
Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more “flexibility” after the presidential election in his dealings with Russia. Romney reacted strongly to that comment. Appearing on CNN, the GOP nominee said that the United States
should regard Russia as a geopolitical adversary and should work to limit Russia’s flexibility rather than to secure it. His observation was soundly criticized by the president’s defenders who, at the time, were still attempting to
rehabilitate Obama’s floundering “Reset” with Russia."
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But MSNBC’s wagons circled particularly quickly in defense of the president. Volley after volley of snark was lobbed in the GOP nominee’s direction.
“I don’t know what decade this guy’s living in,” MSNBC host
Chris Matthews said with a sigh on March 28, 2012. “Is he trying to play Ronald Reagan here, or what?” “This is Mitt Romney’s severely conservative problem,” University of Georgia professor
Cynthia Tucker opined on-the-air. “
It made Romney look dumb. He’s not a dumb man, but he said something that was clearly dumb.”
Huffington Post reporter
Sam Stein agreed that Romney’s statement was evidence of an “antiquated worldview.” He fretted further about how Romney, should he become president, would enter the office having severely complicated America’s bilateral relations with Moscow given his carelessly provocative statement.
“I personally am worried about what it says to the Russian people,” Matthews added to a chorus of sagely nods."
MSNBC hosts
Rachel Maddowand
Lawrence O’Donnell got in on the self-satisfied ridicule, too. Promoting Maddow’s latest book about the “unmooring of American military power,” O’Donnell asked the flagship MSNBC host if Romney was merely reflecting on what he might have read in that book.
“He read about Reagan’s private, outside-the-CIA cabal of team-B zealots who were telling him that Russia had all the stuff they didn’t have so he could justify a giant defense budget,” Maddow submitted scornfully.
“It is amazing that Mitt Romney can flip like that just as soon as he hears something to exploit in foreign policy,” O’Donnell remarked. "
Maddow went on her blog and even wrote this: "
I can appreciate why the Romney campaign would try to make Obama’s “hot mic” story interesting, but the problem is the former governor just doesn’t have any real policy chops in this area. He’s out of his depth, and struggles when the subject takes center stage.
It’s not just that Romney is uninformed; it’s that he hasn’t figured out how to fake it."
Watch the video in the link....the Demafascist and their propaganda arm having been defending Putin and carrying Russian water for over a decade....they have been the useful idiots that allowed this invasion by Putin.