attack that same part of the u.s. government. called the actions of embassy personnel in egypt, disgrace disgraceful. just like in previous situations, some of the harshest criticism of mr. romney has been coming from his own side, from fellow republicans. former reagan speechwriter peggy noonan telling fox news today, sometimes today when really bad things happen, when hot things happen, cool words or no words is the way to go. mark salter described mr. romney s comments today as unfair and hyperbolic, as well as unseemly in its timing. one senior republican foreign policy adviser telling buzz feed today, they were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it s just completely blown up. it s an utter disaster. another republican telling buzz feed, quote, they re incompetent at talking effectively about foreign policy. this is just unbelievable. those are the republicans. to give you a sense of the magnitude of this as a screwup, even must ge
with those wage the attacks. later washington pulled back the embassy statement saying we didn t authorize it. you wound up having the obama administration and romney agreeing the embassy statement was not appropriate. but the whole narrative yesterday was how awful romney was for pointing it out. the outrage being expressed that mitt romney put out this statement even overshadows any outrage you would see over the fact that you have islamic flags being hoist over american embassies and an american ambassador is dead. you are not seeing the same level of outrage over just the process. what time they put the statement out. it s absolutely utterly insane the way they have elevated this. and even if we step upped, megyn, let many just step up that for the sake of argument that romney shouldn t have don t. i don t agree with it. but it still would not explain
conference. tonight, correspondent shannon bream looks at how the press has covered governor romney response to events in the middle east. late tuesday, g.o.p. romney called the u.s. response to the attacks in middle east disgraceful and say it appeared to sympathize with those weighing the attack. i came in form of an embassy statement which secretary of state hillary clinton rejected and senior officials officials say the white house never approved. despite the distance the administration wants between it and the embassy statement only romney is taking heat for criticizing it. the statement looks crass and tone deaf in light of this day. they called romney s statement unwise, inaccurate and unpresidential. the president policies in the middle east should be the big story now. how are the president s policies affecting what is happening over there. instead it s become mitt
exactly right say what he said when he did? yeah. look he is getting pressure all day because of some major event, attacks on our embassy to issue a statement. he issued a statement that rightly focused on this completely indefensible press release reaffirmed during the day by the embassy in egypt, basically apologizing to these protesters in saying that people in america were abusing their free speech rights which is not the place of one of our embassies to comment on things americans say in this country,%ing their constitutional rights. and for confirmation that that embassy statement was totally indefensible, the white house distanced it telephone from it and threw the statement under the bus and said had nothing to do with it. you would have thought romney had been vindicated. but next morning the press woke up and decided mitt romney had to apologize for something for this. when he didn t, began to write stories how his campaign was basically over and had blown itself up in a le
american values. a part of the u.s. government was under attack. mitt romney responded while the attack was still going on, to attack that same part of the u.s. government. called the actions of embassy personnel in egypt, disgra disgraceful. just like in previous situations, some of the harshest criticism of mr. romney has been coming from his own side, from fellow republicans. former reagan speechwriter peggy noonan telling fox news today, sometimes today when really bad things happen, when hot things happen, cool words or no words is the way to go. mark salter described mr. romney s comments today as unfair and hyperbolic, as well as unseemly in its timing. one senior republican foreign policy adviser telling buzz feed today, they were just trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it s just completely blown up. it s an utter disaster. another republican telling buzz feed, quote, they re incompetent at talking effectively about