romney in panic mode. romney campaign in disarray, says romney campaign. more from poe lit co: abruftly shifts straty. the washington post , the romney campaign is in trouble. it s not like they didn t look like they were in trouble before today, but what is driving this particularly overwhelmingly vigorously negative news cycle for them is the people who work on the campaign are talking to reporters. they re talking about each other and about mitt romney. explaining who it is that they blame for the fact that they are losing so badly right now. one campaign advisor saying this. i always have the impression stuart must save his stuff for meetings i m not important enough to attend. then there s the criticism of the candidate himself. romney associates are bufld that
essentially, even before you knew about ed being back from back surgery this quickly and without pain, before you knew that, i could have told you the news today is essentially rolling out in double time right now. today was a day of major presidential campaign news. possibly the worst day the mitt romney for president campaign has had in politics since mr. romney got the nomination. but that was before the news broke late today of something that s likely to make things considerably worse for mr. romney and for his campaign. we have a very, very full hour of news ahead. including frank rich being here for the interview. we need to start with tonight s breaking news. secretly-recorded video from a private mitt romney for president fundraiser appears to show the republican nominee for president characterizing half of the elector at as inable to be dependent. that s the portion he will not bother with, le doesn t need to
conservative media, his piece is called my embed in red. thank you for being here. do you feel like those were fair samples in talking about the difference in tone you re getting from the two parts of the right? completely fair. it was absolutely fascinating to me. the way i did it is listened to all the radio all day. watched fox at night. looked at the websites. and fox, you nailed it talking about having double employment. fox really is an arm of the romney campaign. what you find listening to the grass roots is a lot of suspicion about both romney and the gop establishment in general, a fury about the rules changes that were pushed through. we covered it. fox didn t cover it. it was not just about ron paul. it was across the board.
at fox news risking the situation in which they are seen as the establishment and they lose all of the energy on their own side in the same way that the national republican senate snee and all these guys had to bare the brunt of their own wing? i think you re right, but i think you re hitting the conundrum about fox. it s not a tea party association. it s owned by rupert murdoch, more or less. so therefore, when the chips are down, they are going to go with romney. murdoch himself has been skeptic of romney. that s where the interests are. the tea party people, the grass roots have nowhere to go. i think the grass roots people would say we have some place to go, possibly some day a third party. but i think if romney loses, which increasingly seems likely
politico serves as liaison between romney and movement conservatives. you remember john bolten as the ambassador to the u.n. remember him from the george bush years? he has a gig on fox news. you can see here he s explaining how the attack on the u.s. embassy how that was caused by the weakness and fecklessness of the obama administration. but john bolten is not just a fox news tv guy. he s also a romney campaign foreign policy advisor. so he gets to work for the romney campaign while he works on fox news. in fact, mr. bolten announced his endorsement of mitt romney during an appearance on fox news. the folks at media matters have been tracking the overlap of the analysts. a spokesperson said his joint