post, did god send isaac to punish republicans? i mean, what are they thinking? and jennifer granholm made the same in a tweet, former governor of michigan now, a current tv to the left of msnbc somewhere, look, i think that the press legitimately thought it would be a big story sort of a harmonic conversion of juxtaposition and didn t work out the way that anybody would. the storm didn t hit tampa and didn t hit new orleans like katrina hit new orleans for sure. and peggy noonen s blog they debuted it how the republican convention went from nervousness and fear the first couple of days to a much happier outcome by wednesday or thursday. andrea mitchell mentioned the photo of president bush flying over and not landing in new orleans during katrina. he later said look, anytime a president goes anywhere you have to have all kinds of motorcade coverage, you have to police, and emt s and it s
certainly wasn t good and seems like she wasn t sure he should have gone and felt that he did a lot of pandering and just generally didn t handle things well. so, i don t think that peggy noonen is part of this conspiracy against mitt romney. here is the problem though, if mitt romney comes out and holds, you know, seven presses in when he was in europe, the story then becomes mitt romney is trying to overshadow president obama, he s trying to steal president obama s thunder and look more presidential. it s really a lose-lose for mitt romney. whatever he does he s screwed and look, let s talk about the fact that president obama held five press conference ins four months, no one is talking about that. jon: and the culture comment and one ap reporter took romney s remarks about culture out of context and palestinian versus israeli culture and another ap reporter picks it up and makes it even worse. right ap look, what governor ram any said about the choices that society makes in te
certainly wasn t good and seems like she wasn t sure he should have gone and felt that he did a lot of pandering and just generally didn t handle things well. so, i don t think that peggy noonen is part of this conspiracy against mitt romney. here is the problem though, if mitt romney comes out and holds, you know, seven presses in when he was in europe, the story then becomes mitt romney is trying to overshadow president obama, he s trying to steal president obama s thunder and look more presidential. it s really a lose-lose for mitt romney. whatever he does he s screwed and look, let s talk about the fact that president obama held five press conference ins four months, no one is talking about that. jon: and the culture comment and one ap reporter took romney s remarks about culture out of context and palestinian versus israeli culture and another ap reporter picks it up and makes it even worse. right ap look, what governor ram any said about the choices that society makes in te
paying taxes and should go away. jon: let s talk about the media s presumptive gaffe fest as they followed mitt romney overseas tour. rich lauer, the presumptive presidential nominee, traveled to our allies accompanied by his merciless enemies, the media. did he nail it. gaffe palooza as gene robinson called it in the post, why don t they like mitt romney? at the moment those who traveled with them don t like him because he wouldn t talk to them. if you don t talk to them and feed the beast, the beast will develop its own narrative and that s what they have. you know, but he was criticized hem for that reason and not being that available to the media and peggy noonen in her column stayed that this was actually was a pretty disastrous trip, maybe not as bad as people say it is, it
kidding? did he see the jobs numbers? john mccain in 2008 the day the lehman brothers collapsed, said, in the context of a statement that was better, said the fundamentals of the economy are good. boy did he hear that for the rest of the campaign. the president s statement is a devastating statement because he is going to see it over and over again, and peggy noonen said, does he just not get it? he raised those questions. but romney, the democrats have said this morning, heard a lot of this, look at statements romney has made of rich people, but, you know what, those do not hurt romney. this is bigger than that. because he is the president. gregg: doug, is it that big? he back peddled quickly. but you cannot grab something back that you say when it comes out. it is a metaphor, the jobs numbers are bad. the economic growth numbers are