i was thinking of 68 today. look, you remember when brian williams did that interview during the london olympics of mitt romney and it was a disaster. he almost got thrown out of the uk, and at that time charles kraut himer wrote a recommendation to mitt romney which was zip it, be quiet, you can only do damage to yourself in these interviews. it s not the art form that mitt romney is good at. barack obama is fa sil and quick-witted, can be funny and can get into policy depth. mitt romney is quite shallow in some ways, and he s better off probably running the ads he s doing than going on the talk show circuit. joan, tough interview people all the time. it seems to me he doesn t think he has to do it because it s below him to answer questions and i think as a business guy, a tycoon really, he can talk to anybody he wants to or not talk to anybody. that s the difference between the political press and the business press. yeah. he s not used to it. it s like he s running a rose gar
the only one that didn t come up the hard way and it was a joke. i want to tell you about mitt romney he s a boss, always been a boss. he tells john king i m not going to answer your question. when he ran against ted kennedy, he said i won t answer your question. he s used to the business press where you can success magazine isn t hardball isn t any of our programs, you don t have to answer the question, you say the interview is over. look how he dealt with the tree thing. any staffer would have said governor, what is this with trees? cool it. he didn t because he said the same exact thing the other day, several days ago. he doesn t have people around him like you and i have been, you and i have been this, we worked with politicians, you got to get back to the other thing, i love you boss but you have to get back to this thing. i don t think he s trainable. i think if he s president of the united states and still possible he will be, we will put up with an arrogant president will hol
would have been a termination settlement. three months salary or something like that. let me go to alex. it seems to me that he s a business man. he s like mitt romney, used to dealing with the business press, alex, not with us, okay? it s a different kettle of fish. i was just talking to karen finney, a democratic consultant, who said the business press can simply issue a statement and move on. with the political press, we re not satisfied with that. isn t that a fair estimate of this guy s inability to deal with something which has become a ball of wax for this guy, if that s the right word? well, sure, chris. and i would point out that for most of this year, cain has learned from the political press in his experience as a lower tier presidential candidate, that if you mess up verbally but keep talking, you can usually talk your way out of it. that s how he handled it when he said at first that he wouldn t want muslims in his cabinet and then backtracked on that. that s how he t
yes, there was some sort of settlement or termination, and i don t even know what the contents of that was. we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement. three months salary or something like that. let me go to alex. it seems to me that he s a business man. he s like mitt romney, used to dealing with the business press, alex, not with us, okay? it s a different kettle of fish. i was just talking to karen finney, a democratic consultant, who said the business press can simply issue a statement and move on. with the political press, we re not satisfied with that. isn t that a fair estimate of this guy s inability to deal with something which has become a ball of wax for this guy, if that s the right word? well, sure, chris. and i would point out that for most of this year, cain has ç learned from the political press in his experience as a lower tier presidential candidate, that if you mess up verbally but keep talking, you can usually talk your way out of
rametti will become ibm s ceo next year. let s book here. here s my question for mika and joe and willie, the media guys. why is it always bill gates, why aren t people talking about this unbelievably iconic american corporation, which is quietly transformed itself, whose stock price has gone crazy over the last 20 years when the market s been going down? part of it is i think the business press has become enamored of personality. that s exactly right. different, and so it s not as easy a story as covering jack or steve. it s a real culture that ibm has created. and you know, willie, ibm could ve very easily gone the way of kodak. it could have very easily collapsed. absolutely. they didn t. they corrected they course in the 1980s, early 1990s, and this is a remarkable story. i suspect other people are going to start writing about this story in the future. it is remarkable. they should.