Yesterday, I caught CNN's Piers Morgan interviewing Willard and Ann Romney in London.
ugh.
Below are some of Morgan's most biased comments.
This one takes the lead:
MORGAN: On the economy, clearly Barack Obama has decided your weakness, your vulnerability, is your record at Bain Capital. And it's a very divisive issue. And quite a fascinating issue because when I look at some of these attack ads, it's almost like he's attacking you for being successful and rich which is not a traditional area of battleground to an American from an American because America was founded on working hard, achievement, success, and making money.
How do you feel about the way that you're being attacked in that way?
FOX News couldn't have delivered it any better. In fact, that reads like a Romney press release.
here are his biased comments from the beginning of the interview
MORGAN: You've been slightly criticized for knocking the British enthusiasm. As if you haven't picked up much enthusiasm. You feeling it now?
as in, the Prime Minister of the UK and the conservative mayor of London openly mocked you [today!], but I won't mention that.
MORGAN: You're a man known for compromise. For doing deals. Getting stuff done. Not getting overly irrational about issues. You've done it in your business career. You've done it in your political career.
great analysis, you backside.
MORGAN: But President Obama last night in a speech [about guns] made a big speech which looked on the face of it he's getting credit for this. Looked like he was moving to change things. But actually when you study the detail, hard to find a specific "We should change this law."
Dear dear Morgan: Saying that "AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers" is in fact a policy proposal. Have you heard of the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004? I assume you have, since you asked Romney a question about the Massachusetts assault weapons ban that he signed in, um, 2004.
MORGAN: On the economy, clearly Barack Obama has decided your weakness, your vulnerability, is your record at Bain Capital. And it's a very divisive issue. And quite a fascinating issue because when I look at some of these attack ads, it's almost like he's attacking you for being successful and rich which is not a traditional area of battleground to an American from an American because America was founded on working hard, achievement, success, and making money.
How do you feel about the way that you're being attacked in that way?
FOX News couldn't have delivered it any better. In fact, that reads like a Romney press release.
MORGAN: Do you accept, do you accept that when you're running a company like Bain that was hugely successful, no one disputes that, you're going in, taking over companies, either you're investing in them as start-ups or as it turned out to be a more leveraged buyout situation. You go in and you give them your expertise. I think your preferred way was to keep the existing CEOs and incentivize them to do better with your help. And some succeeded. Some failed.
People have tried to portray you as a kind of ruthless money machine who some failed, some succeeded, you didn't care, you still got your fees or you made a ton of money. But actually quite a few of the companies that failed a lot of people lost their jobs, their livelihoods, and lost money.
To me, the key question is, do you know instinctively from your recollections how many of those companies that you went into would have failed anyway if you hadn't?
No. The question is, would these companies have failed if you hadn't leveraged them deep into debt while making off with millions of dollars.
I'm not going into the rest of the interview which incorporated Ann Romney and was mostly a human interest piece...
Piers, can you say "tax returns"?