by Datechguy | October 4th, 2012
There were a lot of words spoken about yesterday’s debate on the net (some by me) but one of the most important sentences was spoken by Robert Stacy McCain last night in an unextraordinary update to his livepost:
UPDATE 9:09 p.m. ET: Mitt opens with humorous anniversary congratulations, then goes into his 5-Point Plan for economic recovery. Having followed Mitt on the trail, I’ve heard this a zillion times, but for many of the 50 million people watching, it’s new.
That’s a totally unremarkable statement after all Stacy has been to rally after rally in Ohio. I’ve heard the pitch of the five point plan twice myself, once at St. Anselm and once at Holman Stadium in Nashua.
And I’ve even posted video that might seem familiar if you saw last night’s debate from St. Anselm
And Nashua
Nothing that people at the rallies haven’t heard a million times before.
But to a lot of the public it was all new, combined those two clips have less than 300 views., why? Because the MSM that has been “covering” the race has not been reporting it .
In fact on Morning Joe today they actually had the audacity to ask if this Mitt Romney would show up on the campaign trail. That prompted this tweet from me
Earth to .@morning_joe the .@mittromney of last night has been on the trail the whole time , you just haven’t reported it #tcot #p2
— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) October 4, 2012
and Stacy McCain Backed me up
@datechguyblog Yes, Mitt says this stuff all the time in his rally speeches. Seldom gets reported as “news,” though.@morning_joe
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 4, 2012
That’s the real dirty secret of this debate, not that there is a different Mitt Romney at the debate then on the campaign trail, but that the Mitt Romney at this debate bears no resemblance to the caricature that the left, the media and the 30 seconds ads have painted.
The Totalitarian Media and Left made the mistake that all totalitarians make, they have heard their own propaganda so often and have lived in their own bubble so long they actually have started to believe their own spin.
The Iron curtain was solid right up until it fell, the Berlin Wall was a death barrier right up until chunks of it became collectors items, the Soviet Union was going to outperform the west right up until the moment when it collapsed.
And the press’ conventional wisdom on Mitt Romney was gospel, right up until the second it was not.
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Update: Stacy McCain Nails it in his American Spectator Piece
If ever there were a night when conservatives wanted to watch MSNBC, this was it — an all-you-can-eat buffet of schadenfreude, as one after another of the liberal network’s personalities tried to come to grips with what was perhaps the most one-sided presidential debate since JFK beat a shifty-looking Richard Nixon in 1960. “In terms of debate tactics, Romney was on the offense most of the night,” a glum Howard Fineman acknowledged, while a shell-shocked Chuck Todd admitted that the result “automatically elevates Romney as a credible alternative” and later added, in reference to the Obama camp’s post-debate mood: “They know they lost tonight.”
I remember getting back to the house with Stacy McCain & Dan Collins from the Scott Brown Victory Party at 3:48 AM for the 2nd day in a row after an early morning. We were all exhausted but Stacy put on MSNBC and we all stayed up long enough to watch Keith Olberman Squirm. That is what last night was.
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I have to assume near the end Romney was whispering to Obama “don’t get up, man” …
I was reminded of a scene from Under Siege” when someone says to Steven Segal, “I thought you were a cook” and he responds “I also cook” … Obama was looking at Romney like “I thought you were a businessman” …
across the country millions of Americans went “Oh, thats how he made hundreds of millions of dollars” …
The most surreal part of the post-debate coverage was Chris Matthews complaining about how if President Obama were regularly watching MSNBC he would have known what to say.
In other words, Barack Obama hasn’t been running the campaign they have been “reporting” either. Someone forgot to sync the alternate realities.
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