The Washington Post has done it again. Reporter Felicia Sonmez (8/17/12) somehow got a Republican campaign adviser to spill the beans on the Ryan/Romney relationship :
A senior Republican adviser close to the campaign who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Ryan views Romney’s career as “a case study of some of the ideas that he has been immersed in and debating about for years.”
“By his intellect and political upbringing, he is a natural champion for the success of the free-market system,” the adviser said of Ryan. “He’s a true believer in the free-market system. And so he views Governor Romney as an Exhibit A in the case for how people in the private sector can build things–build businesses, turn around businesses, take risks, put capital to work, and make a contribution to society and to the economy and to the workplace.”
So Paul Ryan secretly thinks the world of Mitt Romney. That is the kind of unvarnished truth-telling that you can only get when a reporter grants a source the protection of anonymity.
Doesn’t anyone think it odd that in such a great democracy like the USA one can very seldom find anyone with the balls to come out and tell the truth? My name is so-and-so and this is what I know this, that or the other thing, about him or her.
Anonymous statements are, at best, just hearsay.
I don’t understand why it’s newsworthy or significant that Ryan respects Romney. Why is it case of spilling the beans? Please explain. (I’m a progressive!)
pointless
wow. groundbreaking.
Don, it’s irony, intended to highlight the ridiculousness of the fact that the WaPo will grant anonymity to a source providing as banal a claim as that a VP candidate respects his own running mate.
The point is to get a story out about what a great team and what great guys Romney/Ryan are. Had to be anonymous or it is just one toady’s pitch for a raise. The corporate media has to work hard to find a way to keep positive things in the news about the national disgrace that so much of the right wing has become.
Well the news reporter knows the name, but to release would mean the end of that person’s professional life. And like our dear president, such people are considered vermin in our country.
Neither Romney nor Paul has my great respect or admiration, much less my agreement. Romney is speaking absolute garbage about Obama. Actually, I’ve heard as much from either one as I ever want or need to hear.
The dumbest thing about this article is when he writes that Ryan essentially likes Mitt because they both agree with a free market system.Yeah…so what.Who doesn’t?This country is not communist or Socialist.Everyone in this country( besides the affore- mentioned nuts) believes in a free market system.THAT is what America is.
Would the reporter be willing to go to jail to protect this source?
Albert Einstein was a socialist.
Cass albert was a genius…… AND a nut job.He would walk out of the house in his underwear.Bad connection there .His idea was that everyone (gov included) should take care of everything for him ,so he could work on what was important.For him that would be the theory of relativity.For me- it would be fishing and hunting.To say he was disengaged from the real world would not be telling the half of it.Sooner or later …..he problem with socialism is that it runs out of other folks money.
The oil industry is a “free-market” – but it has to be helped along by $billions of taxpayer handouts every year, because if their profits drop too much, the free-market loving CEO’s are not happy.
And when the Oil Industry is not happy, Congress is not happy.
Explain handouts?The oil execs went to Congress if you remember, and shot down that very notion while at the same time hoisting them(congress) up by their own petards.Read how much those oil companies paid in taxes.