Posted by
Phil E. on Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:50:57 AM
No Thanx, News-max.
It shouldn't be a beauty contest.
But they're making it one.
Silly NewsMax
For some reason, Mr. Ronald Kessler (always billed as "chief Washington correspondent of NewsMax") is enamored—no, make that "infatuated," as in "in love"—with Mitt Romney. In this, he's actually
worse than Hugh Hewitt.
Like Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Kessler has written his share of Mitt Romney puff pieces.
One wonders if Mr. Kessler is LDS (Mormon), he's so biased toward Mitt Romney. But I can't find anything on the web to hint at that. I'm not sure why he's so biased. Maybe a kickback? Maybe his wife is LDS?
The latest puff piece from Mr. Kessler echoes my last post, following on the heels of The Drudge Report headline wondering if Senator McCain might choose Mitt Romney for his Veep.
Mr. Kessler quotes someone named Andy Card, both trying to tell us why Mitt Romney would be a good Vice President. (If you click the link, you'll see the origin of my parody NewsMax Romney cover.)
Interestingly, Mr. Card admits
he doesn't expect that Romney would deliver the electoral college vote from Massachusetts... !
Oh. Like Al Gore and Tennessee? Brilliant!
April Fool!
I first noticed this irrational NewsMax bias in an April 1, 2007 article titled "
Romney to the Rescue." (No fooling
on the date! God
has a wry sense of humor, doesn't He?)
Among other things, this highly scholarly article (NOT!) about Mitt Romney mentions his hair.
First, he has sensational good looks. People magazine named him one of the 50 most beautiful people in America. Standing 6 feet, 2 inches tall, Romney has jet-black hair, graying naturally at the temples. Women - who will play a critical role in this coming election - have a word for him: hot.
One has to wonder about Mr. Kessler's "sexual orientation." I, as a normal man, do not notice the hair of other men (unless they're a lot older than I am and have a lot more). I do not notice their looks or whether women consider them "hot." (It's hard enough understanding women, let alone knowing what they consider "hot.")
Cool Conservative or Loonie Liberal?
This obsession about Mitt Romney's hair is silly. It's as silly as when Mr. Mark Leibovich
wrote about Tom Daschle's "morning-fresh pompadour of excellent brown hair." You probably laughed at that. So you should be laughing at the same comments about Mitt Romney.
Again, I have to wonder about Mr. Leibovich's "sexual orientation" for him to be obsessed, let alone even notice, Tom Daschle's hair. Let alone think it's important to report. (But what do I know? I'm not good enough to be a "Journalist.")
But wait! There's more!
I remember when NewsMax first started advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show. By associating with Rush, the implication was that it was Conservative. But here's more silliness from NewsMax about Ann Romney. This from
The Carpetbagger Report.
But Ben Smith (Politico) noted yesterday that NewsMax wrote a profile about Ann Romney, Mitt's wife, that is so remarkably over-the-top, one almost wonders if it's a joke. Alas, it isn't.
"Ann is warm and very natural. She has the look of an outdoors woman bred to be an equestrian, which she is — good carriage, rosy complexion, square jaw, and blond mane.
"When she is not flashing her truly unbelievable smile, she may lower her eyes demurely. But Ann Romney is not demure — she may be modest, but she isn't meek. She is unpretentious, but she isn't shy. She lowers her eyes, thinking, and then looks up directly at her interviewer and dazzles him with that smile."
Smith noted, "I think I've never seen writing, in a publication apparently written by and for grown-ups, like this passage." Agreed. There's flattery, there's sycophancy, and then there's this. It's truly breathtaking.
But here's the kicker.
But let's delve a little deeper. First, its worth noting that NewsMax was apparently humiliated for having published such tripe. Less than a day after running the profile on its site, NewsMax gave it a little touch-up. Without alerting readers to the fact that the article had been changed, the publication apparently removed most of the passage, including all of the adjectives. The reader no longer sees anything about Ann Romney's carriage, complexion, jaw, hair, or "truly unbelievable smile." (As a rule, its unethical to make substantive changes like this without alerting readers.)
I couldn't have said it any better. That's why I quoted them.
Don't forget that in Mormonism, Ann Romney
HAS to be the perfect Stepford Wife. If she isn't, she might be DOA in the next life. It's up to Mitt to call her up from the Mormon resurrection.
Love is blind
This is akin to Hugh Hewitt's "hagiography" of Mitt Romney. (Per Publisher's Weekly review of
Mr. Hewitt's book on Amazon.) Mr. Hewitt has talked about Mitt Romney's hair too, but I don't think even he got this silly. (Although I never read the book. Maybe he did?).
Now, I hate to say Hillary was right, but
I've learned from my blogging experience here that there is indeed a "vast right wing conspiracy" in the so-called "Conservative" side of the media. Some people "on the right" are just as bad as Carville on the Left. And just as double minded and hypocritical. They have an agenda and facts don't matter. They want Romney in office and will say and do anything to accomplish that goal.. Despite being soundly rejected by us (despite his 40 million dollar investment, trying to buy the election), they're trying the back door to break in. Don't fall for it.
[While I have always admitted to having an agenda here (just look at my masthead and my very first post), I have always been diligent to present facts about Mitt Romney and Mormonism. The facts why you don't want a Mormon in the White House. The White House includes the Vice Presidency, where Mitt Romney could really be a heartbeat away from fulfilling
Mormon prophecy.
]
So it's not over yet. If you're a child of God (
and most people are NOT), then, for the sake our our country, please keep praying that Senator McCain does not alienate the base by yoking himself with Mitt Romney. While I don't expect that Conservatives would vote for Hillary or Obama if Mitt Romney were on Senator McCain's ticket, I expect many of us would simply not vote for-and could not vote for-a Mormon as heir to our President.
Before you claim "Anti-Mormon" bigotry, be advised that Michael Medved said, on his program today, that Mormons would not vote if Mike Huckahee were Senator McCain's choice.
Hugh Hewitt has said same. Anti-Christian bigotry?
While Mormons generally vote as a block (but don't you dare say they're in a cult), there are more Christians than there are Mormons.
The Mormon church claims 13 million members,
give or take a million. But they count 8 year olds
as members when they're indoctrinated (baptized), and, some say, they even count babies "born under the covenant." (i.e. babies born into Mormon families.) How many of their number are of voting age? Who really knows?
The Mormon church knows, but it's not telling.
A dispassionate analysis indicates Mike Huckabee the better choice if Senator McCain wants to win states, as Mike Huckabee's previous track record against Mitt Romney proves.