Has The Background Story Behind Myth Romney's Phony "Relief" Debacle Been Reported By Any MSM Yet?

[Turborama]

After a quick search, I can only see it's on Salon, Think Progress, Daily Kos and, of course, here.

If it was reported by the likes of ABC, NBC, CBS et al, the real contrast between the Conman in Chief:




And the Comforter in Chief:

Would be so stark and obvious that we could be talking a 1936 style landslide this time next week.

[former-republican]

1. .

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/5000-shopping-run-walmart-turned-romneys-campaign-stop-relief-event/58529/

[k8conant]

2. I only heard it on The Last Word with Laurence O'Donnell

but I haven't been listening on other stations.

I see a lot of references at various websites when I Googled "$5000 Walmart Romney".

[Blue Owl]

3. As far as they're concerned it was real and genuine

The CNN gold standard of excellence lives on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Rachel maddow

[bama_blue_dot]

5. Martin Bashir

was the first to report it today, I think..

[mucifer]

6. Even without the backstory rmoney looks pathetic moving around cans.

[BainsBane]

7. Fox is still covering Libya

It's all they talk about. Pigs.

[Turborama]

8. Anyone know the kind of distribution the Cleveland Leader gets?

Mitt Romney Staged His Own "Relief Rally" By Buying $5,000 Worth of Donation Props

By Julie Kent. Published on 10/31/2012 - 6:32pm


Mitt Romney accepts "donations" that his campaign purchased and had people pretend to donate for photos.



While President Obama made the decision to cancel scheduled campaign appearances this week in light of the disaster that Hurricane Sandy has brought to New York City, New Jersey, and a number of other states, including the key battleground state of Ohio, Mitt Romney just couldn't pull the plug. Instead of doing the respectful thing and canceling his campaign appearance on Tuesday, just after Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, the Republican presidential candidate decided to re-brand his "Victory Rally" and call it "Relief Rally" instead.

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What makes it all even more ridiculous is the fact that the Red Cross didn't even want the items that Romney's campaign collected. They'd have been better served with a $5,000 donations. Of course that wouldn't be as nice of a photo op as standing by a table overflowing with canned goods.

As for the actual content of the "relief" rally, it was more like a regular campaign rally, or a "Victory Rally" as the Romney campaign likes to call them. There was a brief obligatory mention of the devastation that Hurricane Sandy left when it made landfall on the East Coast, but otherwise, it was business as usual.

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It wasn't a relief rally. It was a pathetic photo op on par with his running mate Paul Ryan's soup kitchen fiasco. You know, the one where Ryan showed up to an Ohio soup kitchen after all the needy had been fed and left and pretended to wash pans that were already clean. That was all a photo op too - there was no one to be fed and no dishes to be washed.


Full article: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19290

Some stupid trolls coming out to defend Myth in the comments, they do get pounced on, though.