{"id":2050,"date":"2012-08-08T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/romney-cnn-and-bain-capital\/"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:11:56","slug":"romney-cnn-and-bain-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/politics\/romney-cnn-and-bain-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney, CNN and Bain Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/07\/ad-linking-romney-to-death-of-the-wife-of-a-laid-off-steelworker-not-accurate\/?iref=allsearch\">this<\/a> article by Brianna Keilar at CNN I submitted this comment:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Romney stopped his day-to-day oversight at Bain Capital in 1999 when he left to run the Salt Lake City Olympics, though he officially remained CEO until 2002.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>How do you get a CEO job where you do not have to do anything and you are not responsible for anything that happens on your &#8216;CEO watch&#8217;?  There is clearly a right wing bias in this story.  This tacit assumption takes Mitt&#8217;s rationalization as fact.  What happened to critical journalism?  As &#8220;Chief Executive Officer&#8221; you are chiefly responsible for executive decisions, right?&#8230;.even if you would prefer to blame others for bad decisions, the buck stops with you&#8230;unless you are Romney or Bush &#8211; then you get special dispensation with special meanings to words that reporters should just parrot as fact!\n<\/p>\n<p>CNN censored this comment.  I do not want to believe they normally do such things on comments like this but it is a bit disturbing and Rush Limbaugh-like.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading this article by Brianna Keilar at CNN I submitted this comment: &#8220;Romney stopped his day-to-day oversight at Bain Capital in 1999 when he left to run the Salt Lake City Olympics, though he officially remained CEO until 2002.&#8221; How do you get a CEO job where you do not have to do anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}