Yikes! We need Open Thread fodder!
As if you would need a reason to not read Politico, here is another one: a Politico reporter gets canned for telling someone on MSNBC that Mitt Romney is more comfortable around white people. How do you get fired for making an observation that pretty much everybody will make:
Williams noted that Romney’s preference for Fox & Friends, and similarly partisan settings, was interesting because it was “unscripted and it’s the only time they let Mitt off the leash.”He made the point that for Romeny to be successful he needs to broaden the range of people with whom he interacts.
Williams: Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him. That’s one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in some town hall settings, why he can’t relate to people other than that. But when he comes on Fox and Friends, they’re like him, they’re white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.
Forgot. It is a firing offense for political reporters to tell the truth about conservatives.
More reasons why you shouldn’t read Politico — they are paranoid and they maintain a Hunger Games atmosphere over there. That seems to be a couple of the takeaways from a Huffington Post magazine piece (you have to pay for the app to see it) summarized in this Capital New York piece.
And here’s the Question of the Year:
What interests you today?