"Mitt Romney, whose 1950s manner and celebratory drink of choice call to mind a milkshake man more than a rap singer, gave a shout out Monday that left no doubt that he had spent little time listening to hip-hop." But the Times missed the priceless picture of Bill Clinton snoozing during a Martin Luther King tribute.
January 22, 2008 - 11:24am
Reporters Michael Powell and Sarah Wheaton devoted an entire
story to making fun of a Republican in Tuesday's "Romney Waxes Lyrical at a Holiday Parade in Florida ."
"Mitt Romney, whose 1950s
manner and celebratory drink of choice call to mind a milkshake man more than a
rap singer, gave a shout out Monday that left no doubt that he had spent little
time listening to hip-hop.
"Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate from Massachusetts by way of Michigan
and Utah who
enjoys a milkshake at the end of a long day, stopped by a staging area for a Martin
Luther King Birthday parade here. In his dress shirt and tie, and with his
unwavering smile, he walked over and posed for photographs with a group of
black youngsters. Putting his arm around a teenage girl, he waved to the
cameras and offered, 'Who let the dogs out?' He added a tepid 'woof woof.'
"Somewhere, the Baha Men, the Bahamian group
whose 2000 song the candidate was referencing, must have been shuddering."
While the Times had fun with the stiff Romney, it didn't spare any room for the image of a sleeping Bill Clinton at a Martin Luther King event at a Harlem church.
