A July campaign story [1]
by CNN's Jim Acosta was so biased that the Obama campaign trumpeted the
headline in its new attack ad. That came after MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell cried foul [2]
over the campaign using footage of her in its ads, perhaps telling
evidence of the role the liberal media is playing in this campaign by
providing fodder for Obama.
Back in July, Acosta hyped that Mitt Romney's overseas trip to Europe
began in "shambles" even though CNN hosts Piers Morgan and Fareed
Zakaria threw water [3]
on that sentiment. Team Obama now has featured Acosta's story to cast
aspersions on Romney's foreign policy credentials.
[Video below. Audio here [4].]
"Romney Trip Begins In Shambles," read Acosta's headline. He cited the
infamous liberal British press defaming Romney as a "party pooper" and
"Mitt the Twit" for simply expressing concern about the "disconcerting"
state of London security at the Olympics.
What was the source for Acosta's headline? The Twitter hashtag
"#RomneyShambles," which apparently was "trending on both sides of the
Atlantic."
Even
British CNN host Piers Morgan called the media outrage "a bit of a fuss
about nothing." Foreign affairs reporter Fareed Zakaria said the media
was "making more of this than it deserves to be."
During this same overseas trip, the campaign press corps jumped all
over Romney's supposed "gaffes." The frenzy culminated with a Romney
aide ripping into the media after they basically heckled Romney about
his gaffes outside a Polish shrine. Acosta lamely offered [5] that his outburst was "sort of" "unprovoked" after reporters shouted "questions" like "What about your gaffes?"