{"id":954,"date":"2012-09-19T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/19\/the-walls-have-ears"},"modified":"2012-09-19T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T23:46:00","slug":"the-walls-have-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"The walls have ears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mitt Romney has been bitten by that 21st-century monster called \u201cinstant telecommunication.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know how it works. People in public life say things intended for only a privileged few, but someone in a room has a \u201csmart phone\u201d with a camera and an audio recorder. He or she captures the statements of the public person, and then leaks it to the media, who then blast it all over the planet. The intent is to embarrass the public person. And boy howdy, it worked in the latest case of Romney speaking from the heart.<\/p>\n

He told a roomful of rich campaign donors that 47 percent of the electorate will vote for President Obama no matter what he (Romney) says. They consider themselves \u201cvictims,\u201d the GOP presidential candidate said. They believe they are \u201centitled\u201d to government services and, in effect, don\u2019t feel the need to \u201ctake responsibility\u201d for their plight.<\/p>\n

Thus, Romney has lumped tens of millions of Americans under a single canopy, ignoring the circumstances that might have caused many of them to seek government assistance in the first place. Bad call, Mitt, especially when you declare to the donors that you don\u2019t really care about the 47 percent of voters who you\u2019ve lost.<\/p>\n

Lesson to Mitt? Every single utterance is subjected to this kind of surveillance. Romney\u2019s response that his words were spoken \u201cinelegantly\u201d doesn\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n

In this age of instant communication, Gov. Romney, you\u2019d better be on your elegant best behavior at all times. Then again, these moments of candor do reveal the true makeup of what\u2019s in a candidate\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n\n

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Mitt Romney has been bitten by that 21st-century monster called \u201cinstant telecommunication.\u201d You know how it works. People in public life say things intended for only a privileged few, but someone in a room has a \u201csmart phone\u201d with a camera and an audio recorder. He or she captures the statements of the public person, … Continue reading The walls have ears<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}