Newsmax’s Ronald Kessler finally gets to do his Romney-fluffing one-on-one with a Oct. 12 interview with Mitt Romney.
In the 11-minute video of the interview attached to the article, Kessler tosses softball after softball to Romney, heavy on “somebody did this, what’s your reaction” type of questions that prompts Romney to spout his usual talking points. These are hardly the kind of challenging questions one expects from someone who purports to be a journalist, though is exactly the kind of question one expects of a Romney sycophant.
Sample question from Kessler:
Ann Romney mentioned to me that when you are at Bain Capital, you almost never brought work home because you were devoted to your family, you wanted to spend time with your kids. Looking back, I wish I had been that way as a father. That’s pretty remarkable, and I wonder how that translates into a desire to strengthen families, what you would do in that regard.
It’s unclear when the interview was conducted (it appears to have been on Oct. 12 because Romney referenced the vice presidential debate “last night”), but at one point Kessler said to Romney that “wholesale gasoline prices went up again today.” But gas prices have been trending down for the past month.