Did Romney make a bad PR move?
Rachel Maddow talks about the Romney campaign's decision to hire lobbyist Michele Davis to help craft a political response to the attacks on the GOP presidential candidate's time at Bain Capital. Davis previously helped BP "fix" their image after the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf and was a lobbyist for Fannie Mae, the corporation whose failure, Mitt Romney claims destroyed the economy.
"Mitt Romney has hired the lead person from Brunswick who was in charge of cleaning up the BP image disaster so she can apply the same cleanup skills to his career at Bain Capital. Why is this okay? I mean, it's not even why is this okay for Mitt Romney to do this. Maybe the most important part for Mitt Romney here is he sees his career at Bain Capital not as an asset but akin to the BP oil spill in terms of how it needs to be managed for the P.R. effect. That's Romney. But more broadly, why is it okay to team up with, to bring out the corporate clean up my image disaster mercenary memory hole-diggers and bring them into our politics? Why is it okay for politicians to pull that most morally repellant, indefensible thing out of American corporate culture and put it what is supposed to be the arena of public service?"
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