Mitt Romney’s handling of events in Libya and Egypt backfired in a big way. How will the Republican campaign and its allies put this behind them? By blaming news organizations and media professionals who were bothered by his dishonest incompetence.
As Mitt Romney finishes his second week of dismal news coverage — with slipping polls and a combustible international crisis driving the narrative that the campaign is flailing — the campaign’s frustration with the media that covers it is approaching the boiling point. […]
[F]rustration is building behind the scenes, egged on by a conservative media and Twitter conversation that has blamed the media for accusing Romney of a premature response to the crises in Libya and Egypt.
To say that the right is coalescing around this anti-media argument would be an understatement. The Wall Street Journal editorial page, Ari Fleischer, Erick Erickson, John Podhoretz, Rich Lowry, Philip Klein, and others are all pushing a very similar line: the media has been unfair to Romney.
Ed Kilgore’s mockery rings true.









