Former Gingrich Adviser Schools Martin Bashir: Romney's Not a Bully - Obama Is
When MSNBC's Martin Bashir invited Rick Tyler on his program Friday to discuss Mitt Romney being a "bully," he must have expected the former Newt Gingrich campaign adviser would play right along with the profile depicted in the Washington Post's hit piece about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Quite the contrary, Tyler didn't take the bait and instead turned the tables on his host saying, "I would consider things like Barack Obama bullying the Supreme Court, bullying the EPA, bullying hundreds of property owners and business owners, bullying donors to the Romney campaign. That’s what bullying is" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MARTIN BASHIR, HOST: Would you say that your candidate was in effect bullied as he approached that primary?
RICK TYLER, FORMER NEWT GINGRICH CAMPAIGN ADVISER: No, look, I don’t think what Mitt Romney did at Cranbrook has really any relevance to what happened today.
BASHIR: I’m not talking about Cranbrook, Mr. Tyler, I’m talking about what happened to your candidate before the primary in Florida where you yourself have just said you could not believe the ferocity of the attacks. What I’m saying to you is did that feel as though your candidate was being bullied during that primary?
TYLER: No, I wouldn’t consider it bullying. I would consider things like Barack Obama bullying the Supreme Court, bullying the EPA, bullying hundreds of property owners and business owners, bullying donors to the Romney campaign. That’s what bullying is when they have an effect on private citizens not people running against them but people who disagree with them politically. That’s bullying!
BASHIR: Okay, Mr. Tyler, you’re obviously still very loyal to Mr. Romney.
Bashir was clearly rattled by Tyler's answer for he obviously forgot his guest used to work for Gingrich and against Romney.
Maybe someone ought to teach him that you should never ask your opponent a question you don't already know the answer to for he or she just might make a fool out of you.
Of course, with Bashir at the helm, that's not very difficult.
Still, one can now see how some of the Obama-loving media are going to use the Post's hit piece against Romney with the goal clearly to connect his alleged bullying as a high school student to how he campaigns.
They must think they can then somehow engender sympathy for the current White House resident despite him being the incumbent who enjoys enthusiastic support from the press and the entertainment industry.
Anything to get him reelected regardless of how idiotic I suppose.
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See folks,
Submitted by P. Aaron on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 4:24pm.
It's this easy to make the media look like fools.
I love it!!!
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 4:28pm.
This is what we need to do, control the message. Snarky little put down about loyalty there, instead of dealing with the truth of what was said.
And Tyler's response to the ever rude Bashir
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 4:29pm.
Bashir spewed (confused, as Noel pointed out): Okay, Mr. Tyler, you’re obviously still very loyal to Mr. Romney
Tyler should have said: Well, Mr. Bashir, you're obviously still very very loyal to Barak Obama.
(;~/ gary
Oh I wish he would have said
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 4:40pm.
Oh I wish he would have said that, but it is much harder to come up with stuff in realtime conversations then when you are reading and commenting on a blog. Still, good answer!
I know what you mean. I have the NewsBuster's bumper...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:38am.
sticker on my pickup truck that says "I don't believe the liberal media!"
Some guy was walking by as I got out of my truck and he asked me, "What is a Liberal?" The best I could come up with on such short notice was "Look in the mirror!"
Thinking about it later I wish I had said "A liberal believes government is God and a conservative believes God is God!"
Please feel free to reply with your own responses to such a question. Thank you.
jawebster1
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 6:24am.
That would be a good answer.
Another (I think) would be: 'A liberal believes government, through taxation and regulation, is the solution and free men are the problem.'
I'm sure someone else here can come up with something more succinct.
A liberal is someone...
Submitted by CJohnson on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:53am.
... who believes the liberal media.
His mike was probably cut off so he didn't have a chance...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:26am.
to state the obvious.
Following on Tamron Hall's hissy fit, bad day for lib reporters!
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 4:38pm.
Between Martin "Taqiyya" Bashir and Tamron "Missy Hissy" Hall, they are having a bad, bad day. None of the conservatives are falling for their bullcrap and the mainstream media is getting a taste of its own medicine. As usual, that taste is bitter and they are complaining about what they have made.
Perhaps I am overly optimistic, but I hope this signals the beginning of a highly coordinated campaign on the part of the GOP to show exactly how the vast, overwhelming majority of the main stream media are in bed with Obama's re-election campaign and to stop cold the boring and infantile diversionary tactics the MSM is employing to hide Obama's incompetence and malignant narcissism. I would hope the GOP will finally sit down, forget all of that primary rancor and plot out a strategy that shows the media for what it is--nothing more than a privately financed propaganda ministry for the Obama administration.
I never heard of Tamron Hall untril I read about her today...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:23am.
on NewsBusters. Thanks to NewsBusters we have now heard of Tampon, err...Tamron Hall.
Thanks, but no thanks NewsBusters!
P.S. With a name like that, I bet she was bullied in school.
He should have prefaced it "
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 5:03pm.
He should have prefaced it " I'm only going to explain this once idiot".
Yep the tide is changing for sure
Submitted by I hate marxists on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 5:09pm.
The Libs know that they're at the end of the rope. Let them continue to try to spin and they will definitely crash and burn.
The Libs are done like a roasted turkey
They Oughtta Know
Submitted by sergeant stogie on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 5:16pm.
"Progressives" are the biggest bullies ever.
Hee hee
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 5:30pm.
Once the liberal punditocracy gets off their talking points, they're lost, as evidenced by Bashir's little oops.
I love it. I only hope that Mitt, his surrogates, and the former candidates have strategy meetings, daily, and are all singing off the same sheet of music. Because it's obvious to me that the democrats are....and they are plainly trying to divide and conquer.
Plain as the nose on Bashir's face.
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Great clip
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 6:22pm.
Loved it. They really think "bully" is going to stick? Romney just needs to keep talking jobs jobs jobs.
Define bullying
Submitted by CJohnson on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 7:11pm.
Each time a libtard uses that wrong word trick, deploy an 'I don't think you know what that word means'.
It shows the class in the Gingrich campaign
Submitted by T D on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 7:54pm.
that Rick Tyler refused an easy payback for some of the nastiness in the primary campaign.
Bashir tells the Gingrich guy that he is still obviously loyal..
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:16am.
to Romney after the Gingrich guy listed instances of bullying by the President.
Bashir is obviously loyal to the President. Wow! What a surprise.
Attention Mr. Bashir, if you're going to have a Republican on your show, even if he opposed the eventual nominee in the primary, he is going to be for the Republican nominee.
Why you ask? Because Obama is the worst President that we have ever had in our Country's entire history. He makes James Buchanan look like Abraham Lincoln in comparison.