As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Mitt Romney’s been maintaining a secret Twitter account, “Pierre Delecto.” And that’s got CNN’s Chris Cillizza to thinking:
Think about this:
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee — and a sitting US senator! — felt the need to defend his commitment to his party from behind the veneer of a fake person's account on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/E18jKD19qh
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 21, 2019
Yeah, just think about it!
Okay.
There, I thought about it. https://t.co/cLvkXUFVy6
— Huell Babineaux did nothing wrong (@jtLOL) October 21, 2019
ok, I thought about it and deemed it one of the less strange things on this poop site https://t.co/u82zZWKtdG
— cc (@cc_fla) October 21, 2019
The Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams is thinking about it, too. And his explanation actually makes a lot of sense, if you think about it:
probably because, unlike the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, he does not have an army of journalists to do it for him. https://t.co/Z5svBCqoLG
— ???? ?????? ????? (@BecketAdams) October 21, 2019
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True story.
— The Rabid Cat (@battlecat847) October 21, 2019
Journalists’ fondness for Mitt Romney is quite new. But they’ve been running interference for Democrats for years.
speaking of which, are we going to talk more about Clinton falsely claiming (again) she lost Wisc because of voter suppression? maybe a little more time for the 2016 candidate disputing the results of a national election? or we going to keep after Romney's sock puppet account?
— ???? ?????? ????? (@BecketAdams) October 21, 2019
Media firefighters like Chris Cillizza know where their bread is buttered. Don’t count on their appetites to change.