When Cory Booker talks about helping out fellow citizens, we get thousands of column inches about his heroics with no media interest in embellishments. When Mitt Romney’s son Josh tweets a pic that shows him standing next to the mangled wreck from which he says he rescued four people, we get this:
https://twitter.com/MariaLiaCalvo/statuses/406475626560770049
Obviously no one would ever use social media to share a cool story about helping people out.
God bless my residents. Pulled up on pedestrian/vehicle accident. We got man stabilized & into ambulance. He'll b OK. Thanx 2 all who helped
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 22, 2012
Romney didn’t exactly get the Super Booker treatment.
https://twitter.com/RobertRufa/status/406466096112205824
@joshromney @gretawire
Why the smiling pose at bad ax site?
Many help people everyday w/o this type publicity, disappointed.— Lin Carpenter (@TNVOLINFL) November 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/jujufresh12/status/406468315993739264
.@joshromney @hypervocal sure you were, didn't Zimmerman try that same story a month ago?
— Captain Steve Rogers (@CaptainSRogers) November 29, 2013
Okay, I get that nobody was hurt, but the impulse to pose for a photo here is still weird on like 3 or 4 levels: http://t.co/dRc2KZg1E5
— Chase Woodruff (@dcwoodruff) November 29, 2013
.@joshromney is a hero, according to @joshromney http://t.co/mfpPnV6rix
— Hunter Stuart (@Hoont) November 29, 2013
Stay humble, @joshromney.
— Okay, Michele (@norskieMN) November 29, 2013
@joshromney @gretawire and then you took and posted a smiley tourist-type photo of it? Bit odd.
— Bill Clarke (@billclarke2) November 29, 2013
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https://twitter.com/sherifffruitfly/status/406472421177188352
what kind of a megalomaniac would tweet this? never mind. it's a romney. https://t.co/skIijftwtd
— k8 (@rolling_2) November 29, 2013
Also, Josh Romney is a douche prick.
— Leah✨BoBeah (@leahmrb) November 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/griffitn/status/406468550334111744
Could it be that he’s smiling because, as he tweeted, he’s “thankful” that the four people are OK?
How many Romney-bashers people would simply do this?
@joshromney Good for you, too many people would simply drive by.
— Andy Richardson (@arich310) November 29, 2013
Flashback:
This is not first time @joshromney has come to the rescue. Mitt & sons saved family after their boat sank in NH: http://t.co/ZbXsGtqx7I
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) November 29, 2013