Romney Campaign Forbids Local Reporter From Asking About Akin, Abortion (updated)

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Romney Campaign Forbids Local Reporter From Asking About Akin, Abortion

Evan McMorris-Santoro

Denver TV reporter Shaun Boyd wanted to ask Mitt Romney about Todd Akin and the abortion controversy roiling the GOP Thursday. But the Romney campaign refused.

In a broadcast on Thursday, Boyd revealed the Romney campaign’s demand that she not ask about Akin. The Obama campaign quickly posted the video online and sent it to reporters:

Boyd told TPM that the Romney campaign offered her station an interview with Romney, one of several local news hits in swing states that Romney conducted via satellite Thursday. A campaign staffer whose name she didn’t divulge told her what questions she wasn’t allowed to ask.

“They said, you know, ‘the only stipulation is we don’t want you talking about the Akin issue,’” Boyd recalled. She also said the Romney staffer told her the campaign didn’t want questions for Romney about ‘the whole abortion controversy.’”

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-no-questions-about-akin.php

Wonder why?

Updated to add:

Interviews with strings attached

By Steve Benen

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The problem, of course, is that Romney feels the need to deem the subjects off-limits in the first place. It's not like Akin and abortion rights are some obscure trivia with no bearing on the presidential campaign -- this is now a major topic of national conversation.

1. Does Romney agree with his own party platform on a federal ban on all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest?

2. Did Romney meet late last year with a controversial doctor who believes rape victims can't get pregnant?

3. Does Romney agree with the 38 anti-abortion bills introduced by his own running mate, including one that redefines rape as it relates to Medicaid funding?

4. Does Romney still agree with what he said in 2007 when he boasted that that he'd be "delighted" to sign a bill that would no longer allow abortions "at all, period"?

5. Does Romney stand by what he said to Mike Huckabee during the primaries, when he said he "absolutely" supports a "Personhood" measure that would ban abortion and some forms of birth control?

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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/23/13439362-interviews-with-strings-attached

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1. Kick! n/t

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2. Another. n/t

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3. Every M$M news outlet should refuse to air any interviews.

See. Simple.

Used to be the media asked the questions the public wanted to hear not the interviewee telling the media what to ask or not ask.