Univision anchor: Mitt Romney made demands during UM appearance

[mfcorey1]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made several demands during his Wednesday appearance at the University of Miami forum sponsored by Spanish-language network Univision , according to the website BuzzFeed.

Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas told Buzzfeed that tickets for the “Meet the Candidate” forums were divided between the network, the respective campaigns and the UM.

“But after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus, the Romney camp realized there weren't enough sympathetic students to fill the stands on their night — so they told the network and university that if they weren't given an exemption to the students-only rule, they might have to "reschedule," the website said.

Romney’s campaign then bused in activists to fill the seats.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/23/3017243/univision-anchor-mitt-romney-made.html

[avebury]

1. Univision should not have caved to

Romney's demand. Univision should have given Romney a choice: 1) Participate in the forum based upon the agreed rules or 2) leave. If Romney left, then Univision would have no choice but to go ahead with Romney's time slot using an empty chair and tell the audience that Romney refused to participate. They should then have been straight up with reporting Romney's various temper tantrum (i.e. tape a new intro, let Romney pack the empty seats, etc.). They could have then filled the segment with a discussion of Romney's behavior and playing various clips of him on tour, etc.

All they had to do was look him in the eye and ask him how he thought his campaign would look if he walked out and they filled his time slot with an empty chair.

[Ganja Ninja]

18. What they should have done was tell their viewers Romney threatend to cancel if ...

he couldn't pack the house with his supporters and explained just how many were bused in, all while Romney sat there grinning.

[bulloney]

2. And the media gerbils want you to believe this is a close race.

Throughout the entire campaign, Obama has spoken to full houses or open areas with tens of thousands in attendance. Romney plays before several dozen or a few hundred and he has to rent a lot of them out to just show up.

Having said that, I'm still wary of all of the money the Romney camp will have going for it and know that the nazis are doing everything to restrict voting rights in several key states.

[Cosmocat]

8. Imagine the media if this had been a democrat

who had to have bodies bused in to fill that event ...

[oberliner]

3. Ridiculous

They should not have bended the rules to accommodate him.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Someone in Romney's campaign probably hinted at consequences for not

cooperating *after* Romney is president. FCC and IRS and stuff. And Univision folded.

[liberal N proud]

5. I find it telling that there weren't enough sympathetic students to fill the stands.

That does not bode well for Romney.

[Native]

14. according to the article, the station had to scramble to fill seats for Obama

difference being, Obama's audience was respectful and didn't treat the interview like a freakin' rally!

[justiceischeap]

6. For all stating Univision shouldn't have caved

If they hadn't caved, the story would be about Univision, not RMoney. Now the story is about RMoney acting entitled and like an asshole. It plays better as a story that they cooperated.

[avebury]

7. And how do you think Romney would look if Univision

did not cave to his demands? Continuing on with an empty chair on the stage and detailing Romney's various temper tantrum would not have made Romney look good. Most reasonable independents and middle of the road voters already have a good idea of Romney's true personality by now.

[reformist2]

9. Having Mitt show up in "brownface" made it all worth it.

All's well that ends well.

[fasttense]

10. If you can't bet them,

fake it, or in other words - use your stolen loot to make it look like you are beating them.

[lunatica]

13. Well if we're hearing about it don't you suppose they're broadcasting it?

[lunatica]

16. So how did you and the rest of us hear about it?

Telepathy? Magic Underwear?

[lunatica]

12. I think Univision and the anchors are to be commended for telling us this story

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which is more than the English speaking only media do.

And you can bet that if we're hearing about it that all Spanish speaking people are too.

edited to change US media to English Speaking media because they're all US media.