Our political Quote — it must be — of the Century was created today by presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who again shows what happens when he talks seriously off script. When asked about his past statements on Fox News he said this:
ROMNEY: I’m actually gonna — I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was. I’ll go back and take a look at what was said there.
I stand by my previous posts on Mitt Romney. I’m not familiar with exactly what I wrote, but I stand by what I wrote, whatever it was. I’ll go back and take a look at what wast posted here.
Whatever…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.