Fox News “shilling” for Mitt Romney? Not exactly.
Rick Santorum, himself a former Fox News contributor, protested the network’s supposed preference for the GOP frontrunner in a radio appearance Tuesday, but Romney was visibly uncomfortable when questioned on Megyn Kelly’s show Wednesday. The host confronted Romney with a video clip from 2008 in which he says, “No, no, I like mandates” after being asked whether he “backed away from mandates on a national basis.”
Romney offered a tepid defense of himself, mostly by retreading ground he has covered throughout this campaign: No, he said, I don’t favor imposing the Massachusetts health care law on the rest of the nation. Yes, he said, I will immediately destroy the existing national health care law that was based on my Massachusetts plan once I get into the White House.
Standard stuff, but Romney looked very uncomfortable when confronted with the old clip, and he never really refuted it.
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Kelly did, at least, let Romney get cut off by a break while he was awkwardly squirming in response to the 2008 clip.
