New York Times on Mitt Romney: “Just Plain Bossy”

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Apparently “bossy” isn’t a bad word so long as it’s aimed at the right targets. (via Instapundit)

In a sneering article, the New York Times included just that description of Romney.

Some Mormons, like Mr. Clark, found Mr. Romney thoughtful and compassionate; one mother recalled his kindness to her dying son. Others, including a group of Mormon feminists demanding a greater role for women, found him condescending, doctrinaire or just plain bossy. He clashed with a married mother of four who sought to terminate a pregnancy; the incident made news years later, when Mr. Romney ran for United States Senate as a supporter of abortion rights — a position he has since abandoned.

“Mitt is the type who liked to be called Bishop Romney or President Romney,” said Judy Dushku, a professor of government at Suffolk University in Boston and a Mormon feminist leader. “He is very conscious of his place in the hierarchy, but not yours.”

Dushku is a radical political activist who became the media’s go-to person for hit pieces on Romney, none of which took off.

The “bossy” quote was not credited to any individual by the New York Times. And then the New York Times did it again with a Timothy Egan piece writing of Romney at a debate, “From there on, he grew increasingly bossy and impatient, whining about his allotted time and dodging questions with complaints about the order of the debate.”

Maureen Dowd jumped in to describe Republicans as inhabiting “the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys.”

  • A Z

    The NYT is considered a newspaper of record due to is circulation size, age, the fact that it the largest paper in the the largest metropolis of the U.S. or a combination of all the above.

    If that is all it takes, we must ask in the internet age if it is most of those things and whether it should be considered a newspaper of record or thee newspaper of record?

    • Crassus

      I’ve always considered the NYT to be the snot rag of record.

    • noacp

      The NYT is no different from most other “news” organizations in that they are the first line of defense for any and all liberal leaders. Objectivity in journalism is a joke, it’s virtually non-existent. They are propagandists more than anything else. They make the news rather than report the news. A very sad and ignoble profession. And those who believe they can make a difference and report objectively are quickly swallowed up or removed by the media machine which cares about ratings and partisanship above all else. You tow the line or you sink.

  • tagalog

    The New York Times reports that feminists find Mr. Romney bossy? Feminists? Interesting. I guess they’re not serious about that ban.

  • Crassus

    Memo to the NYT:

    You can quit attacking Romney now. Your boy Obamao has already won the election.

    • jb1111

      Dems are Marxists.

      Just read the quotes from Lenin !!

    • carpe diem 36

      but he lost a country.

  • Erudite Mavin

    NY times is scared of more reminders from the 2012 Pres. campaign from Romney that were spot on and dissed by Obama and his MSM such as:

    When Romney said are most geopolitical foe is Russia

    Obama’s snide ridiculing, of Mitt Romney’s now seeming prescient concern about Russia’s “geo-political” threat, during the October 22, 2012 presidential debate. “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the cold war has been over for 20 years,” Obama lectured.

    Romney’s retort to Obama: “Russia, I indicated, is a geopolitical foe…and I said in the same paragraph I said and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin.”

  • jakespoon

    Bossy vs dictatorial.

    • Maineiac

      I agree that Obama is not bossy. Just ask his friend Vlad.

  • JaneSmith100

    And Judy Dushku’s daughter is Eliza Dushku. Discover The Networks please note this.
    http://www.nndb.com/people/390/000032294/

  • v

    Anytime, I would prefer to have “BOSSY” than “DICTATOR”. Which is what we have now

    • carpe diem 36

      if Bossy means one is behaving as a boss should then give me a president who is really Bossy, right now we have a scarecrow for president.

  • Pete

    At least Romney is a leader. Which is more than anything we can say about anyone that’s in Washington today. What this country needs is a real leader. We lost that opportunity when we elected the mess we have in Washington today.

  • AZ WI

    Romney, you lost! The American people soundly and overwhelmingly rejected Romney and John McCain for the presidency not once but twice. Both you and McCain are just bitter sore losers!

    • carpe diem 36

      i hope you are happy with the way America and its President are now the laughing stock in the world.

      • AZ WI

        Truthfully comparing Obama to the wars and killings that a President McCain or Romney would of had. I’d have to say YES anyone was better than those two warmongers