September 4, 2007
George Romney’s Interview Posted by Alexander Burns at 03:35 PM EST Readers who enjoyed Joshua Zeitz’s feature today on George Romney’s ill-fated presidential campaign might be interested to see a video of the interview in which Romney blundered into his comment about “brainwashing.” It’s available here , where it was posted by the Boston Globe in connection with a serial profile of George Romney’s son, Mitt. One installment of that series focused on the relationship between the governors Romney and contains both a sympathetic portrait of the father and a studied analysis of the son. The video of Romney’s interview works better on some Internet browsers than on others, but for those who can watch it, it’s startling to see just how benign Romney’s remark was. It seems pretty obvious that he wasn’t using the word “brainwashing” in any literal sense. As Mr. Zeitz’s article indicates, that didn’t stop the press and the public from pulling the man’s campaign apart at the seams.
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