As November draws nearer, we approach the time of the year where the most muck is raked and journalism yellows.
The latest dirt: teenaged Mitt Romney used to impersonate police officers. According to the original article by Kyle Roerink of The National Memo, “When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer…And he had the uniform on display as proof.”
While this story may be true, it is not reported objectively. Using charged words like “fetish” and “sick,” O’Donnell uses a story based on hearsay to challenge Romney’s integrity. Without police reports or pictures or written records, it verges on defamation. At least wait for the hard evidence on which to base the claims as Stanley Kurtz did to shed light on Obama’s ties to a leftist party in the 1990s.