ABC Highlights Crank Shouting at Romney: 'Will You Fire the Baby?'

Brent Baker | January 10, 2012
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ABC on Tuesday night decided to showcase one guy yelling at Mitt Romney, as if it proved how media-liberal distortions of Mitt Romney’s “I like to fire people” remark will surely hurt him and follow him to South Carolina. Reporter David Muir showed video of Romney, in the middle of a crowd, holding a baby.

“But if you rewind the tape and play up the sound,” Muir explained from Manchester in setting up a re-play. Viewers then heard the voice of one man shouting: “Are you going to fire the baby? Are you going to fire the baby?” ABC helpfully put those words on screen.

Muir contended “these are words that are going to follow Mitt Romney beyond New Hampshire right into South Carolina” where “the jobs picture” is “even worse.”

Cross-posted on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.