Fox News Wants You To Think Romneys Are Not Elitists

In the second part of Fox News Sunday's Romney infomercial today, host Chris Wallace visited the entire Romney family in their home in New Hampshire (not the one in La Jolla with the $55,000 car elevator). Wallace seemed to really, really want us to think of them as regular folks: No maids! They love to shop at Costco! And Mitt Romney cooks!

Wallace led off by saying that one of Romney's biggest problems "is the perception, pushed by the Obama campaign" is that "he is out of touch and doesn't understand what many American families are going through."

So Wallace set about doing his best to convince you otherwise.

After showing us the outside of the beautiful, but not over-the-top house, we saw Mitt in his shirtsleeves helping his wife make "Mrs. Romney's trademark buttermilk pancakes. She prepares the batter. He cooks them."

Wallace pronounced them "sensational."

We got to see the "chore wheel" as Wallace explained that the kids "have to make their beds, brush their teeth and read scripture. The sons and their wives get to clean up."

Later, Wallace asked a "lightning round of 'in or out of touch' questions." But somehow they all seemed to have been designed with an "in" answer.

"Do you go to the grocery store?" Not only does he, he made dinner and did the shopping when Ann Romney was sick.

So much for lightning round. Wallace interjected, "Mrs. Romney, I noticed that there's no staff here. No cooks, no maids. Why not?"

"That's how we like it," she said, adding that she thought Mitt had ironed his own shirt that morning and she had seen him doing the laundry the night before. Color me cynical but I couldn't help but wonder if the staff had gotten the day off.

Then Wallace said casually to Ann Romney, "I also hear from my sources that you have an unhealthy attraction to Costco." Do you think one of those "sources" might be a Romney or Republican staffer?

Ann Romney giggled and said, "Oh, we both like Costco. I love Costco." She then told us her tips for shopping there.

Maybe they can get together with "Wal-Mart guy" Sean Hannity and have a shopping confab in Tampa!

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al in la commented 2012-09-16 23:15:06 -0400 · Flag

If only Wallace had said:

“There is a perception that you reflectively lie in an effort to convince people you ARE in touch with average Americans…So tell us then: What is the annual membership fee to shop at a Costco?…Governor? Mrs. Romney? You both look perplexed. Did you not hear the question?”

patrick tolle commented 2012-08-27 14:28:06 -0400 · Flag

@ Doors- I actually can see them with the Costco 64 pack.It would be very in keeping with the whole Mormon ethic of being stocked up and prepared assuming Bishop Rmoney is a devout practicing Mormon.I just seriously doubt they themselves went to Costco and bought it. Fux has a real unenviable chore on their hands if they’ve been tasked with humanizing the twit.

Richard Santalone commented 2012-08-27 13:54:04 -0400 · Flag

@doors17 Yes indeed, that trunk filled with the 64 roll package of toilet paper only underscores this point:

Ann Romney and her husband are both TOTALLY FULL OF S**T.

;^)

zaglossus commented 2012-08-27 12:33:48 -0400 · Flag

Ooh! I can’t wait to wrap my lips around Mrs. Romney’s “trademark buttermilk pancakes”.

doors17 commented 2012-08-27 12:23:00 -0400 · Flag

Yes, Iâm sure we can all visualize one of Ann Romneyâs two Cadillacâs trunk filled with the 64 roll package of toilet paper from Costco.

Bob Roberts commented 2012-08-27 11:58:51 -0400 · Flag

I would have expected that dreck from Greta Van SuckUp. There was about as much reality about that visit to the Romney’s as there was when one of the sons took pictures of them doing the laundry on the campaign trail. Remember that. Why, the Mitter and Ann told us they do their own laundry all the time. That’s why they were using small packets of detergent and softener like you get out of a vending machine. You would think people doing their own would have a big box of soap.

Disgusting segment. And the numbnuts complain that the so called “mainstream media” does nothing but puff pieces on the Obama family. Then what the hell would you call the Costco-goin, pancake-flipping, chore-wheel family segment???

Anne-claire Souza commented 2012-08-27 10:59:33 -0400 · Flag

I’m so angry at this interview that I made typos in my previous post,I apologize,but I’m sure you all undrstand.

Anne-claire Souza commented 2012-08-27 10:56:59 -0400 · Flag

This interview made me sick,what a couple of phonies,they are a couple of Stepford Robots,I doubt that Mittens wouldn’t recocnize the Kitchen if he saw one.How dare these two Robots inflicting us with their bullshit.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-08-27 08:34:09 -0400 · Flag

Oh brother! Yes little chrissy, the Etch-a-Sketch Rmoney’s are just normal folk like the rest of us. We all pay $900 for a t-shirt, are able to write off a dancing horse as a tax shelter, have offshore accounts and own multiple mansions. Yep. They’re just like us. And I’m almost certain Mrs. Etch-a-Sketch has probably never shopped at Costco, but I’m pretty sure her faithful servants have.

doors17 commented 2012-08-27 07:07:56 -0400 · Flag

Oh sure, just your average everyday multi-millioniares who buy their caviar at Costco. Makes you feel all Yankee Doodle inside, don’t it?

Sorry for going off topic here, but I feel the need to vent. On Saturday we lost an historic figure in Neil Armstrong, and his death is an example of how our priorities are so messed up today. While his passing is being reported by the news media, they seem to just want to move on, but when Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007, we had non-stop coverage for an entire month.

mj - the same one commented 2012-08-27 01:58:30 -0400 · Flag

Then Wallace said casually to Ann Romney, “I also hear from my sources that you have an unhealthy attraction to Costco.”

Ann Romney giggled and said, “Oh, we both like Costco. I love Costco.”

You’re right, Chrissy; it IS a rather “unhealthy attraction to Costco” — especially considering the fact that Costco’s founder and former CEO, Jim Sinegal, has donated to Democratic campaigns in Washington State . . . oh, and he’s an Obama supporter who’ll be speaking at the Democratic National Convention:

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/politicsnorthwest/2012/08/24/costco-co-founder-jim-sinegal-to-speak-at-democratic-national-convention/

Maybe he’ll thank you in his speech for shopping at Costco, Ann. ;^)>

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kathy robinson1803 commented 2012-08-27 01:56:11 -0400 · Flag

No maids at their summer home.Poor things.

Aria Prescott commented 2012-08-26 22:27:15 -0400 · Flag

OMFG, think this could have been staged enough?! And honestly… who in their right mind would fall for this, even among Fox News viewers?

truman commented 2012-08-26 21:49:17 -0400 · Flag

LIttle Chrissie Wallace is to MagicUnderwear Mitt what Greta Van Suckup was to the Whore of Babble-On. A sickening, fawning infomercial presented as real news.