Rick 'Kiss My Ass' Gorka is at it again, this time prohibiting a network news cameraman from filming Mitt Romney's arrival and entrance at the Saddle Club Estates in Midland, TX where he was holding a fundraiser at the gated community.
The campaign reprimanded the cameraman for filming, and then moved to stop the television pool from releasing the footage.
Asked repeatedly if he asked the networks not to use footage, Gorka refused to answer.
"It's not going out," Gorka said repeatedly.
Since Gorka kept repeating "it's not getting out", one has to conclude that they forcibly removed the tape from the cameraman.
Gorka did not respond to repeated requests for comments regarding the tape, saying only that the 'ground rules' of what was allowed to be filmed were still being worked out. Ground rules? Worked out? Since when are there ground rules for what the campaign allows to be filmed, and how long is it going to take for them to figure it out? They have less than 3 months left, before the election.
Gorka was asked repeatedly if he asked the networks not to use the footage but would only say 'it's not going out'. Since when do campaigns tell news networks what they can and cannot use? And what could possibly have been at the entrance to this gated community that the Romney campaign didn't want us to see it? It couldn't be worse than whatever he's not showing us in his taxes. It's a gated community - we know rich people live there and donate to Willard. Maybe because it has the word 'saddle' in the name, and anything to do with horses in this post-Rafalca era is strictly off limits?
A television cameraman who tried to film Romney's arrival at Saddle Club Estates was reprimanded by Romney traveling press secretary Rick Gorka and told to stop filming. The campaign then moved to stop the television pool from releasing the footage.
When asked about the confrontation by my colleague Ginger Gibson, who is in Romney's traveling press corps, Gorka said the "ground rules" of what the pool can film are still being worked out.
Asked repeatedly if he asked the networks not to use footage, Gorka refused to answer.
This is so typical of the Romney campaign, wanting to exert control over everything but having control of nothing. The Romney campaign certainly knows how to win friends and influence people in the press, don't they? The next thing we can be sure to expect is them complaining about poor treatment of the campaign in the press.