{"id":9377,"date":"2012-06-26T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2014-07-29T17:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:36:03","slug":"nice-try-soledad-big-fail-romney-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9377","title":{"rendered":"Nice Try, Soledad; Big Fail, Romney Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Props to CNN&#8217;s Soledad O&#8217;Brien for her dogged attempt to get an actual answer from Romney&#8217;s Senior Advisor (and former Commerce Secretary) Carlos Gutierrez as to whether the presumptive GOP nominee supports Arizona&#8217;s controversial &#8220;papers please&#8221; law, in light of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/06\/25\/505593\/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-show-me-your-papers-strikes-down-part-of-arizona-immigration-law\/\">yesterday&#8217;s SCOTUS ruling<\/a> striking down most of the law, but allowing the most controversial part of it to stand (for now.)<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=bestoftv\/2012\/06\/26\/exp-point-carlos-gutierrez-one.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=bestoftv\/2012\/06\/26\/exp-point-carlos-gutierrez-one.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"416\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If the rest of the media insisted on actual <i>answers<\/i> from politicians and their surrogates before moving on (talking to you David Gregory), we might actually move the ball forward occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Romney has previously called AZ&#8217;s SB1070, the law that was largely struck down yesterday, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=f4KdyTPXkqk\">&#8220;model&#8221; for the nation<\/a>. But I guess we all get to pretend he didn&#8217;t for a while, as he tries to Etch-a-Sketch his way out of the extremist positions he staked out in hopes of winning the GOP primaries.<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/06\/romney-surrogate-dodges-repeated-questions-on-sb1070.php?ref=fpnewsfeed\"><em>Hat-tip TPM<\/em><\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Props to CNN&#8217;s Soledad O&#8217;Brien for her dogged attempt to get an actual answer from Romney&#8217;s Senior Advisor (and former Commerce Secretary) Carlos Gutierrez as to whether the presumptive GOP nominee supports Arizona&#8217;s controversial &#8220;papers please&#8221; law, in light of yesterday&#8217;s SCOTUS ruling striking down most of the law, but allowing the most controversial part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,719,400,261,281],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn","category-david-gregory","category-election-2012","category-immigration","category-mitt-romney","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}