What About Your Gaffes (2012)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It’s July 31st, 2012. This day, on the campaign trail, a reporter shouts a question at Mitt Romney: “What about your gaffes?!”

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how the question came to be asked and why it perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with modern political journalism. Plus, why the other questions asked that day weren’t that much better.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Averkin.
0:10.0	This day, July 31st, 2012, the presidential election is heating up.
0:16.6	It is looking like it's going to be Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, and a reporter is trailing
0:21.6	Mitt Romney on a trip to Poland and yells out, to my mind,
0:25.7	the single greatest question in the history of political journalism.
0:30.3	Yelled at Governor Romney, what about your gaffes?
0:34.0	There it is folks.
0:35.0	It's a beautiful, beautiful statement.
0:37.0	Four words, Governor Romney, what about your gaffes?
0:40.0	I want it printed on a t-shirt.
0:42.0	I want it taught at the Columbia
0:43.2	Journalism School. I've been waiting to do this episode seriously for a long long time
0:47.8	because I think it actually says so much and I have so many thoughts about it in
0:51.8	its place in political journalism and modern politics.
0:55.0	So here we go, here to do this episode that I've been waiting for,
0:58.1	Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
1:01.1	Hello there.
1:01.8	Hello Jody. Hey there. You should know Jody that the person
1:05.8	who yelled out that question actually had it printed on a t-shirt that Mitt Romney later signed.
1:11.2	So you're going to have to go get Philip Rucker's home address and go get to him.
1:15.0	And you know, I did not put Philip Rucker who's still out there as a political reporter. I did not put his name in the intro because I think
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