George Phodopolopolis lamented this morning on GMA that Mitt Romney only mentioned the word "Mormon" once in his speech regarding his faith yesterday. Riddle me this, George: Are you telling me that if he said "Mormon" one hundred times that it wouldn't have been alarming to you as well? What's next, counting the times he says "Jesus"? George would flip out if he said "Jesus" twice or two hundred times. Twice would not be enough, as to try and upset his religious viewers, and two hundred would be too many times as to rile up the atheists watching his report.
You must remember that one the main reasons TV reporters do what they do is to get a rise out of their audience as easily as possible. Since "Mormon" only popped out once yesterday, the "Mitt is embarrassed of being a Mormon" angle is the easiest narrative to portray. If the speech was peppered wit the word "Mormon", George Phodopolopolis would be spinning the tale that Mitt is obviously planning to convert the U.S. population as a whole over to Mormonism. The media is scum, and this incident on GMA shows you why.
