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Did Mitt Romney’s Campaign Swipe A Toothpaste Logo?

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by Jon Bershad | 6:00 pm, April 12th, 2011

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Mitt Romney 2012: Saving America and Fighting Bad Breath!

When Mitt Romney’s team designed a new logo for his possible presidential run, they decided to take a page from the Obama book and use the Governor’s last initial. However, they probably wanted the color scheme of the R to evoke the American flag and not so much tooth paste. Unfortunately, the instant the logo was released, the Internet was already noting its similarities to that of Aquafresh. CNN picked up the minty fresh scandal this afternoon.

I have to say, I take a bit of offense to the way CNN’s Brooke Baldwin and Joe Johns handled this segment. As the guy who’s (willingly) opted to be in charge of all of Mediaite’s stupider news items as well as the guy who went on TV to talk about Snooki’s paycheck, I know a little something about how to do this type of story. You’ve got to own it, guys! Let the audience tell you what’s dumb or not with helpful comments like “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen” or “Why is this even news?” or “What happened to Mediaite? I used to like this site but now it’s all this This Exists crap. You guys should be ashamed.”

Ahem. Forget that last one.

Anyway, that being said, I did get a pretty good chuckle out of the utter disdain Johns had as he read the second half of Romney’s statement. See? Make fun of the people in your story, not the story itself! That’s the trick of good journalism.

Watch the clip from CNN below:

Brooke Baldwin, Joe Johns, Mitt Romney

lazzzlo

Ahem. Forget that last one.

But it’s so true! ;)
njoy-d-ride

Silly. I guess if a candidate uses red, white, and blue bunting during the campaign, they are ripping it off Romney…
cjd ohio 1

unreal, really cnn
Liberal Tormentor

HAHA!! This is like during the election when the only dirt they could find on Romney was that he put the dog carrier on top of the car when the family was going on vacation. Do you libs realize how utterly stupid you look when you try to make hay out of stuff like this? All it does is remind the American people how biased you are. But please, keep it up!!
TfT

And now we know why Ed Schultz show beat Anderson Cooper; CNN has lost its way, it is just gone off the deep end from gutter competition with MSNBC to sheer and utter stupidity.
Barack Must Go

Yeah I guess Mitts busted because a capital R for Romney is exactly the same as three squiggly lines on a toothpaste tube.

I knew those 86 soon to be unemployed individuals over at Media Matters were too on the ball ( s ) for the vast right wing conspiracy to infiltrate giant multinational corporations to work.

Damn you libs are good. Nobodies ever gonna pull the wool over your eyes.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

Maybe he’s just trying to suck up to Chris Matthews.
redleaf

I’ll never vote for Romney but this is a non-story.

Last year’s “Obama’s Nuclear Summit Logo Is an Islamic Crest” story was a different situation. That was a Fox News trial balloon to see if the “Obama is a Muslim who hates America” idea could gain any traction. Luckily it didn’t.

This Romney thing is just meaningless filler on a slow news day.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

Notice how the same people put out these never ending attacks on Republicans, never have a bad thing to say about Obama or Democrats?
Liberal Tormentor

But really Dronetek, what is there bad to say about Obama?
redleaf

Dronetek said:
Notice how the same people put out these never ending attacks on Republicans, never have a bad thing to say about Obama or Democrats?

Notice how the same people put out these never ending attacks on Democrats, never have a bad thing to say about Bush or Republicans?
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

I’d rather talk about how Mitt Romney strapped a dog to the roof of his car. That’s borderline disqualifying for me and he’s probably the only GOP’er I’d consider, although I am curious to see what Pawlenty’s like if he has the chance to try and come back towards the center.
gs1432

Some of these people should brush their filthy mouth !!!
fallenchicken

What are you Teatards so upset about? It looks like toothpaste.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Pirce/100000088233919 Nick Pirce

Romney could always become a pitchman for Aquafresh
tatboy

Publius219 said:
I’d rather talk about how Mitt Romney strapped a dog to the roof of his car. That’s borderline disqualifying for me and he’s probably the only GOP’er I’d consider, although I am curious to see what Pawlenty’s like if he has the chance to try and come back towards the center.

I’m unaware of the car story. Is the same as Obamas birth/muslim/Kenya story?
tatboy

fallenchicken said:
What are you Teatards so upset about? It looks like toothpaste.

To a moron… yes. Others might see a red, white, and blue R.
LOGICandREASON

How sad it is that the liberal media in America has got to this low level, that even the most celebrated colors of American patriotism and sovereignty is now rather attributed to a toothpaste and not the American Flag.

The liberal media did not question the coincidence that a toothpaste used the Nation’s national colors for its product, instead they now choose to suggest a patriotic American has chosen the colors of a toothpaste company.

What a disgrace CNN, and your left-wing media outlets
LibertySister

This is sad and why CNN is a loser channel!
I remember when CNN had a reporter in a canoe talking about flood devastation and a guy in the background walks by and its ankle deep water.
Or when CNN showed a close up of a automatic rifle on a guys back at a Tea party rally saying how they are racist and violent people and never panned out to show it was a black man with it.

They have lost there credibility!
Tedderman

I have it on good authority that this is a symbol of Islam. OK, I’m the authority and I made it up but hey, that’s what they do on Fox, isn’t it?