‘I turn on my TV – and there’s RT’: Romney slams Russian intl strategy

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (Reuters / Chris Keane)

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (Reuters / Chris Keane)

Former US presidential candidate Republican Mitt Romney has acknowledged RT’s reach and influence. He called it part of Russia’s “strategy,” at the same time as slamming Obama and Clinton’s foreign policy mistakes.

Romney spoke to an
audience of about 200 at the fourth annual E2 (Experts and
Enthusiasts) summit in Park City, Utah. He backed his statements
up with a PowerPoint presentation, the main focus of which was to
slam the foreign policy mistakes of President Barack Obama and
former Secretary of State (and now, the Democratic favorite of
the presidential race) Hillary Clinton.

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He had a slide for each of Obama’s “most
consequential foreign policy mistakes,”
including the
Middle East apology tour” and the “reset” effort in
relations with Russia.

This part of the presentation concluded with Romney asking
whether Obama was “the worst foreign-policy president in
history
.” He answered himself in the affirmative, reports
the Washington Post.

He then switched to castigating Hillary Clinton’s term as
secretary of state, saying she had consolidated the world against
the US by making “mistake after mistake after mistake.”

Finally, Romney flipped the PowerPoint pages to Russia and
President Putin.

“What’s Putin’s strategy?” the slide asked. “Russia
TV,”
Romney answered. “I mean, I turn on my TV here —
and there’s RT!”

This is far from the first time that RT has received the
attention of high-ranking US politicians. In 2011, Hillary
Clinton called for more financing for US state-sponsored media to
counteract the channel, even going so far as to say Washington
was losing the information war against Russia.

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The plea was reiterated this year by Clinton’s successor in the
State Department, John Kerry. He also referred to RT’s growing
influence and said money is needed for “democracy
promotion”
around the world. As a side note, RT’s budget is
some $250 million (13.85 billion rubles), while US government
media receive about $770 million.

In February, the former head of the US Broadcast Board of
Governors Andrew Lack went as far as saying RT was a threat on a
par with Islamic State and Boko Haram terrorists.

Romney’s E2 summit was initially organized in 2012 as a way to
raise money for his own presidential campaign (before he
eventually lost to Barack Obama). This year, six Republican
presidential hopefuls attended, aiming to get funding from major
CEOs and a personal endorsement from Romney.

Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/267316-romney-turns-on-tv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

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