Adele Ferguson

ITEM—Mitt Romney comes under attack by the media for saying at a private meeting of his supporters and secretly recorded that he doesn’t expect the vote of Americans who depend on government handouts and have been persuaded by the Obama campaign that they are victims. He must reach out instead, he said, to the undecideds.

COMMENT—Over 20 nations around the world were in turmoil as Islamic fanatics burned U.S. and Israeli flags and attacked those countries’ overseas institutions and citizens yet the media concentrated instead in its news coverage on sticking it to Romney in their desperation to...