While Mitt Romney continues to be targeted by the media over his former relationship with Bain Capital, a new analysis claims the mainstream media is wrongly vilifying the Republican presidential hopeful.
Julia Seymour, assistant editor and analyst for the Media Research Center's (MRC) Business & Media Institute, writes in her recent column that ranging from comedians to cable networks, liberals charge Romney with dishonesty, guilty of "vulture capitalism."
"Very few defended Romney or criticized the really outrageous accusations of the Obama campaign about a potential felony," she notes. "And they also didn't bother to explain what the private equity industry is, or how it works for readers or viewers who are probably unfamiliar with private equity."
Seymour suggests many reporters know it is difficult for Romney to separate himself from the firm he founded, but chose not to tell the truth in order to help fuel what she calls "the Obama attack machine."
"Of course, there is a completely different possibility, and that is that Mitt Romney was telling the truth -- that he left Bain Capital in 1999, operationally speaking, to go run the Salt Lake City Olympics, and he was defended by CNBC's Larry Kudlow," the analyst reports.
She concludes that the media's criticism of Romney and Bain are so off base that The Washington Post and MSNBC's Chris Hayes have dismissed the Bain Capital claims.