Thursday, March 22, 2012

Etch a sketch

  • The remark lasted only a moment, yet the metaphor may haunt Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney for months or even years.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • Mitt Romneys presidential hopes may have been shaken up when an aide compared his campaign to an Etch A Sketch toy, but the publicity blitz has been a delightful surprise for the U.S. makers of the well-known erasable childrens art tablet.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Gail Collins: David, Mitt Romney won big in Illinois. Does this mean we don't have to talk about Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich anymore? I have to admit I'm getting pretty tired of them.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • Mitt Romney didn't make Etch A Sketch a playtime fixture. Generations of nimble-fingered budding artists did that. His campaign did manage to make the toy that Ohio Art Co.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Mitt Romneys least favorite toy was seeing some investor love Thursday. Ohio Art Co. (OART), the company that makes the Etch A Sketch drawing toy, saw shares jump 141% Thursday after a gaffe by an aide to the Republican presidential candidate.
  • (MSN Money)
  • Mitt Romney didn't make Etch A Sketch a playtime fixture. Generations of nimble-fingered budding artists did that. His campaign did manage to make the toy that Ohio Art Co.
  • (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • Mitt Romney's strategist Eric Fehrnstrom set off a firestorm Wednesday with his comments that, come the general election, "everything changes, it's almost like an Etch A Sketch; you can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.
  • (ABC News)
  • TOLEDO, OHIO — Pushed to the bottom of the toy box by video games and other high-tech gadgets, Etch A Sketch is suddenly drawing lots of attention, thanks to a gaffe that has shaken up the race for the White House. Ohio Art Co.
  • (Courier-Journal)
  • As Mitt Romney's rivals exploited his campaign's now-infamous Etch-A-Sketch Gaffe, executives from the company that makes the quaint toy enjoyed the spotlight.
  • (Boston Herald)

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