Judge Napolitano Says Romney Needs More '47 Percent' Moments to Fire Up the Base

Has the mainstream media’s coverage of Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama been fair and balanced? Neil Cavuto said today on Your World, “If you’re going to go rip Romney, that’s fine. I don’t think it’s exactly the constructive way to go about this, but then do the same with the president.”

Earlier on the show, Cavuto spoke to Romney for his first reaction since the ‘47 percent' video was released. Romney stood by his comments and said, “I think this focuses a great deal of attention on whether or not we’re going to have a government that becomes larger […] Look, the president is borrowing a trillion dollars more than we’re taking in every year. It’s a pathway that looks more European

than American in my view, and it’s one which I know some Americans are drawn to. I think they’re wrong; I think they don’t recognize that it’s not good for America at large.”

Judge Andrew Napolitano said the problem is that the overwhelming majority of the media wants President Obama to win the election because their values are closer to his than Romney’s. While the judge has criticized Romney on certain issues, when it comes to the statements he made in the recently released clip, Judge Napolitano believes the former governor was “100 percent correct.”

He went on to say, “The reality is that the government lulled people into a dependency. Dependency breeds complacency and entitlement – it’s a false sense of security. These people are victims because the government has done this to them.”

Judge Napolitano said what was lacking in the interview is Romney’s passion. “When he does things like that [comment], whether he thinks about them or whether they come from his heart, that’s when people rouse up behind him.”