No kidding. The best intern I ever had at a recording studio was named Rob (he really preferred Bob, but we already had an “Intern Bob” so being lower on the totem poll, he was dubbed “Intern Rob”).
We LOVED Intern Rob because he had this uncanny and unparalleled ability to make everyone in the room happy. It didn’t matter what kind of session it was (and this studio was in Jersey just over the river from NYC, so we got just about every kind of client from TV jingles to Death Core, to Hip Hop that would make Snoop blush). Intern Rob Rocked. (or so we believed because Rob also made signs claiming so as some sort of self-marketing ploy).
OK, the point of Intern Mitt:
Intern Rob would say anything (and I mean ANYTHING) to help keep our clients happy. “Steel Drums? SURE! I have one in my trunk; will be right back.” Anything to make the client happy… sound familiar?
It didn’t matter if he drove to find something or lied through his teeth about how much he thought, “Yeah, you TOTALLY nailed that take! That was the one, seriously! It was magical!”
Rob would say anything to make anyone happy.
Mitt Romney the “keep the client happy” Intern. Intern Mitt the Twitt could rival Intern Rob as the world’s best … non-paid… recording studio intern. Say anything to make the client happy. Hate Obamacare one day, love it the next. Hell, he’ll support legalizing marijuana if it makes Colorado happy.
Mitt Romney is an Intern to the office of the President… has been interning for 8 years. The boss he wants, the Voter, knows he’ll never be ready to take the job. He want’s to please the client far, far to much – and that’s not what it takes to lead a country. That characteristic is DANGEROUS when running a country, because it’s far too fickle and no one ever knows in what he really believes. A President requires a core.
Note about Intern Rob: he never really made it as an audio engineer (at least that I know of). As you work your way up, you have to be able to tell truth to power… truth to the artist or producer… take a stand, so to speak, on the quality of a take… tell it like it is to a producer or an artist… because your job as an engineer is to get the best track you can… and that NEVER happens if all you do is try to make people happy.
It certainly, doens’t get you, “jobs, jobs, jobs” if all you do is say things that make people happy… all depending on the room your in and who is in that room with you. It definitely is NOT a characteristic of a President of the United States.
Mitt Romney the intern…. I can see him watering the plants and taking food orders now.
Published: by | Updated: 06-27-2013 10:17:16
