Meet the Man Who Showed Us Romney’s Hidden Side

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- History sometimes has a way oftying itself up with a little bow. That’s the way I felt inJanuary when I introduced Scott Prouty, the bartender-turned-videographer who helped sink Mitt Romney’s presidentialcampaign, to Teddy Goff, the 28-year-old director of digitalmedia for President Barack Obama’s re-election.

Prouty was a new source. After scratching at the story forweeks as part of research for a new book, I had convinced him tomeet me in Washington in January. I wanted him to tell meeverything he could about recording Romney at the now-famousBoca Raton fundraiser where the Republican candidate said that47 percent of Americans were “victims” who wouldn’t “takepersonal responsibility and care for their lives.” David Corn ofMother Jones broke the original story; I wanted the back story.