John Sununu Laughs at Andrea Mitchell Defending Obama's Use of Bogus Romney Outsourcing Claims

NewsBusters.org ^ | July 10, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

It really has been hysterical watching the Obama-loving media the past few weeks defend the President using bogus information reported by the Washington Post falsely accusing Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs while at Bain Capital.

This has become so comical that former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu (R) couldn't hold back the laughs as Andrea Mitchell did exactly that Tuesday on the MSNBC program bearing her name (video follows with transcript and commentary):

John Sununu Laughs at Andrea Mitchell Defending Obama's Use of Bogus Romney Outsourcing Claims

ANDREA MITCHELL, HOST: Isn't it a winning issue for the White House fundamentally, granted that the Politifact folks and the Washington Post pointed out that the President's campaign ad on that issue had a lot, a lot of questions and a lot of questionable attack lines...

JOHN SUNUNU: No, they said it was wrong. A lot of questions is not right. It was wrong.

MITCHELL: Okay, if, but the point is that doesn’t, isn't Mitt Romney more vulnerable than the President on this issue because there still is, the whole question of private equity of outsourcing? You could argue about when he left Bain Capital, and, you know, whether he was still getting money from Bain Capital and what some of the companies in Bain were doing, companies that did end up working overseas and sending jobs overseas.

SUNUNU: [Laughs]

MITCHELL But isn't it a bigger problem for Republicans than for the White House?

SUNUNU: No. When you've sent $500 million to Fisker and it goes to Finland immediately. When you send the solar money and it goes to Mexico. When you send the turbine money and it goes to Denmark. And we can go on all day. There is $29 billion worth of purchases that came out of this administration, outsourced jobs to foreign countries. Mitt Romney outsourced zero. Obama outsourced 29…

MITCHELL: Zero?

SUNUNU: Zero. He wasn't there when those issues came up.

MITCHELL: Well, first of all…

SUNUNU: [Laughs]

MITCHELL: …the $29 billion are not all outsourced from the administration because...

SUNUNU: Sure they are.

MITCHELL: A lot of those jobs still remained here. There are jobs, when you do a grant, Governor, there are jobs here as well as overseas.

SUNUNU: [Laughs] You're struggling, Andrea. You're struggling. [Laughs]

MITCHELL: Well, first of all…

SUNUNU: [Still laughing]

MITCHELL: …these are competing claims and we will get back to you with all of the numbers.

SUNUNU: Sure.

I'd say that Mitchell ought to be ashamed, but any self-respect she had went out the window last month when she not only aired a selectively-edited video of Romney to make him look like an out of touch moron, she chose not to apologize when she got caught.

One has to hope reelecting one president is worth the diminishment in credibility Mitchell is suffering from her astonishingly unprofessional behavior.

[samtheman]

So she’s completely flushed all pretense of “journalism” down the toilet.

Do I have that right?

[Mouton]

See, that is the same vain as it is for saying it is not whether there was a crime committed, it is the seriousness of the charge that we need to look into (as long as it involves a GOP person).

[jmaroneps37]

This is a great little clip. Take the time and view it, you won’t be disappointed.

[Rummyfan]

Andrea Mitchell... I don’t know who she **** to get her job in the first place, nor who she is ****ing now to keep it. I thought the advent of HDTV would be the end of her career but no....

[reformedliberal]

The *job* that just astonishes me is “grant facilitator”. There are “administrative grants” within nearly all of the grants I have seen that pay around $20k to the person who writes them, on top of whatever is requested for a specific purpose. I have seen these facilitators receive their money even when the grant itself is denied. The person applying is often told they must agree to this set-up or they will not ever again be able to even apply, since the facilitator controls the application. Usually, these facilitators have some inside track with the grant reviewers. They also know how to put the correct wording into the tiny boxes provided.

For the record, my experience comes from being asked to write the “community benefit” analysis for specific projects. No compensation accrues to that process.

It is a huge boondoggle.

[PapaBear3625]

Andrea was well out of her depth. It looks like premature senility is setting in on her. She was just unable to cope with the conversation after it got derailed off her rehearsed talking points.

[jimfree]

Hey RL. I’ve heard of that kind of consultancy. Good gig if you can get it. Most of the grant writers I have known were non-profit folks working for modest salaries. I have written one grant proposal myself for a program I was delivering - I worked for free, both as writer and as executor of the grant; Most of the money was to fund substitutes for the school teachers that would be in my training program. (I was teaching teachers to use certain content for square dance education. Got a ~$2000 grant to give them several Friday afternoons off for the seminar sessions.)

[astounded]

That was hilarious! Andrea Mitchell is totally unaware that she is nothing but a mouthpiece for the DNC and Obama. Incredible!

And she obviously isn’t all that smart or able to think on her feet when confronted with facts that contradict her marching orders.

[Eagle of Liberty]

BTTT Awesome!!

[MayflowerMadam]

She’s stuttering more than Mel Tillis. Sheesh; what a incompetent ignorant bimbo.