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.

[Nervous Tick]

>> She is simply another democRAT party apparatchik masquerading as a ......?

I submit “space alien”. (Or “scientologist”; take your pick.)

What do I win? :-)

[Tainan]

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

Translation: "You got me...I got nuthin'..."

[Tucker39]

I’d say all self-respect went out the window when she married Greenspan for his $$$$$$$$$$!

[jimfree]

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.

Amazing! Yes, when you award a grant that shouldn't be awarded you still create jobs for grant administrators. I worked for a company that administered some of the "Recovery..Act" money. They were embarrassed to say so.

[Tucker39]

As Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) used to say when his wife had him cornered in an argument: Hammina-hammina-hammina!

[Nervous Tick]

>> Write him off at your own peril

Who... Sununu? I’m not writing him off, I’m cheering him on!

But that doesn’t stop me from being surprised. Or “gobsmacked” as our friends across the pond put it.

Speaking of “across”, since you know him SOOO well, you KNOW he’s an “across the aisle” RINO, right?

Nevertheless, YOU GO FAT BOY!!!! Make me proud!

[Nervous Tick]

And by the way: a hearty THANK YOU for your many years of faithful service to our nation.

Without you, and the way forward you have helped to make secure, this discussion would be rather meaningless (if it could be held at all).

God Bless You, and FRegards

[piasa]

How much was it that Obama outsourced to Brazil so they could drill offshore while he was blocking us from drilling off our shores?

[Nervous Tick]

Too much.

[From The Deer Stand]

One could have a battle of wits with Andrea but she’s obviously out of ammunition.

[scooby321]

Obama has spent all his money and is about to be hammered

[Cyber Liberty]

I watched this video. I’m sure he had no idea how it was going to go when he went in, but she was caught stammering, at a loss for words, and he swooped. It was masterful. And I don’t particularly like the man who suggested David Souter to the SCOTUS.

[LongWayHome]

John is a brilliant guy & was a great governor of NH. He blew it on Souter with the help of that no-good RINO U.S. senator (RNH)Warren Rudman. Rudman is the lying scum that sold Souter to Sununu & Bush. And Rudman knew Souter’s private views. Sununu & Bush 41 did not have that info cause Souter’s record on the NH court was conservative. Sununu should have done more homework, but the real guy behind the nightmare that was Souter was mostly Warren Rudman.

[NFHale]

Haha!!

She didn’t know whether to take her thumb out of her ass or get pissed at him for laughing at her!!!

Gotta love when libs step on their own crank...love it even more when one of “ours” has the balls to point it out and make fun of them for it.

[reagan_fanatic]

It’s just getting harder and harder to defend that buffoon Obama. When your best people are out there flopping around like fish out of water, desperate to find ANYTHING positive to say about you, it is a bad, bad omen for November.

[Trod Upon]

Yup. She’s basically Dan Rather with a dress.

[353FMG]

What do you expect? The lady is a dumb democrat.

[SubMareener]

That is a Personal Attack on Mrs. Alan Greenspan!! snif snif ;-)

[okie01]

[Andrea Mitchell] is basically Dan Rather with a dress.

And, perhaps, even a little dumber.

[GOPJ]

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

Mitchell's such a ditz ..