WOW!!! Soledad Squashes Mitt's Spokesman (Sununu) Re: Medicare Claims

[FourScore]

Tue Aug 14, 2012 at 08:10 AM PDT
New Romney claim: Mitt's Medicare plan is 'very different' than Ryan's
by Jed Lewison

CNN's Soledad O'Brien did a great job in her interview with Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu this morning, in the process giving us a glimpse at just how uncomfortable Romney's campaign must be now that they have to defend the Romney-Ryan plan to end Medicare. Sununu spent much of the interview badgering O'Brien, accusing her of being a tool of the Obama campaign, but when she fought back—with facts, not insults—the only thing Sununu could do was claim that Ryan's Medicare plan is "very different" the Romney plan.

But despite his claim, the only difference cited by Sununu wasn't actually part of the Medicare plan. He said that unlike Ryan's budget plan, Romney would repeal Medicare savings signed into law by President Obama. But those savings are actually a good thing; they lower the cost of Medicare without touching benefits. And the only reason they aren't in the Romney budget plan is that Romney's budget plan has almost no details.

So, despite Sununu's claim, there is really basically no difference between what Ryan and Romney are proposing for the future of Medicare. The fact that Sununu would nonetheless claim that the plans are "very different" tells you everything you need to know about how afraid Republicans are of defending the Romney-Ryan plan on its merits.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/14/1119989/-New-Romney-claim-Mitt-s-Medicare-plan-is-very-different-than-Ryan-s

[RedStateLiberal]

1. Nice to see someone on CNN standing up for the truth.

Sunununununu is a total ass.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. He is like herpes...

he just won't go away.

[Frustratedlady]

2. I hope she has the backing of CNN, as these big boys can make life rough for her.

She doesn't back down from them and comes prepared to take them down, where necessary. I wish she would move to MSNBC so I didn't have to go to CNN. I gave up on them a couple years ago.

[lastlib]

4. CNN--Certainly NOT News

But Soledad rocks! she seems to be the only one who's not a right-wing tool.

[Plucketeer]

28. CNN

Consistently Numbing Noise - Conservative Numb Nuts

[Cha]

58. I stopped watching 10 years

ago. Chicken Noodle Nooze - Cons Need Nursing

[Plucketeer]

88. I only watch when someone posts a clip here.

Hell, I wasn't even aware Soledad was on CNN. Too bad, cause if she really calls em out like in this clip, she should be somewhere else.

[KaryninMiami]

55. Anderson Cooper is also not a right-wing tool.

He's often on the left side of the aisle - and even more importantly- also often-- investigates the news- with no agenda except doing his job. What a concept...

[Whisp]

61. Cooper lost me with his 'both sides do it' shit.

he's have some awful and regular Repug story and ends up saying' well, the Dems do it too!' but does not give examples.

because there usually aren't any.

He's as much a fool tool as Wolf and the rest. Soledad will probably be losing her job soon as she does not fit in to the Liars' Club there.

[Dustlawyer]

96. Nothing gets on air the big wigs don't approve of. They want us debating this crap

til we are blue in the face. They scare us enough on the right to feel relief when it does not go, "that far." They gradually have gotten most of what they want. They own most of the pols, Courts, media, everything. Big people do not get prosecuted and yet we have to give up our basic rights (warrantless wiretapping, NSA monitoring EVERYTHING, including this post now that I mentioned them, torture...). Please wake up and understand, most Democratic politicians on the National level are bought just like the Republicans. Do you honestly believe that Democrats have congenital defects in their spine and that is why they cannot show backbone? We got a glimpse today behind the curtain, literally, when Bill "Freakin" Clinton was taped back stage talking to Paul "FU" Ryan and telling him that although they have to fight in the election, they would agree to cut all of the social programs. Ryan agreed and told Clinton to give him a call as he walked on stage. This is like a play put on for us and we are the little kid who thinks this is all real. If the politician does not play ball, they get a well funded opponent in the next primary. If they are honest, they are not allowed to stay. It is now to the point that billionaires are picking the VP running mate for the Repug Pres candidate. The Koch suckers told Romney his VP was Ryan, check it out! If we cannot acknowledge the real problem, that our government suffers from a fatal dose of corruption, we will never solve anything and we will continue to slide ever faster to extinction! We need real and complete campaign finance reform and the only way to get it is for enough people to recognize that most of our problems stem from from this legalized (and sometimes not so legal) bribery (campaign contributions) and intimidation.

[lightcameron]

120. That's just it: If you don't share someone's agenda, you MUST be an enemy.

That's pretty much how the cable news discussion goes.

So while he's reporting news about both sides, the partisan viewers can hate him one day, love him the next, etc. But they always know where to get the things they want to hear -- Fox or MSNBC, respectively. For the life of me, I don't know why any viewer is content with being fed news they KNOW is spun to fit their interest. Bizarre.

[lightcameron]

79. I only watch CNN. Fox and MSNBC are over-the-top in their advocacy "journalism."

It's sad that anyone who watches those two channels thinks they're getting unvarnished news.

[whathehell]

83. That's nice.

but it's sad if you think CNN doesn't lean Right.

[lightcameron]

109. They're hated by the hyper-partisan Fox viewers and the hyper-partisan MSNBC viewers.

Which means they're hated by each party's extreme partisans.

That says a lot.

[whathehell]

115. Sorry, but I'm not convinced, and I believe

you'll have a difficult time persuading most here, although I think most

will admit they're less to the right than FOX, which is why you have people like Soledad O'Brien.

MSNBC becomes partisan in the evening, but unlike FOX, for instance,

with their "fair and balanced" BS, they cheerfully admit it.

In the daytime, MSNBC is much less so...Tamron Hall and Andrea Mitchell

are not partisan, and one of their new daytime shows,

"The Circle", for instance is co-hosted by admitted conservative, S.E. Cupp.

As for CNN, you must know that Candy Crowley is Republican

as is, I believe, former AIPAC lobbyist, Wolf Blitzer....I'm more confident

of Crowley's leanings, but Blitzer DEFINITELY leans Right.

[lightcameron]

119. I have no doubt that most here won't agree.

The Cycle is hosted by four people. One is a rightie.

I don't watch Mitchell, after seeing her bungle too many stories. She sucks. Don't know much about Tamron Hall.

Blitzer and Crowley are constantly lambasted by right-wingers. Once again, hated by the left, hated by the right, probably in the middle somewhere. I'm not a big fan of either of them, to be frank.

I hate cheerleading masked as news, which is why Fox and MSNBC are so laughable.

As I said in another post, it's no coincidence that right wingers are drawn to Fox and liberals are drawn to MSNBC. If someone can't figure out what that's all about, I'm not sure anything will help.

[karynnj]

121. Anyone who watched the Candy Crowley, groupie like coverage of W in 2000

then saw her AWFUL coverage of John Kerry in 2004 would know that she is both Republican and unable to hide her affiliation. Blitzer was a neocon and was joyful when his buddy Cheney became the VP in 2000.

I would love to have a more objective less partisan media, but it seems that the business models on cable lead to most people being one side of the other. This has aggravated the partisanness of the country.

[whathehell]

129. Yes, I remember that well.

She, like the other repukes, made a big deal of Kerry's supposed "elitism"

reflected, in their view, by things like ordering green tea in a restaurant

and windsurfing, but are now strangely silent on Mitt's "dressage" horse

and car elevator....The hypocrisy couldn't be clearer.

[karynnj]

138. The green tea was interesting - as she got it completely wrong, per the restaurant

Kerry had been there before and he asked for green tea, which was on the menu. The waitress asked if Lipton (and yes Lipton has green tea) was ok. Kerry said yes - and was brought Lipton green tea.

What this indicates is elitism - on Crowley's part - thinking a provincial town in Iowa could not have green tea - much too sophisticted for them! Even if the story were what Crowley thought it was - Kerry asked and then politely accepted what was offered. There is still no story here.

Not to mention, Crowley told this story from the primaries after Kerry lost as an explanation of why he lost. But, the fact is that the facts do not support that. Kerry won Iowa because people did connect with him when he met them in small groups. As to the various wiatresses and other service people he met, Kerry easily won a poll of people in these professions that was done for decades during the primaries. He was polite, respectful and interested in what they had to say. (Not to mention, he would never have had the poor taste to pull the Romney trick of reacting as if one of them had touched him.)

[whathehell]

139. Yes, yes and yes!

I didn't know about her getting it wrong, but I remember thinking what a petty and

lame example of "elitism" it was...I never watch her anymore, but I'd LOVE

to hear how she describes Mitt, who clearly, is not only "elitist", but down right

RUDE, as his insult to the cookies the hosts from Pittsburgh served him showed.

Since then, it's become clear, that he can't open his mouth without insulting someone.

I honestly think there's something psychologically "off", about him that goes beyond the usual explanations

of "money and privilege", but I guess that's another conversation.

Thanks for that information about Kerry and Crowley. Her absolute partisanship

became clear to me a few months ago, when she opened her show with some

discussion on "entitlements" and with it, described Social Security and Medicare

as "popular but unsustainable programs"...She didn't question it's "sustainability"

She stated it's non-sustainability as FACT...She may have thought that delivering that "pronouncement"

quickly and with a broad smile as she did , would take the edge off its partisan arrogance, but it

didn't work on this viewer, and I doubt it worked on others. I stopped watching her

after that, and only tuned in last week because she was interviewing David Axelrod,

who handled her well, even calling her out for showing him PART of a poll, but not all.

[lightcameron]

132. That's how you saw it. RWNJ's saw it another way.

There's no accounting for opinion.

[whathehell]

122. Correct, but when you understand that virtually ALL cable & network news

including CSPAN, is corporate-owned, and therefor "right leaning, you are on your way to understanding that there is NO truly unbiased

corporate owned news in the nation...It's one of the reasons the Internet is so heavily "prized"

by those seeking corporate-free news.

You say that you think Blitzer and Crowley are "in the middle somewhere"

and that MIGHT be true when if you realize that what's considered the "middle" now,

was "Right" not long ago, and what is "Right" is now ""Fascist to Nazi".

I don't know how old you are, but anyone over the age of forty five or fifty

can tell you how FAR to the Right this country has gone and in not that long a time.

As Libertarian Bill Maher put it: "The Democrats have moved to the Right and

the Right has moved to the Mental Hospital". If you're too young to remember

any president before Clinton, or even Reagan, you may have a hard time realizing what

real Democratic policy looked like.


As to the news, you may "hate cheer leading masked as news", but if you didn't start watching the news

until AFTER the 1980's, it's unlikely you would RECOGNIZE it if you saw it.

I would suggest you research something called The Fairness Doctrine...It was law in this country

from about 1936 until about the middle 1980's during the Reagan Administration.

That was probably the last time you could get reasonably close to "real" or "objective"

news, although as anyone who's been to college or has studied media will know,

there is really no "purely" objective political news because there are no "purely" objective human beings.

We all have biases -- All of us.

MSNBC is something of an exception, and that's only because the station, as a profit-driven entity,

just wanted to tap the "untapped" left-leaning market, but even their anchors aren't permitted

to discuss "everything".

[lightcameron]

131. Now you're getting it. "there are no "purely" objective human beings"

Very true.

And that includes viewers.

One aspect of the media bias discussion that is all too easily forgotten is that you have to factor in the bias of the viewer as well. To someone far right like Newt Gingrich, Anderson Cooper looks like a liberal. To someone far left like Katrina vanden Heuvel, Anderson Cooper looks like a right-wing tool. So...who's correct? (Leaving aside for the moment that the two people in my example are perpetually angry and miserable.) And, by the way, the bias of the consumer/viewer is what made the Fairness Doctrine such a bad idea.

[whathehell]

137. I "got it" long ago, bro.

It's you I'm unsure of.

Let's get this straight: You don't like "biased" news, but you thought

the Fairness Doctrine was a "bad idea".

How then, would you propose we "improve" the situation?

[Skittles]

85. are you kidding?

CNN very often emulates FOX news in its quest for the idiot viewer - they are alienating a lot of us THINKING viewers

[lightcameron]

110. I guess if you put "THINKING" in all caps, it must mean you're correct!

I surrender.

[Atman]

87. Wow. You really that?

CNN is leans very far right, after a concerted effort to emulate Fox in an attempt to staunch their hemmoraging ratings. After that strategy only made things worse, they decided to reformat their mornings to compete with F&F and Joe -- enter Soledad OBrien. She is good, her new show is probably the only watchable thing on CNN. But CNN is still right-wing.

Fox is a purely, unabashedly, 100% partner in the Republican party.

MSNBC is NOT just a left-wing Fox. MSNBC devotes all morning and most of it daytime to righties. A small peppering of liberal politics is allowed, but it's otherwise right-wing until Al Sharpton begins their prime-time liberal-leaning shows (No, that doesn't start with Chris Matthews; he leans toward whichever party is in the White House.

Can you name any 6-hour portion of Fox's programming devoted to liberal politics? Of course not. Obviously, by any objective measure, MSNBC is far more "Fair and balanced" than Fox has ever been.

[lightcameron]

111. Alex Wagner leans right? Three of the four hosts of "The Cycle" lean right?

Martin Bashir leans right? I don't know who else they have on in the afternoons, but I've dipped in and viewed enough to know the answer to those questions. As an avid viewer, I'm sure you do too.

I don't think MSNBC has anyone as annoying as Bill O'Reilly, so Fox takes the lead there. But the two channels clearly are designed to appeal to the two different ideological bases.

I think MSNBC probably has gone up a notch or two, after sending Olbermann to Current, who set him up for his new job of arguing with people on Twitter.

[Atman]

114. My point remains...how much liberal content does Fox airs compared to MSNBC?

I had forgotten about Alex Wagner, as she's still pretty new -- and she does have the heinous C Cupp on. I think Martin Bashir's show is excellent, and actually feel that it leans more towards news than the straight liberal commentary like the evening shows. However, there is no denying the total Republican tilt in the mornings. Remember under GWB when Joe used to claim was an Independent? Lot's of people disavowed their GOP affiliation during and after Bush. But now that Obama is in office, scab wears his affiliation proudly on his sleeve. Chuck Todd occasionally appears to be moderate, but remember where he came from. Then there is Andrea "Greenspan" Mitchell.

It is simple fact...there is no cable news network that offers us such a varied mix of Progressive/Liberal and Republican shows. None. And that is why I think MSNBC gets a bad rap. It would be better, perhaps, if they didn't segregate the two points of view based into day and evening, but I am sure they would lose substantial viewership that way. After all, liberals will watch Morning Joe even as they hate him, just to watch the trains wrecks, and to keep up on opposing views. No Republican would ever watch a minute of Rachel Maddow or The Ed Show.

.

[lightcameron]

118. Martin Bashir "leans more towards news than the straight liberal commentary"?

Maybe when he was on Nightline, he did. But not now.

I don't watch TV in the mornings, but I don't doubt that JS's show doesn't lean left.

My point is, there's no way it's just a coincidence that righties gravitate towards FOX, liberals are drawn to MSNBC, and the hardcore of each base despises CNN.

[spanone]

126. anyone who watches cnn and thinks they're getting 'unvarnished' news.....

is delusional

[lightcameron]

133. No such thing. It's just that the Fox and MSNBC devotees act as though

that's what they're getting, when in fact they're getting the most spin from each side, respectively.

But, hey, they're searching for "news" they WANT to hear.

[rfranklin]

3. Why bother with blowhards like this?

They lie, the scream, they whine and obfuscate. (Then again, it is show business.)

[WinstonSmith4740]

74. Because that's all the republicans have!

Blowhards and liars. I remember years ago, when Sununu was considered the scientific genius in either the Reagan or Bush administration, he announced he was going to write a computer program to prove that global warming was a myth. It was pointed out rather politely by more than one scientist that the scientific method doesn't START with your conclusion. He is, and always has been, a royal pain in the ass.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. Gawd. Does that P.O.S. even hear himself??

Why in the heck does anyone have that lying sack O.S. on? He stands by his lies, regurgitated to him by the wordsmiths from Frank Luntz, and then he gets upset when reporters don't believe his lies.

Can we send Sununu back to Cuba where people have to believe the lies of the authorities or else! Because it's not going to wash here.

[Iggy]

106. SHRILL Ugly Old Man

sorry to be that way, but if this is all the GOP has... again, Obama/Biden are
ensured victory this fall

[BlueCaliDem]

117. I believe you're correct. The shriller the GOP surrogates become

the more it tells me they know they're going to lose this November 6th.

I hope, sincerely hope, that Americans will return power back to the Democrats in Congress, and IF Harry Reid is still Majority Leader in the Senate, that they do away with the filibuster just as the House had done. Otherwise, it'll be more of he same and America cannot move forward.

Let's hope Americans (specifically the Liberal Left and centrist Independents) will stop supporting the GOP either by not voting Democrat, voting 3rd Party, or directly voting for the Party of NO.

[Iggy]

127. Congress?

let's hope the Dems can hold on to the Senate.

keep in mind Dem governors were kicked out of office in several states in 2010... the anti
Dem sentiment appears to be strong..

[BlueCaliDem]

130. Unless the American people really are a bunch of processed-foods polluted dumbbells

the Democrats should win back both the House and keep the Senate.

[Iggy]

136. Wishful Thinking

"Stupidity is the disease of America".

Norman Mailer

[whathehell]

128. Yes he is...

Sununu is fat and ugly...He was even fairly ugly when he was younger

and now that he's getting older, those little pig eyes are getting

even smaller, and their buried in what appears to be a face that's

mostly formless fat with a weird flap of hair on top.

I usually don't comment on people's appearance, so I guess I should feel guilty about

saying that, but since he's actually done pretty well for himself

In addition to being ugly on the INSIDE as well as the outside

I don't really care.

[Bohunk68]

108. Sununu is not Cuban

He is of Lebanese extraction. As far as his religious beliefs? I don't know for sure, but I think he is of Druze descent. If we send him anywhere, it would be Beirut.

[BlueCaliDem]

116. John E. Sununu was born in Havanna, Cuba, July 2, 1939

Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of Victoria (née Dada) and John Saleh Sununu, an international film distributor of Palestinian descent [2][1] who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem [3]. His father grew up in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem in Palestine and his mother was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, as part of the mass exodus of Ottoman subjects seeking a better life abroad.[2][3] He is a Maronite Catholic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Sununu

I maintain that we send him back to Cuba OR to El Salvador where his mother's from OR Palestine. Anywhere but here. It's apparent he's more favorable toward dictatorships rather than democracy.

[Bohunk68]

134. thanks for the correction.

that's what happens when one is on dialup and trying to recall from memory. Although, I had thought that he was Lebanese, not Palestinian. Hmmmm. But anyhow, thanks a bunch.

[BlueCaliDem]

135. You're welcome. :-)

Dial-up still exists? You mean, DSL cable?

Anyway, your heart is in the correct place since you only wanted to help. And that's a good thing.

[Bohunk68]

140. I do not mean DSL.

I truly mean dialup, like what everyone had 20 years ago? The FIOS is one house away and Verizon wants $2400 PLUS 25 houses more within one quarter mile. I live on a country road, there might, just might be that many more houses down the way.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Sununu isn't doing this for free, I wonder how much he's getting for this?

Does he get paid by Rmoney by the word, the appearance, how many lies he gets out in the time allotted?


No one works for free in their world.

[ayak9]

27. 5 cents per post? Not!

I'm sure he gets significantly more than the hordes of paid trolls around here. With all that Koch money, the Pukes will probably try to buy scads of votes from struggling low-information "peons". See, trickle down works.

[railsback]

7. But on FOX...

its 'Sununu Obliterates Liberal!'.

I don't know why the Romney campaign keeps throwing Sununu, of all people, to the stations NOT FOX. If you're trying to win over moderates and independents, you don't send out a psychotic asshat as your spokesman.

[xxqqqzme]

25. The Rmoney

campaign does. It is what they do best. I thought the mclame campaign was shoddy and inept....not even close to this one. They are relying on a ton money to do all the work.

[nxylas]

39. Yeah, it's red meat to the base

The people who believe that any news source outside the RW echo chamber is just propaganda for "them" will lap this shit up.

[lumpy]

8. Sununu sounds like Donald Trump. Ignorant! The guy has no substance.

Soledad, bless her heart, hit him right in the nards.

[GallopingGhost]

9. It would

almost be comical if it weren't so pathetic.

[jillan]

10. Soledad was one of the finalists to moderate the debates but she rejected.

Last edited Tue Aug 14, 2012, 02:35 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/presidential-debate-moderators-white-diversity_n_1775147.html

[PCIntern]

12. WTF? Really...?

Oh God...

[jillan]

48. Oops - my bad - she was offered but rejected....

Politico reported that CNN's Soledad O'Brien was considered by the CPD, but rejected. It's unclear whether other prominent journalists of color in the industry -- NBC's Lester Holt or Ann Curry, for instance, or Univision's Jorge Ramos -- were considered. Nor, of course, did the CPD reach beyond the television world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/presidential-debate-moderators-white-diversity_n_1775147.html

i'll go fix that now....

[reformist2]

11. The Romney/Ryan message on healthcare is totally incoherent.

I have no idea what plan they stand for, what plan they are proposing. Until they come out clearly for something, we should feel free to bash all their plans.

[winstars]

13. There was a story yesterday showing O'Brien reading TPM and the right wing crazies

freaking out that she was reading a "far left website"...

Always thought she was too false equivalency like AC but maybe she has seen the light...

[byoung6]

14. Chris mathews did basically the same thing

Last nite but Soledad did it more thoroughly and with alot more style. Sununu is a mean, blowveating ,piece of corrupt old crap. Great post thank you!

[stopbush]

22. I switched channels as soon as that hedgehog's mug appeared on Hardball yesterday.

There are certain RW liars who lie so blatantly and aggressively that I refuse to give them even a second of my life. Sununu is one of them.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. But you missed the fact that Tweety completely talked all over him

so he never really got a word in edgewise the entire segment. It was a thing of beauty.

[PatSeg]

33. I saw that and

I'm amazed that the Romney campaign is allowing this fool to be a spokesperson. He certainly causes more harm than good. On top of a severe fact deficiency, he is rude as hell.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. It's like his swan song

a last gig before he disappears for another decade or so. I wish he'd take the other blowhard - Newt Gingrich - with him too.

[PatSeg]

43. Its hard to believe he ever got elected for anything

Last night I finally had to fast-forward through him. As bad as Gingrich is, at least he's relatively polite and lets other people talk.

[spooky3]

16. Excellent job by Soledad. The facts were on her side, and that condescending fool tried to distract

and insult her but she kept her cool. I think he honestly is too stupid and uninformed to know the facts, and I am not sure whether that is worse than knowing them and lying, then acting like a bully.

It is an incredibly stupid "strategy" to treat good journalists this way. She will not forget it when preparing future stories, and any members of the audience with IQs higher than those of Limbaugh listeners could see exactly what was happening.

[garthranzz]

17. She doesn't "squash" him

unless she has the last word and concludes, with that calm smile,

"thank you for repeating misinformation and distortions and trying to distract the public from the facts."

[evilhime]

18. Blowhard

What a turd... does he really believe he can just keep repeating this over and over to reporters and get away with it? Wow... his name should be "so what's new new" <sigh>

[Skittles]

84. that tactic works with conservative voters

with Democrats and Independents, it makes him look foolish

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Sununu makes me sick.

Always did, always will.

[xxqqqzme]

20. He called her a tool?

That's funny/sad/pathetic.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

21. She gets to the truth...One smart lady! K&R

Best interviewer on CNN!!!

[AngryAmish]

23. God, she took a massive dump in his mouth and made him eat it

[Vietnameravet]

24. Facts don't matter

Facts don't matter to the hardcore righties..if they did Rush and Glenn and a whole bunch of others would be out of a job..

[Scuba]

26. Sununu reminds me of that oil company shill that ran out in Washington State. He was on Rachel....

... and refused to address the issues, just kept accusing Rachel of being biased.


When your spokesman is Sununu, you've got nothing.

[blaze]

29. OK... I haven't watched CNN for a long time...

But O'Biren had the facts and kept her cool.... Sununu got angry and was blathering.

I rather enjoyed that clip.

[Lyndsay]

31. Awesomeness

I love how she was calm, and collected, and he was a blustering fool. He tried to bully her, which I find very offensive, that a man in a position of power and responsibility in a campaign cannot be respectful, but it worked in her favor. I'm glad Soledad did not let the Romney campaign get away with trying to mislead the public, or flip flop on the details. I love that she's a strong woman.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. Sununu is one of the worst spokespeople any poltician could have

He's about as far from having sympatico appeal as any human could get. Even forgetting that he delights in telling lies, his delivery is extremely unappealing. How could any poltcian want this person to be the face of their campaign?

[mwb970]

104. Like Priebus and other republicans, Sununu makes me physically ill.

He is a total liar and he's bad at it too. He is just repulsive to me. Who would listen to such an unappealing "spokesperson"?

[avebury]

34. Soledad rocked! nt

[KansDem]

35. Is Sununu still around?

Kyrist! Republicans are like bad farts in a room with no windows...

[Hubert Flottz]

41. More like what comes after the bad farts

A fart is just a turd honking for the right-of-way.

Sununu sounds like a spoiled 5 year old brat!

[KansDem]

47. "A fart is just a turd honking for the right-of-way."

So true...so true..

[Kennah]

102. "A fart is just a turd honking for the right-of-way."

Gawd! Thank you for that laugh. I needed that.

[HopeHoops]

36. If rMoney had his package on the table, it needs to be wiped down with bleach.

[HopeHoops]

38. Sununu is even dumber now than he was when I lived in NH.

[jade3000]

40. Or did Sununu squash O'Brien?

I searches for this on YouTube and found multiple posts of the interview with most sayin that Sununu owned Soledad O'Brien. The total interview is longer than the above clip. As much as I like her overall, I find that she does a bad job when she's in attack mode, which she clearly is in the full interview. In that mode, the smile is so obviously fake and the idea that she doesn't/isn't taking a particular angle is disingenuous. I'd rather she come strong with a liberal slant and then perhaps give a conservative a chance to interview the guest as well.

[Catherine Vincent]

44. You have to look to the video title and the user of the video downloader

More than likely, they were republican users supporting Sunun and not O'Brien.

[jade3000]

124. Yes, they were Sununu/Romney supporters

I'm just saying there were quite a few and they were enthusiastic (not defensive) about the video. It's all about perception. I think this interview can fire up either base. Of course, it'll probably be forgotten in a week and is way too early in the election cycle to really impact voters anyway.

[FourScore]

50. Yeah, that's what liberals REALLY want -- a conservative to interview him after Soledad.

Hmmm...You haven't been around on DU for very long, have you?

[jade3000]

125. Joined DU this year and I like it

This is a good news & discussion site. It's quickly become my favorite.

[DireStrike]

65. Nah, Soledad's points were almost all neutral

Pretty much everything she argued over was just numbers and definitions.

[underpants]

92. I looked aroung YouTube and found a bus depot of popular opinion

YouTube is reflective of the population to you?

[heaven05]

113. yeah???

[AllyCat]

42. Will she lose her job over this? I mean, corporate spokes/news models are not supposed

to ask tough questions, just present the unpopular in a popular way. Nice job Ms. O'Brien. Hope you can keep your job.

[AtomicKitten]

45. Soledad was magnificent.

[Sancho]

46. Sununu is such an a*%...I can't believe he still gets any airtime...

but Soledad did pretty well.

[jillan]

49. I need to start watching her more. That is exactly how an interview should be done.

[Harriety]

51. It's soooooo hard to argue with A-holes like this but she did a great job....

and I thank her for that. We could only hope that every news source would stick to the facts to refute lies like she did.

[riverbendviewgal]

52. I watch CNN when she is on

She is good. Loved this interview....Sununu looked stymied...She had the bite on him and would not let him go..

[ryan_cats]

53. I love Sununununu...

I love Sununu. A long time ago he was on Crossfire with Michael Kinsley. I don't remember how it came up but the discussion was on travel perks and how someone was caught using the perks illegally. Kinsley, with a wry smile said something like, John, you know all about that don't you? Sununu, for the briefest second, looked like he was ready to smack Kinsley, then he just smiled and laughed. The audience loved it and Sununu sat looking steamed.

I miss Michael Kinsley. Didn't he end up with a horrible auto immune disease?

[whathehell]

89. He was on a show on MSNBC a couple of days ago and he looked strange.

I didn't know he had an auto immune disease, but his face looked slightly

contorted and his back seemed bent over...He looked bad.

[lonestarnot]

54. She fucking rocks!

[rurallib]

56. He needs to go back to turd polishing school

The turds he has to polish are a couple of stinky ones.

[BrainMann1]

57. Old Dude will not shut up

I think he had a brain freeze. He likes interupting,I've seen him on Chris Mathews. I guess he thinks if he keeps you from talking he'll make sense; NOT

[jonthebru]

59. I was going to write...

Sununu is beyond help and should go home and tend his flowers, that is, retire. But after further thought, he is frickin' perfect. A henchman at his best. Yelling at her about repeating Democratic talking points while all the while strictly delivering and standing up for the Rmoney perpetrated lies, simply amazing. He's just not very good at it.
We do have a problem, in fact many. But the right are carrying out a smoke screen campaign to steal our country. We all need to pitch in and prevent that from occurring.

[PCIntern]

60. PROUD to be the 100th Rec. nt

[DireStrike]

62. Yeah I just happened to catch that this morning

Is this typical of CNN nowadays?

[bayareaboy]

63. Don't ya wonder how much ...

Sonouuuu-noo is charging the RePUG party for being a turd in the road.

[slutticus]

64. Can you imagine?

Can you imagine what it would be like if the media actually did it's job consistently (as it did in this case)?

I mean, not just for this stuff, but for everything, especially the lead up to the iraq war. Just imagine....

[JoePhilly]

66. She kicked his stupid ASS!!!!

She should be moderating a Presidential debate!!!

[spanone]

67. both of the sununu's are pretty fucking despicable surrogates.....

[Shankapotomus]

68. sununu is annoying

way too high strung...and wrong too.

[trof]

69. VIVA SOLEDAD! Brave and valiant lady.

Very refreshing.
I would even go so far as to say she follows in the footsteps of Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid.

[proud patriot]

70. Well done Soledad

Well done

[Jennicut]

71. Sununu is the worst person to put on tv, he looks and talks nuts.

He also milked taxpayers for all those rides he took on jets..one time he used a jet to go to his dentist. What a loser. Why any Repub would ever hire this idiot again. But Romney is not too bright.

[1-Old-Man]

72. My respect for that woman just jumped about 100 points, its a shame more don't follow her lead

[pacalo]

73. Good job, Soledad!!!

He was so rattled, he correctly used the adjective "Democratic" instead of "Democrat" twice!

[allan01]

75. re:WOW!!! Soledad Squashes Mitt's Spokesman (Sununu) Re: Medicare Claims

always frustrating and interisting that the r.s keep regurgitating the same old tired retreads like John Sununu. the r.s seem like 2nd time around may be a charm.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

76. Sununu: What a f*cking obnoxious asshole

Stubborn as hell and refuses to ack FACTS - especially from a GIRL. Typical Republican. Pfft.


---> Soledad

[Mutt22]

77. This is the same John Sununu

that took personal trips on government jets but labeled them as official business trips, whose family was "supposedly" in financial trouble yet spent $5000 on stamps at an auction?? He was a POS then and even worse now......

[valerief]

78. Geez, Soledad did a great job. Sununu looked like a bumbling baffoon. nt

[julian09]

80. He was also on Andrea Mitchell MSNBC today

She was a little more aggressive today than usual, she wants to make no enemies.

[Zax2me]

81. Soledad O'Brien Caught Reading Liberal Blog During Heated Debate With Romney Adviser

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021128817

[madrchsod]

82. i heard that..yup..she sliced and diced johnny boy...

[TrollBuster9090]

86. Not surprisingly, FOX NATION is running the same clip with the title "Romney Guy CRUSHES CNN Anchor.

http://nation.foxnews.com/john-sununu/2012/08/14/romney-guy-crushes-anchor-put-obama-bumper-sticker-your-forehead-when-you-do

[zentrum]

90. Soledad did great.

But the average American will not be able to understand what happened in this debate They will just see that "there are two sides to every argument"--and pick according to their pre-fabbed loyalties. They won't be able to actually critically analyze and see that one side is doing talking points and that Soledad is talking facts.

[Flatpicker]

91. Such an ugly scene

I guess that's where I'm having the problem.

We can't even discuss these issues with the other side because we're not even accepting of the same facts.
How can you expect to work with people when you can't even agree on basics like water is wet and 2+2=4.

They are so lost in their own spin that they have divorced themselves from reality.

[underpants]

93. Hold it! Romeny has had his "package" "on the table" for 6 months?

From what I have seen he has been standing there with it in his hand


On second thought "Hold it!" was not a good way to start this post.

[Bjorn Against]

97. I really hope I never have to see what you have seen.

[Kencorburn]

94. Ever since they resurrected this toad I keep looking over my back for Murphy Brown reruns n/t.

[BootinUp]

95. When Soledad said "...Republican talking point..."

I sort of fell in luv with her. heh

[Care Acutely]

98. She was awesome! Loved it. n/t

[BrooklynBoy]

99. I Saw It As It Happened

I haven't read every post in this thread, so I apologize if this has already been covered. But, the best part of the interview was Soledad's response to Sununu's repeatedly spouting the $717 Billion taken from Medicare by the ACA Republican talking point. Soledad said, almost verbatim, "That isn't true, and just because you keep repeating it doesn't make it true."

I LOVED it. And, I've been a huge fan of Soledad's for years. We need more "journalists" to call these clowns out when they spout utter bullshit (which is just about all of the time).

A good starting point would be to tell these assholes, EVERY time they refer to the "Democrat" party, that it's "Democratic" party. Nothing whips me into a frenzy more than that.

[lonestarnot]

100. They trotted out both of their bus eaters in one day, Christy and Sununu.

[Fridays Child]

101. Dang! I wanna have her baby!

[davidpdx]

103. What a fucking tool

I'd love to see an superpac run an ad with this footage and ask why Sununu continues to lie on behalf of Mitt Romney.

[Iggy]

105. Sununu = WORSE Than Krauthammer (Dr Strangelove)

this proves just how desperate the GOP is-- dragging this tired, shrill old troll out from
under his rock to ape their talking points.

WTF is this guy? he's been out of MSM media for years, and now we're supposed to believe
he has any sort of credibility??

gimme a break.

[90-percent]

107. Sununu

Sununu is ugly inside and out.

It's factcheck.org, not .com, also

-90% Jimmy

[heaven05]

112. watch out

watch out, you will get fired for destroying these repig lies. you go girl!

[Marrah_G]

123. Sununu is a nasty, unpleasant little man