During a news brief on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O’Donnell promoted David Axelrod, President Obama’s presidential campaign strategist, and his new book in which the Democrat criticizes Mitt Romney following the 2012 presidential campaign.
Ths CBS host played up how in Axelrod’s new book “President Obama was slightly irritated by Mitt Romney’s concession call in 2012...Listen to this. Axelrod claims that when Romney called the Republican suggested the president won by getting out the black vote.”
The CBS anchor did note that the network “reached out to the Romney camp but haven’t heard back yet” but that didn’t stop O’Donnell from promoting the Democratic strategist’s criticism of Romney without ever doubting the validity of Axelrod’s story.
According to the New York Daily News piece, it went like this: "'You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,' in other words, black people,'" Obama said, paraphrasing Romney. "That's what he thinks this was all about."
See relevant transcript below.
CBS This Morning
February 4, 2015
NORAH O’DONNELL: And New York’s Daily News says President Obama was slightly irritated by Mitt Romney’s concession call in 2012. That's according to a new book by presidential campaign strategist David Axelrod. Listen to this. Axelrod claims that when Romney called the Republican suggested the president won by getting out the black vote. Well we’ve reached out to the Romney camp but haven’t heard back yet.
