MSNBC Hypes Minor Romney Gaffe, Edits Video to Remove Substance of Argument, Suggest He's Out of Touch
The next time a liberal friend of yours -- with a straight face -- tells you that MSNBC is concerned with substantive campaign reporting, you can throw this back at them.
The Right Scoop blog has an excellent post today -- be sure to also check out Soopermexican's original post -- about how the network's latest fixation: Mitt Romney mistakenly calling the Wawa convenience store chain "Wawa's" and seeming to be enthralled with their system for obtaining made-to-order sandwiches. Afternoon anchor Andrea Mitchell hinted at a long-since discredited "supermarket scanner" meme about President George H.W. Bush, suggesting Romney was unfamiliar with touch-screens in convenience stores. But missing in the network's fixation on the minor gaffe is the substance of Romney's comments, Right Scoop notes:
He was making a comparison of the government vs private sector, how difficult it was for a optometrist to change his address via the post office vs ordering a Hoagie at Wawas.
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Romney isn’t out of touch here at all. Whether you like his comparison or not, it was absolutely not what was represented by MSNBC.
Here's the unedited video that MSNBC won't show you:
And here's how Mitchell fixated on the trivial to mock Romney:
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Comments
It's Amazing
Submitted by rman2 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:40pm.
What is amazing is how these idiots think they can edit a clip and it will not come out that it was edited. Long live alternate media. Not many years ago they would have gotten away with this. Not any longer...maybe they will begin to get a clue! Probably not!
They don't care
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 8:48pm.
They know that only a subset of those who see the first clip will every see the real clip, so they're good with a few finding out. It's more than worth it to them.
So Freedom of the Press allows this, but Freedom of Speech doesn't allow slander or yelling FIRE in a store. Interesting. The latter is freedom, requiring responsibility. The first is freedom, requiring nothing.
I miss Wawa
Submitted by JeffC... on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:47pm.
I grew up in southern New Jersey and loved Wawa's sandwiches. You order them at a touch-screen and customize them exactly as you want them by adding and deleting ingredients before you finalize your order. That way, your custom order isn't dependent on how you and the person taking your order can understand each other.
I miss them because they don't have Wawa here in southern California. Unless Mitt lived between Bayonne, NJ and Fredericksburg, Virginia, he's probably not familiar with them.
I've only seen one other chain restaurant with a touch-screen ordering and customization system--Carl's, Jr. If you have only lived between Bayonne and Fredericksburg, you've never been in a Carl's Jr.
Wow--adding a "'s" to the name of a business when referring to it--that's just plain ignorance. /sarc
Jeff
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:49pm.
Did you hear about Wawa suing a store called "Haha" for copyright infringement?
My favorite WaWa is the Doo Wop one in Wildwood.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:52pm.
Never closes. Ever.
SOL
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:02pm.
Where are you from? We may have gone through this before...
Joisey, Rad.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:10pm.
.
Aah
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:11pm.
We used to go to Stone Harbor for years. Shoebies!
Rad:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:36pm.
Yeah, Stone Harbor is great... very laid back, and really nice wide beaches, altho not as ridiculously wide as WW or WW Crest.
Wawa in Bayone?
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:53pm.
I've seen them as far North as Somerville, but typically only see them when you get close to Philly.
Nice places though. They totally kick Quick Chek's arse.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Not sure where Somerville is
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:04pm.
But they are as far north as the Lehigh Valley, and Sheetz has been moving east towards us too...
Bayonne was a guess
Submitted by JeffC... on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:08pm.
I remember only as far north as Rocky Hill, NJ (and forgot about the one further up US 206 in Hillsborough), but I figured they had more locations in North Jersey, so I picked the first city that popped into my head. It turns out they have a location further north in Parsippany. They're now opening around Orlando, FL.
Wow!
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:15pm.
I work in that town!
That must be new. Didn't know that got up this far. They're way over on the East side of town though!
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
There is one in New Milford too.
Submitted by stunned on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 10:37pm.
There are WaWa's in Bergen County right outside NYC where I grew up. Quick Check in Butler has the touch screen to order sandwiches also.
tired of liberal lies
WAWA moving north...now in Parsippany.....
Submitted by Paarl on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:17pm.
taking over NJ....however i have a complaint....their coffee has hit the skids....
paarl of rhodesia
Our Wawa is so crowded in the morning
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:20pm.
My husband goes to Dunkin Donuts. He says the coffee is better.
Never seen one
Submitted by IndianaCarl on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 11:33pm.
I'd probably go amazing, too. But I'm in that culture-less area of the country known as the midwest. We don't have that chain here in Indiana, and I've never seen one.
Hardee's is Carl's Jr. as far as we're concerned, too.
God Bless the U.S.A. and the troops that defend her and her Constitution.
Mitchell is just jealous Mitt still has his internal organs.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:48pm.
Last time she ate, they were putting the finishing touches on the temples at Abu Simbel.
Andrea Mitchell is a tired old hag
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:49pm.
She has nothing to come home to but a 80 year old husband who passes out during dinner. So she has to obsess about her left wing politics, and it's destroyed her old reputation as a journalist as she has become a Journolist.
So Andrea uses the word "amazing" at the end of her edited clip.
Submitted by richard on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 10:47pm.
...as a mock to Mitt for using the same word, to discribe his statement about how amazing the difference is between private and government busineses operations. She purposely cut the tape as needed to get her snarky "amazing" to show Mitt's ignorance at sandwich ordering.
Well, her reported tape was also edited, by the network, to eliminate her ten seconds of honesty. In all actuality, it continued past her "amazing" statement to include....it's amazing ( how me, a gerbal faced, washed up, desperate for a man, any man, sad excuse for a woman can keep my job on tv when it's next to sickening to watch me report.)
Did I forget to mention that I can't stand this bi*ch?
The skank is married to ...
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:51pm.
...Alan Greenspan. Go figure.
Pathetic, old
Submitted by ray johnson on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:56pm.
Pathetic, old retreads...Don't these people ever look at themselves and realize what a load of spew they're subjecting everyone to? If Obamao goes down, it's like the end for them? Why is that?
I bet Romney knows how many states we have
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:57pm.
Obama would eliminate those touch screens from Wawa because they kill jobs, just like ATM's.
They will never learn
Submitted by wingnut55 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:08pm.
Just like the "black cloud" over the United States. Only those who are dumb enough to watch only that network will sit like that guy with his mouth open catching flies would believe it.
Not sure what is taken out of
Submitted by Shreve on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:16pm.
Not sure what is taken out of context more, this or Obama's "private sector is fine" line.
Obama is better off being
Submitted by ant on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 11:52pm.
Obama is better off being 'taken out of context'. The more of him you hear the worst, the more idiotic and more despicable he sounds. Cutting Odumbo off mid-sentence at least keeps his image intact for awhile, minus the 'uhhhs', 'ahhhs','errrs'...'lies'.
I challenge Andrea to show
Submitted by allouchsit on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:21pm.
I challenge Andrea to show the whole unedited clip. She won't, though, because she is a liar.
E-mail to MSNBC
Submitted by IndianaCarl on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:27pm.
The following is an e-mail I just sent in to MSNBC.
In reading the headlines on MSNBC today, you see that Roger Clemens was found not guilty of lying. Perhaps Andrea Mitchell needs to appear before Congress to explain why she is lying by omission in reporting on Mitt Romney at WaWa's restaurant. Perhaps you feel that reporting on an item in an unbalanced way to make fun of a Presidential candidate is the proper way to do business. If so, please let us know when you're going to poke fun at 'the private sector is doing fine'. Certainly taking the comment by Mr. Romney completely out of context, you have totally changed the focus of the story from how he's encouraged that the private sector is innovating things and instead attempted to make a mockery of him and his campaign. Of course, you're doing an excellent job of making a mockery of being news reporters by showing liberal bias - exactly as Bernard Goldberg accused Dan Rather. I realize that was CBS - you're allegedly the competition. Perhaps if your organization wasn't so blatantly acting biased you might figure out that here in mainstream America, we have the internet and we can find out the truth about things ourselves - and perhaps you'd figure out why your viewership continues to dwindle.
Or perhaps not. Please continue as you've been doing, and you'll find yourselves relegated to the trash heap of history as a forgotten piece of discarded rubbish. In the meantime, you can be completely certain that when I click through my channels, so long as you continue to show blatant bias, I'll continue to click right past EVERYTHING that your network shows.
God Bless the U.S.A. and the troops that defend her and her Constitution.
Out of Context
Submitted by desert3030 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:32pm.
The joke of the week end was were the Coyotes sending gifts to HLS and Jan? The price went from $1,500 to $5,000 for aged 30 and below to get in.
Living in Phoenix I knew she would come back and haunt us even more. Glad Holder is selling guns on the low here, at least we have a "WalMart" Federal agency helping us get through amesty.
A Deft Job Of Editing
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:39pm.
A first-class job of editing can completely alter the facts of a speech or interview, why if the editor is deft enough they can even make the TV "talent" on MSNBC appear modestly professional.....but only on rare occasions.
Mitchell
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:01pm.
stop the elite, arrogant and judgmental attitude. You have very few viewers paying the least bit of attention to anything you say. Put a jacket on also and quit trying to be some young attractive journalist......it ain't working
Ali Baba bought a franchise
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:09pm.
He calls it Baba Wawa's.
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Submitted by Chaitealover on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 10:04pm.
Groannnnnnn
MFNBC editing a news video?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:11pm.
Who'd a thunk?
none of the links go to
Submitted by dmacleo on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:23pm.
none of the links go to rightscoop site.
think this is one you wanted
http://www.therightscoop.com/msnbc-caught-redhanded-smearing-romney-as-o...
D'oh! Thanks, corrected it.
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 9:13pm.
D'oh! Thanks, corrected it.
I first this at Right Scoop but Soopermexican broke the story.
Hey, Andrea, remember this one?
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:23pm.
Your hero and his "Polish Death Camps" gaffe? I'd call an insult to a sovereign nation and ally(at least until Baracka gets done giving away the world when he gets more "flexibility") a wee bit more important than this. Now go home and hang yourself up in your closet.
How many of the 57 States
Submitted by richflanj on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:23pm.
How many of the 57 States have a Wawa?
Any Navy Corpse-men know the answer?
I could go on and one with plenty more REAL demonstrations of Oblameos idiocy, but you get the point....
AT least Wawa's is hiring
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 8:25pm.
They have a lot of employees with that all important three letter word, JOBS.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
That's four letters.
Submitted by Shreve on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 8:38pm.
:)
Tell Biden
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 8:40pm.
K
Can anyone tell me where the first ever Wawa
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 8:31pm.
Was located? I think I lived right down the road.
First Wawa
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:07am.
The first store was in Folsom, PA in Ridley Township.
I remember going to the Wawa diary farm, west of Media, PA, on a school field trip when I was a kid.
I thought it was Thunder Hill
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:24pm.
Columbia MD, still the only one I ever knew
And if Obama was President
Submitted by ant on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:36pm.
And if Obama was President when Wawa was going from a fledgling store to big company expansion providing customer satisfaction in 3 of the 57 States...it would all be just a memory. "Wawa? Oh yeah, that was that little store in Folsom that closed down years ago..."
I'm from California. To us back here Wawa can only be...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 10:00am.
one thing. Barbara "Wawa" Walters.
How DARE Mitt Romney call Wawa store "Wawa's"!
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 9:37pm.
Mitt Romney will be scolded for LIFE for this one. Meanwhile President Obama is vacationing in the 57th State in the US and talking to some Marine Corpsemen......
Look at this way: My guess is
Submitted by Bettendor on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 10:40pm.
Look at this way: My guess is Romney lives in an area that doesn't have any Wawa stores, thus he may not be familiar with them. Second, as has been stated before, there aren't many places with the touchtone ordering screen. Third, I'll put good money that there are a good number of people who are REGULARS at Wawa who call it "Wawa's" (I think we had a couple right here in our comments). Finally, I'll also put good money that our dear Andrea Mitchell (or any of the other MSNBC hosts and anchors, for that matter) spend a lot of time at Wawa or any other place like it where regular people go.
Meanwhile Odumbo and the
Submitted by ant on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 11:56pm.
Meanwhile Odumbo and the Mooch will eventually be mandating 'nutrition controls and restrictions' on those same hoagies...wait till Mooch has the touchscreens refuse to take your order if you want cheese, salt or anything else besides arugula. I prefer a mispronunciation and the freedom to eat what I choose than the Marxist misfit and thunder-thighs over-bearing Statism.
Andrea Mitchell calling anyone "out of touch" is absurd
Submitted by OxyCon on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 1:14am.
Cloistered in her beltway mansion, probably burning hundred dollar bills for incense while hobnobbing with all her beltway snob friends, she reeks of privilege.
Fiction!
Submitted by LaVallette on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 7:28am.
Journalists our intellectual masters! Yerkkkkkkkk!!!! They do not even attempt to hide their dishonesty,
Does she still have that
Submitted by sngnsgt on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 9:53am.
Does she still have that aspirin between her knees?
Mrs. Greenspan is out of touch with the truth. Why...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 9:57am.
anyone except people who don't care about the truth would watch her show (or any show on MESSNBC) is beyond me.
This woman is so ugly she makes Greta Van Susteren look good in comparison. Sorry Greta.
Andrea
Submitted by TNcracker on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 10:26am.
Pizza faced Andrea is beyond despicable, like all their anchors. Imagine how much the MSM has probably been deceiving us for years, including phony polls. Total corruption is being exposed, & it's no wonder their ratings are tanking.
Andrea Mitchell needs to be
Submitted by marpel on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 10:46am.
Andrea Mitchell needs to be fired over this propaganda
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
Andrea Mitchell needs to be
Submitted by marpel on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 10:49am.
DITTO
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
Andrea Mitchell needs to be
Submitted by marpel on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 10:49am.
DITTO
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
TAKE ACTION
Submitted by rickinnyc on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 1:44pm.
[Not sure if links can be published] Enough of this trash, use your search engine and find MSNBC Contacts, send emails first to MSNBC-TV General, copy it and paste it into a second email of protest to Andrea Mitchell. Note to MRC: We once picketed NBC w/ you, it's time to organize one again.
If you search deeper you'll also find the voicemail & fax for their Communications Director; please do something today.