Eight Times! Chuck Todd Repeatedly Writes Off Rosen Remarks As 'Manufactured Controversy'
Rally round the Rosen! On his MSNBC show this morning Chuck Todd used variations on the phrase "manufactured controversy" no fewer than eight times in dismissing the controversy around Rosen's "Ann Romney never worked a day in her life" remarks.
By the end of a subsequent segment, Todd had former Obama and Clinton adviser [and Dee Dee sister] Betsy Myers taking up the "manufactured" meme. View the video after the jump.
You really don't need a transcript. Just watch Todd doing work the White House will certainly savor.
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Good Luck w/THAT, Chuck E.
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:34am.
That tactic is as disingenuous as JJ's "I know three Hilary Rosen's" (ouch!).
The White House isn't turning it's back on Ms. Rosen, they are in high speed reverse to distance themselves from her ill conceived comments. So much for their faux war on women. Seems like they fragged themselves.
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I, myself,
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:09am.
know 4 Vladimir Putins! [sarc]
Remember "those are not the same Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers"? (These are not the droids you are looking for).
So True!
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:43am.
I'll see your 3 Rosens, and raise you a Putin!
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Up here...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:48am.
...a putin is a local delecacy.
Oh, sorry... That's 'poutine'! My bad!
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Obama Trumps All
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:43pm.
94. Sees Dead People
How do you think the MSM and
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:24pm.
How do you think the MSM and late night comics would have treated Bush if his administration would have said "I know 3 Rosens"? With the same silence as they are treating o'bama? Or would the disdain and mockery be thick as pea soup? And a new skit on this Saturday Night live?
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Manufactured ? Chuck
Submitted by Chandran on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:02pm.
As in manufacturing Zimmermans statements ?
~"Manufactured Controversy"
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:35am.
Like the "Republican War on Women"?
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:30pm.
The Left always forgets how quickly the game can turn on them whenever one of its denizens speaks his/her mind.
The scab of Rosen's wound was picked open by NOW President O'Neill last night, as the ghosts of the early Feminist Movement -- which vilified housewives and stay-at-home mothers as slaves with unfulfilled lives -- re-emerge from their inner feminists. Even Barbara Walters noted it the day after Rosen uttered it.
Talking Points
Submitted by Fenwick on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:37am.
If this "manufactured controversy" phrase was not an Obama administration talking point, I'm sure it soon will be - just like the "end Medicare as we know it" one that we heard repeated about Ryan's budget proposal this past week. I'd love to see Newsbusters pick up a bunch of these little catch phrases put out by Obama's campaign and make a lengthy video of Axelrod, Carney, Wasserman, Biden, Obama and other official spokesmen being parroted word for word, over and over, by various news media "professionals."
Or The Won can do it all by hiimself
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:44am.
See #92 (for now) on my list...."Second Verse, Same as the First".
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So Obama now has his own suicide bomber squad.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:41am.
Surprised F Chuck (and the NOW hag) didn't yell 'Allah Akbar'!
I have never seen such
Submitted by Captain Repus on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:43am.
I have never seen such sadness/depression on every single show today on MSDNC.
Every minute they spend on damage control is a minute less they can spew propoganda.
Demos: it's not outrage unless it's OUR outrage!!
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:45am.
Not unexpected. Jay Carney's morning teleconference orders their media lapdogs to keep the asinine meme of the GOP's "war on women" alive after they stabbed stay at home moms in the back and tried to cover it up. Todd is just one more example of the empty, vacant-eyed Obamatron suit who will continue to do as he is told. The "manufactured outrage" comment is particularly funny, considering they have manufactured so much outrage over so many trivialities that not even the boy who cried wolf is a good metaphor for the stupidity of the situation. It's not unlike Bernie Madoff asking for free legal help now that he is a poor prisoner.
So,
Submitted by texastommy on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:50am.
I guess that means that the first Lady and the President have participated in the manufacture of this controversy.
Yeah Chuck...we heard you.
Submitted by NeoKong on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:03am.
"Manufactured controversy"
Got it.
Shill much....?
Manufactured President
Submitted by snowoutlaw on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:04am.
Only thing Manufactured is the President. His past was Manufactured, his life was Manufactured, his religion was Manufactured, his country of origin was Manufactured. There is nothign about the guy that wasn't Manufactured except his hate for the US, non muslims and freedom.
Manufactured....
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:16am.
...just like what goes in the mouth-end of the bull eventually produces a "manufactured" product.
Shovel ready!!
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Manufactured hackery.
Submitted by forest on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:12am.
Manufactured hackery.
This President
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:19am.
has been manufactured primarily from the media such as NBC/MSNBC
They have a lot vested in this pResident and will do whatever it takes to protect him and to insure his re-election
Awe; that Chucky is such a kidder
Submitted by Conservator on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:28am.
If it was a "manufactured controversy" Chucky, why did Michelle and Barack, David Axelrod, Jim Messina, Jay Carney, have the common sense to denounce with rapid speed Ms. Rosen's remarks? Are you suggesting that you know more Chucky than the administration on relection politics? If so, it's time you go back to school for a referesher course.
MSNBC
Submitted by driguana on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:27am.
MSNBC is a manufactured entertainment outlet.....masquerading as a news outlet....
I would love to ask Todd what
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:29am.
I would love to ask Todd what the other 2 manufactured controversies were. Certainly they were others that were potentially harmful to the Republican party. Because if they were harmful to the Dems, then it would't be labeled as such.
Even THIS scenario wouldn't have been labled that if the shoe was on the other foot. But hey, he works for NBC. Actually, after the Martin/Zimmerman flap this really is minor.
What can anyone really expect from that organization?
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:30am.
Even David Axelrod threw Rosen under the bus and held her there. MSNBC is trying to resuscitate a political corpse.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Circle the wagons!
Submitted by Savonarola on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:30am.
Dumb Dem under attack. What a barf fest the libs are. Kill babies all day long, but abolish the death penalty. Truly a modified lifestyle.
manUfactured
Submitted by fivebyfive on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:32am.
Chuck U Manufactured news Todd
"Manufactured" hmmmm where did I hear that before?
Submitted by MinneMike on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:34am.
Oh, wait, there it is.
"Manufactured" voter fraud according to Eric Holder when a young white person received his voting ballot in DC.
Sounds like we have a "manufactured" theme going across the WH, DoJ, and the enabling media.
Manufacturing? Quick, tax it.
Submitted by forest on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:39am.
Manufacturing? Quick, tax it. Regulate it.
Well....
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:53am.
If you want to read some seriously funny stuff about the Rosen "manufactured crisis".....go over to MOTUS. She rocks this stuff.
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Hey J. Isn't the real "manufactured crisis" the . .
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:12pm.
Hey J. Isn't the real "manufactured crisis" the . . manufactured "War on Women," that our national MSM has been pushing for weeks now?
just saying . .
(;~/ gary
MOTUS Rocks
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:58pm.
And she gave you a hat tip for reposting. :-)
Etch a Sketch
Submitted by TSM on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:58am.
Of course the Etch a sketch comment was a REAL contraversy that the media harped about relentlessly. Oh the double standards in politics...gotta love it. It's going to be a very long spring, summer, and fall.
Yep
Submitted by DeweyD on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:09pm.
Once it was evident that Rosen's comments were damaging all things liberal, ABC Radio opened their new report: "With BOTH republicans and democrats....blah blah blah...."
I just can't get excited about Chuckie's commentary...
Submitted by KyWriter on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:28pm.
...or similar partisan spiel from any other "manufactured" journalist.
The WH has a whole industry
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:26pm.
hard at work manufacturing controversies. Like its "Manufacturing lies out of thin air" Jay Carney triple-play consulting firm. Or its "Nothing to see hear" MSM mill. Or its "It's our definition, dammit" wholely-owned NAGs subsidiary. Seems like these are the only industries adding jobs, these days, while everyone else is being downsized, blamed, illegally raided, or sued out of existence.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Manufactured news
Submitted by sherlock1 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:21pm.
I think we have to recognize that Chuck is an expert on the subject.
Very Interesting
Submitted by oldfart on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:22pm.
Hollywood does a redeux on the Three Stooges.
Except it is not about Larry, Moe and Curley but about Obama, Biden and Rosen.
Leftist Talking Point du Jour
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:33pm.
When not busy projecting their own inner evilness onto others, Leftists accuse others of doing the exact same thing that they are doing. So predictable it has a pathology.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Todd
Submitted by NewLife56 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:45pm.
Manufactured Story
1. Sandra Fluke
2. Sandra Fluke
3. Sandra Fluke
4. Sandra Fluke
5. Sandra Fluke
6. Sandra Fluke
7. Sandra Fluke
8. Sandra Fluke
It will someday be found out this idiot was on Obama's payroll.
Just coming out that Rosen was the architect of the Fluke fiasco
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:52pm.
How surprising.
What the Fluke?
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:12pm.
O.M.O.
Loved loved loved the comments on that article. Roaches, indeed.
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And here's why Fluke wants
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:51pm.
And here's why Fluke wants your money to pay for her contraceptives -- so she can enjoy Europe. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/poor-sandra-fluke-she-wants-you-to-pay-for-her-9month-birth-control-as-she-frolics-in-spain-pompeii/
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Rosen's Defense
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:57pm.
Which Sandra Fluke? I personally know 3 Sandra Fluke's and they all weren't my operative.
Dem game plan
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:46pm.
Firsat, have a hack/flack/operative spew venom and lies...they say it is all Republican's fault...ye old believe me or your lying eyes/eyes routine...Obama is a master at this and then have lapdog media spin and spin ....
not surprising SoL*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:14pm.
Rosen worked for the Human Rights Campaign and Fluke worked with several groups she started under the auspices of the HRC. Same MO that Axelrod used to get the 3 women to come out with allegations against Herman Cain. Axelrod was somehow connected to all 3 women. Axelrod continues to use Chicago thuggery as he did in Obama's congressional campaign.
Those 35 visits to the WH, only 5 was with Obama, so who else but Axelrod was her contact. Here at NB we call these people sto' bought trolls. Nothing new with this kind of smear campaign and it has Axelrod written all over it.
Todd
Submitted by rusino on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:02pm.
I can remember when Chuck Todd could make a sensible statement. Those days are far behind him.
I think this moron likes to
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:03pm.
I think this moron likes to insert the shiny object into his rectum.
American people getting fed up with State run media
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:05pm.
We are onto to the propoganda arm of the Democratic Party and through everyone's efforts, and a great big thanks to NB, more and more people see the so call mainstream for what they are; a dishonest and unreliable source for news.
Manufactured Media
Submitted by gwalt on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:08pm.
The entire media now manufactures the news for Libtard consumption. My inlaws hang on to every word uttered by any media type as long as it is a Liberal. They believe and repeat everything MSNBC and GMA spew.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Here's a solution
Submitted by greydawg on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:34pm.
Divorce your in-laws.
Mit asked Ann what women
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:08pm.
Mit asked Ann what women where interested in, in this Ann being a woman is an expert, she IS a woman. Ann does NOT have to be a working woman to know what a woman is interested in. But I guess liberals don't get that detail.
Women who will cut a B-, to hang on to dey Boo...
Submitted by MommyMia on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 2:44pm.
Sorry, but this is not manufactured. Obama voters have convinced themselves it's ok to use misogyny and racism for the sake of spreading the "enlightened and tolerant" message of the democratic party *cough,* which gifted women and minorities with record unemployment.
Democrats have come to rely completely on pointing out some discrimination on the Right, as proof that Democrats are "good for" women and minorities. They really have not practiced tolerance and respect in a very, very long time.
It shows.
MSNBC fails again
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:35pm.
MSNBC has tried to manufacture a Newsman in the form of Chuuck Todd and failed.
MSNBC fails again
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:34pm.
MSNBC has tried to manufacture a Newsman in the form of Chuuck Todd and failed.
It's not so bad
Submitted by greydawg on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:38pm.
Relax, everybody. Chuckie said this on MSNBC, so nobody heard it outside of the White House, where they nodded and game him another Attaboy.
Chuck
Submitted by Jersey Girl on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:01pm.
Did Chuck realize he was on the air?
He seemed to think it was Groundhog Day, repeating himself over and over like that.
Maybe he thought his mike was off.
Classic psychological
Submitted by ray johnson on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:04pm.
Classic psychological projection...accuse the opponent of what you've been doing successfully for years. ChuckieT is a suckophant of the administration and spews whatever he's told.
Manufacturing controversy?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 10:04am.
Well he and his ilk are the experts at manufacturing controversy, race baiting, etc.. Somehow they can't take their own medicine folks.
Enjoy watching their desperation.
So eight must be the number.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 10:20am.
The dumbocrats repeat their lie eight times and the expectation is that the sheeple are sufficiently hypnotized and brain washed to belief cows can fly.