FIREWORKS as Romney Surrogate Sununu Spars With Chris Matthews Following NBC-Facebook Debate (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 8, 2012, 12:01 PM
Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu sparred with Chris Matthews following the NBC-Facebook Debate this morning.
Sununu slammed Matthews for his “agenda” journalism.
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Jack Mack commented:
Chris Matthews: the Gift that keeps on giving.
Spider commented:
Sununu was good. This is an example of ‘pushing back’ against the liberal media bias. You don’t have to accept the premise of the MSM, it’s false.
I’m surprised they were attacking Mitt, the MSM’s ordained selection to run against teh Won. I guess they are thinking a longer nomination process may be good for business.
FurryGuy commented:
The more dirt the GOP hopefuls throw at each other in the primaries is just that much free dirt the MFM can use against the selected GOP candidate in the general election.
dunce commented:
When there is violation of the law the remedy is prosecution and thus the violator is held “responsible”. Matthews knows there were no laws broken. Obama is not taking responsibility for the long list of real crimes by the OWS jerks but Matthews is not bracing him about murder and rapes all done to further his agenda and at his direction.
twolaneflash commented:
Sununu’s appearance on FOX with his bad head rug all askew was more comic entertainment than political persuasion. Were they intentionally making him look like a clown, or did reality slip through? I won’t hold my nose for another RINO/CINO. Obama wants to cut the puppy’s tail off all at once; Romney wants to do it a little at a time so it won’t hurt so much. PotAto, PotAHto.
Patty commented:
That’s fireworks? I call this trying to explain to a monkey how to swing from branch to branch.
MSNBC knows better. Chris Matthews never complained much when Bush was hammered by Gore. Seems that Sununu has so much intelligence on this subject, he makes Chris Matthews look like a monkey.
The left keeps trying to make these candidates look like they attack. Obama has attacked repeatedly the American people and Congress far worse than these ads have.
The media bias and their agenda is frighting and belligerent. The attacks on Sarah Palin or have the chosen to conveniently forgotten.
How Chris Matthews has a leg to stand on is beyond me. Oh, wait, it does stink tingle for the Commander in Thief.
bg commented:
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i agree, who knows who infiltrates opponents PAC’s..
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dmacleo commented:
thats funny as hell
bg commented:
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can’t wait until Chris Tingles holds Obama responsible for what he
says in his never ending political ads, uh, campaign speeches, er..
what are those divisive rants he’s constantly spouting called?? /s/
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Valerie commented:
Chris Matthews seems far more interested in finding an angle of attack in order to change the subject than in reporting what’s going on.
Mad Hatter commented:
#6 January 8,
Patty commented:
That’s fireworks? I call this trying to explain to a monkey how to swing from branch to branch.
LOL!
Bruce MacMahon commented:
The way I saw it, Matthews started by asking, “Should a candidate be responsible for ads produced and run by others?” then conveniently changed the subject midway through the discussion, after he gets “no” for an answer, to “So you’re saying a candidate isn’t responsible for his own ads?”. Useless clown.
a former dem commented:
I cannot stand Sanunu, but repubs better do exactly what he did no matter who the repub nominee is.
I remember in 2008 Hillary was assaulted by so many ads by that PO$ in the WH, who was never questioned, never asked about them, never took any responsibility. And most of those ads were outright lies.
Romney’s ads don’t seem to be outright lies.
The media is the demonRats. They are the S.A.M.E!
Mad Hatter commented:
#11, Valerie,
I noticed that as well. He was trying to have a ‘gotcha’ moment about Romney and his approval of negative adds. When in reality Chris “one of our hero’s from the 60′s Saul Alinsky” Mathews doesn’t have the manhood to talk about how the National Debt has gone up under Obama.
How gas prices have tripled per barrel of oil under Obama, and what the real unemployment rate is since the Obama Labor Department has stopped counting unemployed people that have stopped looking for work.
Here’s Chris Mathews in his Alinsky worship mode with the Socialist Bernie Sanders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvng7TVf-wo
Carbon Pootprint commented:
aaaahhh that’s sweet. pmsnbc is worried about spreading negativity.
Have another drink Mathews bahaahahaha
Valerie commented:
#16 January 8, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Mad Hatter commented:
Thanks for the link.
Oh, dear God. Folks, you need to listen to that link at #16. That’s Chris Matthews quoting Saul Alinsky to explain why it’s ok to lie about the other side’s position.
What this comes down to is total contempt for the voters. You have to demonize the other side, because otherwise rational people will not be excited enough to support you.
THIS IS NOT LIBERAL, IT IS UNAMERICAN. THIS IS WHAT THE F***ING STALINISTS DID IN RUSSIA, and the result was millions upon millions of people dead, and seventy years of tyranny.
Lying about the other side’s position because you need to lie in order to persuade people to vote for you is evil.
donh commented:
SunUNewWorldOrder is a westpoint neocon globalist republican . Amazing how his face has morphed into Mitch McConnell with age…drooping that turkey snood underchin. BIG Time Tea Party basher. Talks like he understands term limits but practices nepotism using his influence to push his son into high office.
bg commented:
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Mad Hatter #16 January 8, 2012 at 1:05 pm
thank you..
Valerie #19 January 8, 2012 at 1:37 pm
you too..
just a wee sample of what we are up against..
Secrets of Communion
now add the their Islamist cohorts to the mix..
Obama Administration Stacking the Deck with Islamists
bottom line: we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.. *sigh*
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Sickofobama commented:
Sununu = David Souter.
jainphx commented:
My friends==== Lost in all this is the question by tingles was a good one. The adds came from Romney’s pac, and to suggest that he didn’t either know or see these in advance is laughable. Sununu saying it’s legal answers none of the questions. Romney is a slithering snake and should be treated as one.
Jack D. commented:
MSM, in coordination with the Obama re-election campaign and Soro’s tentacle operations, want to pick the Republican candidate. At the same time they will try to weaken all the GOP candidates.
The mantra of the Democrats and the rest of team Obama in the 2012 re-election campaign is, “You think Obama is bad, just think what will happen if you allow a Republican in office.”
Throw in a heavy dose of fear and play the race card often and team Obama feel they have the successful formula.
FU#K OBAMA commented:
Finally Newt is showing the fight that needs to happen. Romney is a RINO and needs to go down. Romney will give us another 4 years of Imam Obama. Romney is who the Imam wants to run against and if choosen the Imam will make Newt’s criticism look like schoolyard play time. The LSM is all for Romney knowing they will destroy him in his battle with the Imam.
Romney is a east coast liberal who should be challenging Imam Obama in the democratic primary, who knows, he would probably win that one. Afterall, Romney and Imam Obama are not that far off each others views for American governance. They both are big social liberals, they both want to destroy the 2nd Amendment, they both hate free speach, they both want big government solutions to all our problems and they both want a EU style of socialism with a ruling elite and everyone else being servants.
Romney will never get my vote…..and I am not the only one either!
Conservative to the Core commented:
Those two deserve each other.
PetraKro commented:
The only obvious agenda to me is that Fox news and the establishment GOP is firmly in favor of a neocon in the mold of a Bush than a Ron Paul. Forget Obama for a moment, the REAL fight is over the heart of the GOP and right now the neocons in the form of Romney are back in the driver’s seat.
How did that happen????
Valerie commented:
#27 January 8, 2012 at 2:47 pm
PetraKro commented:
You haven’t been following the conversation. The REAL fight is indeed against the disastrous Obama administration. As for you not seeing another agenda, perhaps you haven’t looked.
Why is Chris Matthews so obviously inserting himself as the story, and so obviously trying to block Romney and his surrogates from speaking about their plans for the country? I think that Chris Matthews wants to block Romney’s message, because he fears that it might appeal to his viewers.
Chris Matthews explains a lot in the clip below, and at #16 above, about his approach. He thinks he personally, is allowed to lie. It’s easier for him to lie if he doesn’t have to contend with the candidate’s or the surrogate’s actual words on a topic.
In the clip below, Chris Matthews says that Saul Alinsky, his hero, taught that if you merely tell the truth, you can’t get anything done. That, of course is itself a lie. What you can’t get done in those circumstances is something that is against the self-interest of people, generally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvng7TVf-wo
We can do better than this. We don’t have to accept the big lie as a proper foundation for our public life. We don’t have to tolerate “news” sources that are self-acknowledged liars.
donh commented:
PetraKro #27 it appears that whole ” Tea Party ” thing leading up to 2010 victory was just a very sad cruel HOAX to bring the neocons back a little power from which they can feed their sadistic pleasures for tormenting the american people with disappointment.
tommy mc donnell commented:
american tass wants an obama victory. it they can’t get that they’ll take romney.
Ipso Facto commented:
Sununu just gave all Republicans a lesson in how to respond to the liberal MSM.
Boring Boehner and Milquetoast McConnell should be required to view this video 3x per day until the election.
bg commented:
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Barack Obama et al..
“Lest we forget at least an over- the- shoulder
acknowledgment to the very first radical: from
all our legends, mythology, and history…
the first radical known to man who rebelled against the
establishment and did it so effectively that he at least
won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
bit more here, in connecting links/threads..
“what the fascist left have been aiming for is to “equate” good with evil..
that’s the only way they can appease their conscience in the face of the
harsh reality they are trying to escape from because it does not fit in with
their ideological utopian matrix.. if there is no good vs evil, then all is good
even if [the] all is evil..” – bg
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chuck in st paul commented:
I love the way more and more folks are biting back at the LSM news mumblers. I loved the one the other day where the pol said, “Name them…” That really sets these asshats back on their heels. In that case the news clown just kept making the assertion and the pol just kept saying he can’t respond to some nebulous “somebody”, so name a name. Of course they can’t because THERE ISN’T ANYONE but the news clown.
I long for the days gone by where pitchforks and torches were the answer to this sort of crass asshatism by elitists in the “castle”.
Practical Jane commented:
Romney is Obama’s brother from another mother.
Newt is the man that keeps Obama up at night.
Gingrich 2012!!
tommy mc donnell commented:
it must have something to do with working at MSNBC, ever notice that they are all pi$$ed off.
bg commented:
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South Carolina Tea Partiers Wish Romney Would Just Go Away
[If Gingrich, who many view as the ultimate Washington insider, seems
like an improbable figure for the very anti-establishment Tea Party to
rally behind, consider this: some Tea Partiers now view Gingrich as an
honorary outsider because of how thoroughly Washington insiders have
been trying to politically destroy him.
"He was run out (of his speakership) by the Republican establishment, so to
speak, the insiders," Olson said. "Right now, everybody who's coming out
against him are Republican insiders. (John) Sununu, others who supposedly
were working under him (as House speaker) who were part of forcing him
out. So, in a sense it put Newt, even though he's an insider, it put him on
the outside, if that makes sense."]
btw, in case you missed it: Gingrich Wins Tea Party Straw Poll
[The poll, taken among 23,000 Tea Party enthusiasts organized by the
Tea Party Patriots, one of the nation’s biggest Tea Party organizations,
had Gingrich winning with with 31 percent of their vote, registered in a
conference call on Sunday night.]
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bg commented:
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re: #36 January 8, 2012 at 4:47 pm bg
ht JKH
Beginning at the 43:25 minute mark he goes into
exactly why Romney cannot and will not beat Obama.
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bg commented:
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Practical Jane #34 January 8, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Romney may be his brother, but Paul is his twin..
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Pete_Bondurant commented:
Sununu slapped around Mathews pretty good. I enjoyed how Mathews’ stooge tried to help him at one point. Sununu slapped him around as well.
This is how you deal with liberals. You go on the offense and you do not try to be liked. You tell the truth and deal with them head on.
Craig (The only conservative on this site) commented:
Judge Napolitano: What If the Establishment is Lying to Us About Ron Paul?
http://www.infowars.com/judge-napolitano-what-if-the-establishment-is-lying-to-us-about-ron-paul/
Ron Paul wins Idaho GOP straw poll Friday night
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-wins-idaho-gop-straw-poll/
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Craig #40 January 8, 2012 at 5:42 pm
did he speak out like this when Glenn Beck not only said it (not to
mention me & numerous others) , but explained it, but hey, what
do i know..
in case you have not been paying attention, many agree with Ron Paul
on domesticbut he’s a ding bat when it comes to foreigh issuse, besides,
Ron Paul is pro-pedophile.. so right or wrong, he’s not the only one who
thinks that way..
oh btw, Ron Paul is a BS artist too, he’s also less conservative than any
other Republican, and quite a few democrat to boot, he just spouts the
Constitution from one end to cover his hypocritical other..
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bg commented:
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re; #41 January 8, 2012 at 5:59 pm bg
pardon typo’s..
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bg commented:
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Craig #40 January 8, 2012 at 5:42 pm
wow, at least 335 people voted, @ $30 a pop,
i’m sure someone was doling out the money..
rotflmbo!!
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jainphx commented:
Ron Paul is a one trick pony, everything else about him is evil. Anti Israel for me shows a spirit that has no understanding of good. Period!
bg commented:
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Craig #46 January 8, 2012 at 6:14 pm
yawn..
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jainphx commented:
Craig==== Please quit being a drama queen. What you need is a lesson in why America’s best interest is in a strong armed force. Yeah we have problems here at home, but they are fixable peacefully. Paul would not draw that line in the sand that keeps the lid on the war mongers, War mongers who’s religion tells them to kill and steal from the infidels. Whats the difference between Obama and Paul on those issues.
bg commented:
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just a sample of way too much more:
Ron Paul Locks Up Coveted David Duke Endorsement (Video
when it comes to Sharia Law, Barack
Obama & Ron Paul are in agreement..
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bg commented:
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jainphx #48 January 8, 2012 at 6:21 pm
believe it or not, Ron Paul is actually to the
left of Caliph Obams when it comes to Iran..
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Jack Mack commented:
Chris Christie takes care of some Occupy moonbats… get ‘er done!
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287530/christie-squares-occupiers-romney-rally-katrina-trinko
squeaky commented:
would seem easy to prove one way or the other….Kyle [in an earlier article] was described as the devil of ramadi by insurgents…and then there’s jesse
http://media.photobucket.com/image/jesse%20ventura/fishbulb-suplex/Wrestlers/Jesse%20Ventura/JesseVentura002.jpg?o=13
http://voices.yahoo.com/article/9287967/jesse-ventura-baits-navy-seal-then-wishes-he-hadnt-10800859.html?cat=9
Valerie commented:
#36 January 8, 2012 at 4:47 pm
bg commented:
Newt Gingrich has been busy since he lost his position in Washington, and he has obviously continued to think and search for solutions to our nation’s pressing problems. TEA Partiers, who are independent and willing to do their own research, are likely to know this.
I think that Newt Gingrich would make a formidable, able President. The political talking heads all know this. I suspect that they are afraid that he would also be reform-minded. Both sides are scared to death that he’d upset the gravy train while he was at it.
Sasja commented:
Oh no. Craig is awake.
Bill Mad Dog commented:
The media wants to ask hard questions about the Republicans but no questions on OBAMA’s crocked agenda. The media needs to know how to question the Democrat’s agenda also.
M Sweeney commented:
Sununu – once an ass, always an ass.
bg commented:
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JUDGE NAPOLITANO IS A TRUTHER
SURPRISE SURPRISE!!
[Both Napolitano and Rivera have, er, raised questions about the
"official" (read: commonsensical) explanation for the collapse of the
WTC7 building on September 11, 2001. This conspiracy theory has
been thoroughly debunked a number of times. Apparently Geraldo
and the Judge are not convinced.]
sigh, that’s what’s wrong with these 9/11 “Truthers”, they are so smart
they out fox themselves via believing whatever they feel will stroke their
ego..
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Peggy R commented:
I just don’t get this worry that private citizens are allowed by law to put political ads in the media to say what they want to say. So what? Why should a candidate have any responsibility for what private citizens do that may or may not help his cause? The only barrier I can imagine is slander or libel of a person by such ads.
There was a strange case in an MO Dem primary probably in ’08. Some Dem challengers to Carnahan, a Congressman, printed flyers I guess that criticized Carnahan with no name of the sponsoring person(s) on it. The FBI investigated. It was discovered that Jeff Smith and other Dems produced the flyer. They denied to the FBI, however, and went to jail for the lying. Try to get your heads around this. It’s illegal to criticize a candidate for public office unless you identify yourself. It might be cheap and sleazy of a competitor to do, but shouldn’t the citizenry be allowed to criticize candidates or public officials anonymously or openly? Again, so long as the content is not outright slander or libel. Opinion is different. And we have lots of leeway on content in political ads, it seems.
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Valerie #52 January 8, 2012 at 7:11 pm
oh yes, both Gingrich & Cain are/were all about “solutions”..
btw & jmho, but it was the best by far debate i’ve witnessed in ages..
both also chose Bolton to serve in their cabinets, as well as being
endorsed by A Laffer (and a few other notables ie: Sowell).. feel
terrible having detested a man i really knew little to nothing about
because of what was said of him via the grapevine, here’s hoping
the vines sour and wither (especially Pelosi’s)..
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bg commented:
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squeaky #51 January 8, 2012 at 6:56 pm
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JBD commented:
Poor Chrisie cannot stand the heat in the kitchen.
{^_-}
charlie commented:
Chrissy needs a good Colan cleansing. However, there may be nothing left of the boy after all the crap is removed. What a horrid mman.
cary commented:
People, why fight, it is clear that some argue for the sake of arguing. Chris has always been a good journalist, Sununu on the other hand just spews Republican points and yells. People with low IQ’s always join with the other less intelligent people, its all they understand. That is why intelligent people don’t watch fox news and they don’t need to argue. Can’t wait to see this election get over and have our Government get back to work.