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MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Doesn’t Apologize for Taking Romney Out of Context — Plays More of Clip Instead

Jun. 19, 2012 1:31pm Jonathon M. Seidl

You can’t even call this half-hearted.

Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday did not apologize for heavily editing a clip of Mitt Romney (hear her original edit here) talking about a Wawa gas station at a recent campaign stop. Instead, she made an excuse, saying she didn’t get a “chance” to play the whole thing on Monday and played more of the clip to try and soften the blow meant to portray him as out of touch:

The clip Mitchell played Tuesday does offer a little more context, but it should be noted that Mitchell — after laughing at it yesterday — did not take the time to explain the full context: Romney was discussing how private enterprise is more efficient than government. Watch the full version below:

And all this raises the question: If it was simply a case of Mitchell not having the “chance” to play the full clip on Monday, then why did she even play it in the first place? If the point was to have a fair discussion on Romney and his statements, then there would be no question that she and her team would have played the full clip and given the context.

But I think we know the points wasn’t a fair discussion. It was to get a cheap laugh and mock the former governor. And they achieved their goal.

This time they just got caught.

UPDATE: The folks over at MRC TV have done the work of playing Mitchell’s edited video alongside the actual one. After seeing it, you decide if she did justice by only playing the small, extra clip she did:

This story has been updated.

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mreichphx
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:19pm
The distortion is disgraceful. After the election, we need to expose the vermin and dismiss them from true media. If you don’t report the facts, you shouldn’t be on the air. Not through sponsor boycotts or FCC license regulation. Just constantly show the lies and let the embarrassment destroy their will. The people trying to change this trend still have hope. Here is the true quote that counts:
“People in the private sector have learned to compete and it’s time to bring some competition to the Federal Government and to get it smaller, and have them respond to the customers, which are YOU!!”

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- iserve1king
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:05pm
  What exactly does her being a Jew have to do with anything?
  
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- mils
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:47pm
  andrea DID HOWEVER..HAVE ENOUGHT TIME…to pass through first of tape…play the middle…and skip the ending
  
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- DisgruntledInClinton
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:51pm
  Romney should sue MSNBC. ‘Nuff said. Hit them where it hurts.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:05pm
  Iserve1king, any cure involves identifying the problem first. Give the the credit/criticism that they deserve. But, don’t hide the fact that Jews are historically cultural changers… who once identified for their actions, claim to be the victim. Perpetrators claiming to be victims are ludicrous.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:08pm
  msnbc is still around because enough people out there do not care about the truth and what is real. they play a clip a certain way because it fits the narrative of the left.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:19pm
  Isn’t there some sort of equal time laws for broadcasters, when networks promote one candidate over another they must give equal time to the other? I thought I heard that somewhere. Maybe if Romney was a good businessman he would have lawyers all over that.
  
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- JohnnyMidknight
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:12pm
  Go to MSNBC and log a complaint. Tell them if MSN has no integrity on their news, then what ingrity do they have on MSN.com and BING! Refuse to use their services and demand a full retraction and Andrea Mitchell’s job. This is not news, it is check out counter tabloids at best.
  
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- DisgruntledInClinton
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:21pm
  Anyone who watches MSNBC is an idiot and a loser. Anyone who watches NBC is either an idiot or an uberLib. CBS and ABC not much better. CNN is occasionally, actually covering some stuff that is usually only covered by FOX. BTW, lots of people can now watch FBN (Fox Business News) that covers lots of politics, too, not just business news.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:39pm
  Any person that votes for Obama and Biden is just a lying piece of trash just like Andrea.. the left has no problems breaking number nine out of ten. They have broken every one of them.
  
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- hypnos
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:36pm
  Could of used the gap of dead air between these 2 dip sh$ts to play the whole Romney clip.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:37pm
  I want to see the FCC Licenses of creeps like this company PULLED. They don’t have our permission (and we own the airwaves) to put known faux information. We can begin with a fine…say $ 100,000 per second of FAUX INFORMATION, FIRST OFFENSE; $ 1 M per second second offense, 3rd offense? Pull their license.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:54pm
  Patty; They would rather throw dirt and see what sticks and even pay a fine before they’d submit to telling the whole truth. Yeah, they might catch a few who are believers of their blatant lies,, but not the Blaze readers. Andrea reminds me of an offensive troublemaker.
  
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- the_truth_or_not
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:54pm
  @ISERVE1KING
  
  Umm. unless I missed a paragraph somewhere, I did not see anything in the article or in the post you were commenting to about her religous affiliation.
  
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- GeoInSD
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:01pm
  I like MREICHPHX’s idea. Let NBC and dishonest reporters like them burn away by the light of truth. The problem with boycott’s is that is how the Left operates which shuts down discussion. Open discussion even greater and let the truth speak for itself.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:51pm
  Honestly!
  They didn’t expect all 13 of their viewers to be watching at the same time!!
  Much less one reporting them for being full of crap!!
  
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LibsRliars
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:17pm
In an effort to halt the massive drop in ratinf NBC has opted to run saturday night live skits 24/7. They plan to announce this new strategy after test marketing the concept in every outlet in the U.S. for a period of time projected to last until after the election.

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- GIRTHMAN
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:44pm
  God I hope its the older ones with Belushi, Radner and ackroid
  
  Cheesburger cheesburger
  
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- TeaPartyForRomney
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:58pm
  THIS IS ONLY ONE OF TWO ATTACKS:
  
  Funny that no one is talking about the second attack on the Romney’s MSNBC did in 24 hours. Last night Lawrence O’Donnell, the self proclaimed socialist, came out attacking Ann Romney’s MS therapy of horseback writing. Well a study just came out that horseback riding is probably one of the more effective methods to stop the spread of MS. All this an more at: http://tiny.cc/mxy5fw
  
  HOW DO AMERICANS LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS?
  
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- JRook
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:06pm
  The general premise that private industry is always more efficient than government or related entities is a myth. A great Republican sound bite, at best, and rarely supported by anything other than an example the individual has used for years. For those who believe in the myth please do some research and explain to me why garbage collection is now $35 a month, when it was provide free to my parents when they were paying less than $1,000 per year in local taxes. Also research local parochial or private high schools. The ones in our region are $12,000 per year, while the average public high school spends just under $9,000 per student. Clearly, the steel industry and the auto industry are not good examples of efficiency. And let’s not forget to consider the cost to the person receiving the service or product, which includes the profit and taxes and not merely the cost of making or providing the service. The world is more complex than 30 sec. sound bites.
  
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- Abraham Young
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:07pm
  They are not “getting away with it”.
  
  Every one will have their day in court before the High Judge.
  
  The more who remember this, the better off they will be.
  
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- Bob_R_OathKeeper
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:22pm
  JROOK, I think you need a kick because you are stuck on stupid.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:56pm
  Well let’s see JROOK…it’s not so mythical in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal right now it is champ?
  Thanks for playing idiot….
  
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- TurkE
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Jrookey, In case you haven’t noticed, all of the industries you mention are union dominated. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone with half a brain why these industries don’t run well and are expensive. As for the schools, I don’t think there is a person out there that thinks their kid is getting what they are paying for in publis schools, so in my opinion that’s a bad example (don’t forget they are union dominated as well).
  
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- Scarybones
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:43pm
  Jrook, really? Garbage collection costs have gone up precisely because they are run by the city or county. Public pensions cost you know. Govt. programs do not have to be as efficient because they are always backed up by more tax dollars. Private companies succeed or go out of business, there is no fallback position. In terms of the cost of schools, the public schools in my area are substantially cheaper per student than the private. Of course what you fail utterly to consider is the quality of the education. If I wanted my son to sit in a class with little to no academic accountability with 25 plus other kids I would surely send him to the local public school. Instead I pony up the money so he can actually learn something and the teacher to student ratio is 8 to 1. If you break it down in terms of that same ratio then it is significantly cheaper in terms of attention provided than the public school, which, sadly my tax dollars also fund. So please listen to your own advice and don’t spout off sound bites in a lame attempt to sound like you know what you’re talking about. I would gladly pay my tax dollars to a private company that does a better job any day.
  
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- frust@ted
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:26pm
  JROOK,
  
  You are either not being honest with yourself or you have not worked in the govmt. I have worked in the govmt and from that experience I can tell you that the govmt is full of waste, full of it! Most of my time working with the govmt was while i was in college, and it was my experinces working their that turned me from a democrat to becoming a republican to a conservative to a libertarian.
  
  Also your school figures seemed skewed did you go with the highest private school you could find in your area. Also using waste disposal is a bad example although it has been privatized it has been very corupted in many cities by govmt, by not allowing competetion.
  
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- nelbert
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:10pm
  @JROOK
  You wrote: “The general premise that private industry is always more efficient than government or related entities is a myth.”
  
  No, not always more efficient, but if the inefficiency is too onerous to the customer, they go elsewhere and the industry either figures out how to become more efficient or dies – lessons not learned by the USPS, public school systems, and myriad other gov’t agencies. Significantly, the only cases I can think of that seem to violate this maxim of business are those industries tightly intertwined with some federal or local gov’t agency (FCC, FAA, municipal gov’t, etc).
  
  “Also research local parochial or private high schools. The ones in our region are $12,000 per year, while the average public high school spends just under $9,000 per student.”
  
  And in many communities, public education is so abysmal that people figure it’s worth the higher price tag.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:58pm
  No body pays attention to Laurence O’Donnell, he’s been a has-been for way too long. All rude talk and no play. Stay away from his type, and his bro Ed Schultz. Both of same cloth.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:17pm
The only time anyone else sees this garbage is when it is posted on sites like The Blaze. MSNBC is an ineffective arm of the Obama 2012 campaign. They don’t even really try to hide it.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:51pm
  I guess I’m wrong, looks like Fox news has a huge banner main story about this stuff.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:45pm
  This hag, Andrea Mitchell can make excuses that make her look guilty. She had plenty of time to roll her eyes and knew darn well they were trying to pull the virtual wool over the eyes of intelligent people; maybe not her viewing audience, but the others of us who were bound to see this insult she tried to pull. And yes, it was done on purpose, very intentional like everything else they lie about and try to hood-wink us with.
  
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Depressed_American
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:15pm
Just another reason why I don’t watch “Mainstream” news anymore. It isn’t “real” news. Too many “so-called” reporters trying to put a stupid political spin on it. TELL THE TRUTH, that’s all we want. Keep your political crap for your personal lives, not your Public lives!!!! Is it any wonder MSNBC is rated one of the worst news networks…….

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- seeker9
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:55pm
  MSNBC is not a news network. It is the dirty politics campaign arm of the dems.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:44pm
  SEEK: As is NYT, NPR, etc., etc., etc. The Media rules . And the Media speaks ” Left-ese”
  
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- BO_Bill
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:19pm
  There is a more accurate name for the media than “mainstream”. Here is a hint: Andrea is from New York City and her given surname is not ‘Mitchell’. She is married to Alan Greenspan.
  
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:10pm
We the People are tired of your lies.

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- Dustoff
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:41pm
  But, but, but. Were not in the tank for O-dumber!
  
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- HKS
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:56pm
  Lies, lies and more lies, is their last place performance an accident, I don’t think so. NBC is just down right pitiful. Ignore them and they will go away.
  
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jas0707
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:04pm
She really is a Communist Troll.

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Docrow
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:02pm
She did not take the time to explain because she did not understand the subject matter.

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amerbur
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:01pm
The editing and attempt to misrepresent the episode is shameful. I do not know who was responsible for this edit, but they should appoligize to the public and give the public a chance to give their feedback. The responsible person should be suspended or fired.

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dsm
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
I don’t know how this bitch sleeps at night or looks at herself in the mirror. She is completely morally bankrupt along with the rest of her collegues on MSNBC

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- AvengerK
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:05pm
  When you have to make stuff up to make your guy look good, things must be pretty bad over at MSLSD.
  
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- TurkE
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:43pm
  I’f you are a blood sucking vampire, you don’t have to worry about looking at yourself in the mirror.
  
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bandi9
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
so who reported it? one of their 2 fans?

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AvengerK
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:59pm
Oh yeah that’s right…Andrea didn’t get to play more of the clip..that’s why she was laughing at and mocking Romney before the full clip surfaced to prove her wrong.
How’s that for some slimy lefty double-talk? Andrea didn’t get to play more of the clip..but launched into a round of ridicule and smear against Romney nonetheless. In an ideal world Andrea would be looking for a job today.

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- GeoInSD
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:06pm
  In an ideal world, Ms. Mitchell would have to change careers. Such a blatant slander should disqualify her as a reporter for life. I think it is worse than an athlete using performance enhancing drugs. Her behavior not only wrongly smears a person’s character but it deceives a nation, leading the nation to base decisions on incorrect information.
  
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conservativejon
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:59pm
MSM just doesnt get it. they cant do the same old lie and spin anymore. citizen repoters on the internet will catch them everytime. they cant seem to get it.

if darwin was right then they are the dodo.

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- jds1959
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:35pm
  MSNBC part of the Main Stream Media, that’s a shock
  
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Mike Benton
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
Does MSNBC pay these people for this? !

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:50pm
Did Romney study the Koran in Indonesia ??? No, that was Obama, talk about out of touch……I don’t care where Obama was born, he is not and never has been American…..I predict Obama loses in a landslide…..and republican coat tails will be very long….Dems are gonna lose big time at local and state levels…..just watch ! And they know it, and they are scared to death…..

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sWampy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:47pm
It wasn’t that she didn’t play all the clip, there were pieces missing, others stuck in where they didn’t belong, etc. It was a complete falsehood.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
  Much ado over NOTHING.
  
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- sWampy
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:36pm
  It’s not much to do over nothing, the left does this all the time, make false data to prove their case, then call conservatives liars. They did this with gays, and now millions of children are subjected to needless abuse every year because of it. They did this with global warming, took sample sets of thousands, threw out all but a few that “proved” their points, and caused energy prices to skyrocket, and they hope to go up 10 fold over the next decade, something that will all but do away with the middle class, and cause billions of poor to suffer world wide.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:42pm
  VERCE: Have read your posts since joining on June 15: “who let the Lefty dogs out ?”
  
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barber2
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:45pm
The White House hasn’t apologized for leaking classified information either. Apparently, Lefties only leak and tweak. They are spared that burdensome feeling of guilt recognition.

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- Mutiny
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:07pm
  In politics and media saying sorry is a bad move. TYou will never see that apology. When the right learns this, they will be better off.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:40pm
  And when they prosecute the Obama Administration for leaking classified information to their propaganda outlets in the media, Americans will be safer, and much better off .
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:28pm
  I think its a good thing when the truth is released.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:51pm
  INDI: define ” truth.” In this age, “truth” equates to what the Left wishes the public to hear..not necessarily what is the reality of a situation. You sound like an Anonymous kind of guy. Funny, these guys NEVER seem to get any secret information from our enemies. Only secret information damaging to America. ( But am sure Tokyo Rose, al Qaeda, and other people who hate America would share your opinion that ” loose lips are great for sinking ships ! ” Sorry you care so little about the freedoms you are afforded , and so many have sacrified for you to safely enjoy in this country )
  
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AJAYW
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:45pm
She is just another lying liberal bitch- wouldn’t know the truth if it hit her in her mule face

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Just_Us
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:44pm
What’s ironic about this is that only six people saw the original broadcast, now millions have seen it.

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Tri-ox
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:43pm
Did anyone really expect Mitchell to deviate from her White House-provided script? Andrea Mitchell is a paid propagandist and spokesperson for the democrat party and the ‘obama 2012′ campaign – this is what she is paid to do.

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KrebsCyclist
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:38pm
They think they got away with it (and both their loyal viewers agree).

That’s an ice-cold refreshing glass of Schadenfreude right there.

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Gonzo
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:38pm
Her husband ran the Fed for how many years? 20?

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70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:37pm
What a disgusting lying pathetic excuse for a human being. She has nothing but hate in her evil heart.

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SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:37pm
What do you expect from a Skank? She’s only sorry she got caught !

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- Sparky101
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:44pm
  She’s not sorry she got caught. She knows her audience. She knows they are deluded enough to believe her. They are, after all, democrats.
  
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Popp40
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:37pm
Who was really thinking that she was going to apologize and admit that they doctored the clip….

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KASHA
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:37pm
Whatever happened to personal responsibility? I remember being taught that? Don’t they teach it anymore? I believe Andrea is old enough to have been taught that in school. Did she forget?

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- Gonzo
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:46pm
  Their only goal is to see Obama reelected. Nothing else matters, not even integrity. I have very low expectations of the liberal media and I’m rarely disappointed.
  
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