Radio Host Tangles With DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Over Obama’s ‘You Didn‘t Build That’ Remarks
- Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:29pm by
Erica Ritz
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was recently put in the position of defending Obama’s inflammatory remarks in Roanoke, Virginia, where the president told business-owners, “you didn’t build that,“ and ”somebody else made that happen.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, Schultz went on the offensive, saying that the clip was taken out of context and really just a sign of desperation from the Romney campaign.
WCHE host Bill Mason began the interview by saying he was “just stunned” by the president’s speech, asking Schultz:
“Is there a fundamental difference here, where the President believes that all positive things flow from the federal government whereas Mitt Romney and many people believe that good things flow from the private sector and that they should not be demonized and demagogued for creating jobs?” [Emphasis added]
Rather than respond to the stated question, Wasserman-Schultz declared:
Bill, now [it’s] absolutely ludicrous to suggest that taking the President’s statement, which was in the middle of a speech, that that’s what that said. Mitt Romney’s campaign right now has gone off the deep end, suggesting, I mean they’re reeling in these accusations that they have no answer to. So what they’re trying to do is change the storyline away from his Bain tenure and his investments in foreign tax havens when the bottom line is that President Obama was talking about any business owner, who has been successful– you know, they obviously have pulled themselves up by their boot straps, have put their own blood, sweat and tears into making that business successful, but that nobody’s success can be credited just to themselves.
President Obama was talking about the fact that the investments made so that we can have roads to help move vehicles, so that we can have an Internet so that more business owners could actually sell their goods across the globe, so we could ensure that they have employees that get a good education, and therefore they have highly-qualified personnel to help them run their businesses.
[What] President Obama was talking about yesterday and Romney and the Republicans well-know it, was that we all need to pull together. We all need to be working together. [No] one person, no one business owner is able to do it all by themselves. We’re all in this together and that’s the approach President Obama takes to governing, so to suggest that he said anything other than that is a distraction. [Emphasis added]
Listen to audio from the show, via RealClearPolitics, below:
Without mentioning the non sequitur in Schultz’s speech– which began with the assertion that Romney’s campaign “has gone off the deep end” and ended with “we all need to be working together,“ host Bill Mason said he watched the clip ”like ten times,” trying to figure out how it was taken out of context.
He concluded: “I don’t know how else you can interpret it.”
From there, the two engaged in a back-and-forth with Schultz persisting that Barack Obama didn’t really mean “you didn’t build that”, while Mason said: “Congresswoman [it's] not out of context, I mean I went back and reviewed it. If it was, I’d say it.”
Schultz pre-emptively declared an “agree to disagree,” but commenters (at the time of this article’s publication) still seem overwhelming displeased with Schultz and her attempt to defend the president’s statements.
“The Government takes, businesses give, period,” one said. “Whatever dollars were spent…was funded by tax payers… If it wasn’t for the citizens, individuals and businesses, there wouldn’t be any dollars for the government.”
Another added: “You’ll have to excuse her, she’s … not thinking straight since someone dropped a house on her sister.”
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Comments (168)
Skybottle1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:18pmShe is nothing but a butt ugly idot, but we are idots also since we pay her $175,000.00 a year plus platinum health care for life and 100% retirement out of our pockets. Voters are dumb.
Report Post »DDD
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:36pmIs idot the new idiot?
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:53pmDidn’t bother to read this, because I consider this woman a fool and a liar who spins
Report Post »everything to make a lie easier to swallow if you don’t have a mind of your own to know who and what she is. A dam liar.
oneshiner
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:56pm@DDD. No, idot is the word to use when she isn’t good enough to earn an i in word.
Report Post »Either way, she’s one of them iggets who deserves nothing from us.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:44pmENCINOM, Tell you what, look up a transcript of that speech. Read it word for word, then come back here and tell us how anybody is taking out of context. He said what he said and that’s it, plane as day.
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:07am“you are getting very sleepy…repeat after me.”
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 4:13amAwww, poor EncinoMom, always so petulant and whiny when Dear Leader and his minions get called out for the ridiculous things they babble.
My goodness, it must really suck being you.
Bless your stony little heart, dear…
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 4:34amEncinom—
It’s not “investing” when it‘s other people’s money taken by force.
Why do leftists never seem to understand this?
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 6:54amThe roads in my town are littered with orange barrels, the schools in the closest urban setting graduate students at a rate of about 50%…….tell me again how this is such a blessing from the government..
Report Post »I wonder what roads and schools would look like if the competing free market principals were in play?
I’m waiting for o to tell me that he invented the moon just so we could have a space program.
johnjamison
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:09amThat will change Congress is fast become our enemy especially the liberal progressive like schlutz
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:16amI heard on a talk show that she and hubby have a couple big expensive houses. And to mislead anyone checking into her assets she signs legal docs as Debbie Shultz, but signs congressional papers as Debbie Wasserman Shultz. sneaky
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:25amThis is the best example of conservatives and Republicans creating a crisis and feeding their made up narrative of the President. The GI Bill, the Hill Burton Act., countless highway bills, school construction funding, the US airport system, the US port system, the Internet, etc. etc. These are all assets that have been leveraged by small, medium and large businesses to grow and prosper. So no they didn’t do it on their own.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:16amYou’re right, they do it just as soon as government gets the hell out of the way and allows them to do those things.
Report Post »SELECT
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:41pmMitt Romney’s campaign; they’re reeling in these accusations that they have no answer to.
that has got to be the dumbest statement of the year. if obozo had a record worth a crap, he wouldn’t even be talking about how great the government is for starting a business.
both ugly and obozo are nutz.
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:27pmand payed for completely.by the small ,medium and large bussineses and the private citizens that make up them.
Report Post »nealb4zodd
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 4:09pmwhat world does she live in? Its got to be difficult to wake up as Press Secty Carney does to live in a world were your boss blatently says one thing . .but you have to magically pull a david Copperfield and make believe it never happened blowing smoke up all out aassssess with the power of lies and misdirect . .. literally call all thinking Americans liars. its insulting. – Romney’s not saying Obama said this .. I mean, he is, sure. . but WE ALL heard it and know what he said and meant. Every aspect of his 3 1/2 years mirrors his sentiments that he dispises the hardworking wealthy who make it. — you get ot the top .. he expects you to give back to the bottom. which is fine if you WANT to. BUt to mandate it is unlawful and marxism. – again . the biggest donars and contributers to charities are the wealthy and conservative. – fact. they give already. – Romney gives annually to charities to the sum of that which makes us shake out head. He gives. – - meanwhile HE . .ROMNEY is being demonized?? JUST STOP… they have no argument. its bizzaro world argument.
Report Post »YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 4:50pm@OLDSHINER
Don’t you mean idjet? lol
Report Post »Shifty6
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:22pmI love how she can’t stumble out a coherant sentence if her life depended on it. Good golly if you took all the stutters, stammers and repeats you get what she says down to about 18 seconds. “we succeed by individual efforts”….thats the opposite of what he said.
It is amazing that the president says something, then she says he said the EXACT opposite! She is 180 degrees out of phase. What ever he says she blames the republicans for doing. She IS bazaro world!
Report Post »djsGA
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:17pmI think that if Obama would state that his crap is chocolate, she would be the first to take a bite and try to convince us that it tastes good.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 6:45amHe doesn’t have to say that.
Report Post »MaineOnFire
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:35amWell said DJSGA! And having listened to the wide-eyed and hopelessly tangled spinning she does for her boss, I would say she earns her high salary!
Report Post »HarryReidSmells
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:15pmYour right. Good one sounds like something I would have said.The next time I have a argument with a dummycrat I am going to use that and watch there head explode from anger.
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:29pmshe already sucks him.and swallows too.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:15pmSuccess is never accomplished without help.
Report Post »Unless your Obama the man who killed Osama by himself.
6children
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:58pmI wonder what would happen if someone would DARE tell BO that he had some help in getting bin Laden. What would he say to that???
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:04pmObama is only speaking ( out of his a$$) about his personal experiances.
Report Post »he didn’t get to be President by himself, he had Soros and others pushing him from behind.
Obama has never done anything worth mentioning or that wasn’t staged.
He had his henchmen destroy his competition to be Senator where he could continue to do nothing by voting ‘present’ and then not even doing his job there because he was on the fast track to be placed into the Presidency by the efforts of others.
oneshiner
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:59pmWell, I think the guvment paved the rodes for him and we all helped hiz success.
Report Post »ilovetheusa1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:13pmDebbie “was a man” Shultz must have graduated from the Obama school of lies. this thing is such a liar.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:35pmIts great watching the Beck’s trained monkeys type responses to news articles. Unable to think for yourrself you guys can only repeat what Beck and Fox tells you.
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:18amDebbie “Does D.C.” Shultz is unable to comprehend that the taxes on the wealthy, and the people they employ, are what the government uses to build and maintain the infrastructure they use. Undoubtably, Obama would want the credit for what others have done but that doesn’t mean he deserves it.
Report Post »Free_Thinker
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:33amENCINOM- you can watch people type? You are a total moron. Those of us that can listen and watch the video clip of the POS POTUS know exactly what he said. Spin it however you idiots want now after he’s been called out but we all know what he said and meant.
Report Post »Cranky
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 6:41amENCINOM- A few weeks ago, after similar comments were made by the Indian wannabe, I was talking to a friend who voted for Obama. I was complaining about how my wife could not get away from our business on time to participate in the group bike ride we were about to go on and mentioned how busy she is with the ever increasing government crap she has to deal with. He smiles and says “Oh, so you can enjoy all the services and infrastructure provided for your business??“ I looked at him and thought ”you dumbass, just repeating todays liberal talking points”. I saved my breath.
Report Post »All of you liberals are fools. You are a prime example.
rickinpa
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:01amYeah cry why don’t you? This is nothing like Wasserbag Schultz and the dems jumping all over Romney‘s line about liking to have the power to fire people who don’t do a job right. Dems are such hypocrites. A REAL LEADER FINDS A WAY A REAL LOSER FINDS AN EXCUSE in your heart you know which one OBama is, in your mind I’m not so sure! Fact is historically speaking it would almost be impossible for Romney to do a worse job than obama
Report Post »michael48
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:02aminsaneom…bath-salts bad…kool-aid good….moron!!!!
Report Post »rickinpa
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:04amSpeaking of trained monkees not on topic but maybe you can explain how obamacare will add 30 million people to our healthcare system without adding a single hospital, doctor or nurse yet not affect the quality of our healthcare?
Report Post »landowner
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:20amCranky – You know it has been hard but I stopped hanging with the dummies. I miss some of them but they need to be taught apparently that their way of thinking is wrong. Nothing else is going to work. I am sure you will miss you friend for a bit but you’ll make new friends and they will have a clue and all will be well.
Report Post »Cranky
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:22pmLANDOWNER- I keep those people at an arm’s length away but close enough that perhaps I can influence them. You are right.
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:39pminsultimon, why do you always call black people monkeys.not everyone here is black.you swallow oblameos goop like debbie.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:50pm@Encinom….how is it that you know everything Beck and Fox say? I mean without actually listening to or watching either of those two 24 hours a day 7 days a week?
It‘s not Glen Beck’s or Fox News fault that you just can’t seem to come to a “final eruption” during your Rosy Palm sessions while Beck or Fox news is blaring from your 17 inch flat screen day and night. Put on some Gap Band or Isley Brothers or Ohio Players and you’ll get there soon enough.
Neither Beck or Fox news were meant to be aphrodisiacs….so turn out the lights…put on Skin Tight by the Ohio Players…and get down with your bad self. You‘ll be less cranky tomorrow and you can throw the bed sheets right in the hamper with nobody even knowing it because it’s Friday…and your mom does laundry on Fridays…while she is watching the Price is Right.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:10pmobummer has a LOT of SPOKESPEOPLE doesn’t he
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:09pmTHIS is the same defense a liberal co-worker gave me today!!! “he was taken out of contest and what he ”meant” to say was….blah blah blah..” Sanatoriums should be restocked with their escaped lunatics immediately!!!!
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:08pmWhat has that got to do with taxing the beejeebies out of us if we own a small business, Ms. Wasserman-Schultzie?
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:01pmThis is the DNC spokes-hole? Rather than come up for fresh air by admitting that all we heard is what was said, she buried her head deeper up her @$$, if that were possible!
We’ve yet to see how low the Left will go to defend The Captain of The Ship of Fools and Hero of the Stupid, Barak’s Insane Obammy!
Report Post »lwillis59
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:13pmthe new normql.. right is now wrong..backwards is now “forward”. moral is now im moral…. . 2+2=5 …they are trying to convience us that we can no longer trust YOUR OWN EYES, AND YOUR OWN EARS.
Report Post »DTOM31
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:56pmBlaze editors, I told you before to give us a warning disclaimer before you post her picture on the website. Gheeesh!
Report Post »FreedomWitness
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:52pmAmen! I’m down to my last eye!
Report Post »Jimmielynn
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:54pmI’m a Social Worker (albeit a conservative one) and I am pretty understanding of different viewpoints but lately I feel like I have entered a dimension of irrationality. The Democrats have gone crazy and none of what they are saying or doing makes sense.
Report Post »nanmc
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:24pmSome people say liiberalism is a mental disorder. The more I see and talk with them the more I agree.
Report Post »landowner
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:22am“Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious.”
Report Post »Enchanted
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:52pmHow can you take it out of context when you hear the words come out of his lips? give me a break wasserman. barry wouldn’t know what it was to hold a job much less build one if it hit him in the face. you cannot defend what isn’t defensible.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:31pmWhen the President said “You Didn’t Build This” he was obviously referring to the nation’s transportation infrastructure.
The President has always been supportive of entrepreneurship. Mr. Beck won’t play those soundbites. Mr Beck won‘t describe President Obama’s policy initiatives that support entrepreneurs except when the businesses fail, as most businesses do within 5 years.
Report Post »This is because Mr. Beck is a propagandist, not a reporter, and not interested in the truth.
bdMarco
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:28pm@MaryBElizabeth, that is not what the President was saying and that’s not what Elizabeth Warren was saying before him. The idea that a person doesn’t succeed on their own is a common theme among Democrats today. It is the justification or pretext for what they are really after – the destruction of all property rights. What Obama and friends are really saying is “We have a right to your Property!”, “You owe us!” because you used public goods or services to produce or distribute it. This is an affront to individual rights and everyone knows it.
Report Post »osgeek
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:36pm@marybethelizabeth
Report Post »If oblamer loves small business why is he raising taxes right at the point where most small businesses begin? Owning your own business, $250k is relatively easy to make, however these are the people employing others and increasing taxes on them makes it difficult to hire more people and expand their business.
armyofnibiru
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:52pmmary the govt is a tick on the dog ,not the dog.and the only windfall profit on oil goes to the govt the result of this is gas three times what it should be.the definition of windfall cannot be changed by the wife of a man who tryed to change what the definition of is is .
Report Post »sandtown
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:51pmI can’t beliebe that these people actually spew this drivel with a straight face.
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:51pmA legend in her own mind.Little Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:47pmDon’t listen to my words; look at the other guy’s short coming. Why would you people try to understand me when you can’t even build a business?
The level of lies and double talk are astounding.
Report Post »village idiot
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:46pmI love angry crazy jewish women they are so much fun to watch. Stupid but fun to watch.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:44pmLiberals sponge off conservatives, not the other way around…….
Report Post »davetrav
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:43pmMaybe even you Debbie might get smart seeing what a jerk Obama is, but being your not to bright,
Report Post »you may not even get it.
Chromo200
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:43pmS#$t I thought I was going to go a whole week without reading/listening to Debbie. There goes the rest of my week.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:42pmHorse face comes to mind…….
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:56pmwrong side of the horse
Report Post »LB
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:41pmHow does this woman get elected? She is the problem and a liar
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:41pmSocialist……..marxist, and communism supporter is wassameerrrmanaman
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:40pmThat Schultz is one ugly dude and stupid. Are there any normal people in this idiots district? Are there enough to put her out of our misery?
Report Post »mdman
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:39pmSchultz is another anthony weiner… no different
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:49pmOh my God, I just want to see her pictures.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:08amGeez, gotta proof read these things. That should be that I NEVER want to see her pictures.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:35pmkinda of hard for psycho to defense another psycho.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:14amI rarely ever see liberals try to defend her defense… that‘s sayin’ something.
Report Post »I won’t watch video of her, can’t do it. There is really no need. I already know the crap that‘s commin’ out of her mouth before she spews it. I’m almost there with the president. He accidently says what’s in his heart every once in a while. How did someone who does not think like an American attain the highest office in the land?
mule creek ridge
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:34pmThat ole Wasserman-Slutz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There IT goes again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »FAITH47
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:40pmYes Mule you are right.
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