Some Never Learn: MSNBC Caught Selectively Editing Romney Video to Make Him Seem ‘Out of Touch’
- Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:40pm by
Erica Ritz
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UPDATE: Mitchell responded to the controversy on Tuesday. Watch how she addressed it, but didn’t apologize, here.
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After NBC was caught selectively editing the George Zimmerman police tapes to make it seem like he was volunteering racial information, MSNBC has been caught editing a clip of Mitt Romney to make him seem wildly “out of touch,” when he was really just explaining the difference between the private and public sectors.
In the MSNBC clip, Romney is shown discussing Wawa’s convenience stores like he has never been to one before (presumably because he is “too good” for such an establishment).
Introduced by Andrea Mitchell saying: “I get the feeling–take a look at this– that Mitt Romney has not been to too many Wawa’s along the roadside in Pennsylvania,” Romney says: “I was at Wawa’s, I wanted to order a sandwich. You press the little touch tone keypad, alright, you just touch that, and you know, the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there’s your sandwich. It’s amazing.”
Momentarily speechless, Mitchell repeats, “It’s amazing,” as her guest breaks into sharp laughter.
Too bad the clip was taken wildly out of context.
In reality, Romney was illustrating the difference between private and public sector efficiency. After telling a story where his friend had to fill out a 33-page form twice to complete a change of address with the government, Romney holds up touch-tone sandwich-ordering as an example of private sector efficiency– not as a marvel of how the “common” man lives.
Watch Andrea Mitchell’s version here:
And watch the real clip, here:
Even Politico wrote a story on the speech today, failing to add any context whatsoever to “Romney’s Wawa visit.”
Right Scoop concludes: “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.”
(H/T: Right Scoop)




















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Comments (290)
ClaudeRains
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:13pmI’m shocked that a news organization with such a stellar reputation would….what?…it’s MSNBC?…never mind. On another note Andrea Mitchell is at least a 3-******.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:45pmDrudge ran a report where said network spliced in exploding busses in a story of Romney’s bus tour. Courtesy of that Bashir guy.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 8:13pmAnd Andrea dahlin’, you are in the public eye and have mega bucks with your creepy hubby……do try to limit the red wine and invest in some teeth whitener. You’re welcome.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 8:21pmNOW THEY are crossing the line. It’s one thing to have opinion folks on spouting whatever they think…it’s totally another mis use of the first Amendment to publish FAUX information knowingly.
CAN’T they (shouldn’t they) lose their Broadcasting Licenses? The airwaves BELONG (like the gov) to the PEOPLE. LET’S see what we can do about demanding TRUTH !! I don’t care if you disagree with me 180 degrees as long as you are telling the truth and not manipulating the news…HELLFIRE, that’s like the C— they do in RUSSIA (still) and what we’ve fought against since our Precious Nation got started. They just spit in the wind.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 8:35pmI am surprised they didn’t jump on the rape case homicide in Texas since the the actor was a green card carrying Mexican … Of course, that case hasn’t gone before the grand jury just yet, so let’s keep our prayers for the father and family that they are delivered from this twisted legal system …
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 5:57amShe’s at least 60. Hobbs, not while we are watching. I always imagine that eye thing from “Lord of the Rings”. It’ll turn. Then they’ll pounce.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:41amHow low can MSNBC go? Wait a minute!!!!! Don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.
However, I must say, I’m not at all surprised. Remember, the government is allowing propaganda these days. And now we know what channel it is being broadcast, don’t we?
Report Post »Shifty6
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:20amI don’t see the difference. Those videos are nearly identical. Once you get all the context, and relavent information out of the way.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:38amWho does this Horseface *itchell think she’s fooling?
Oh, yeah. Liberals. Too easy.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:48amIt‘s got to the point where if MSNBC isn’t doctoring footage, audio and photos there’s something wrong.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:56amNot only do I hate Andrea Mitchell, I despise her and her wickedness. I can easily see her on a broom……….Can there be a more wicked woman than this one? and ugly!
Report Post »I laid awake all night after hearing this clip on radio. Only I heard the entire clip, not the distorted, cut, clipped & pasted, dishonest, outright lying to us, to achieve their own agenda of faking news.
That’s what MSNBC and their ilk do, they distort everything, misinterpret the truth. They will lose their souls to the Devil. There’s nothing more evil than telling a portion of the news to advance THEIR side & personal gain Andrea Mitchell is good at this, why I hate the witch.
Tell the truth, report the truth or get the hell out of the kitchen, you witch.
clemV
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:57amWE DO NOT NEED THE MSM TO MAKE ROMNEY APPEAR OUT OF TOUCH. He’s done that quite effectively all by himself.
We could have had better, we could have had Ron Paul. You neocons are going to get what you deserve – a lame duck president that pushes more of the same big govt agenda. Thanks guys, thanks a lot.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:26amAndrea Mitchell looks like she might be on some serious drugs — Maybe Prozac??
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:12pmThey have been caught the last 5 times they have tried this. To say that their reporting is now considered a joke is an understatement.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:26pmThis is what MSNBC and all the Progressives do not understand.
I GUESS NOTHING EVER CHANGES!
A 31 year old video clip ABSOLUTELY worth your time
http://dauckster.posterous.com/a-31-year-old-video-clip-absolutely-worth-you
LAT
Report Post »encinom
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:28pmI bet the stellar staff at the Blaze cover the Mitt add where he edited the statements of Obama so badly that even conservative talking heads were aghast.
Mitt is a rich man trying to convince the poor, ignorant tea baggers that he is one of them.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:43pmIs that what your keepers told you to keep reciting ENCIDIOT/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO? That Romney‘s trying to convince us he’s “one of us”?
Report Post »No ENCIDIOT…Romney’s not trying to do that at all. He‘s trying to convince us that he’s the better man for the job. That‘s a lot different isn’t it champ? You see..the current do-nothing/know-nothing that‘s warming a chair in the oval office has no clue what he’s doing nor does his politicall charged Keystone Kops administration (I have to laugh when the word Keystone comes up…Barry certainly botched that one when he put greenie fund raising over American jobs). Does that sound like someone who’s “one of us” ENCIDIOT? A clown how courts greenies, hollywood elite, marxists and socialists and their attached human debris in OWS? Really? That’s “one of us” to you?
NHwinter
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:50pmencinom – as if Obama, Pelosi, Soros, etc. aren’t rich. You are such a child and can only resort to calling the Tea Party names. Pathetic, indoctrinated person.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:16pmOne must not pay much attention to anything dispensed by NBC, they have their own agenda and the truth is not on the list. Assume everything they do is a lie and you will be OK.
Report Post »SnowKalBebes
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:18pmOne would only hope that Beck’s sheeple would show the same shock and disgust when Fox selectively edits videos or when Brietbart selectively edits videos or when that little twerp who goes around with his hidden camera and edits those videos. Right? Same shock and disgust right sheeple?
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:22pmI agree re a 3, IF you are comparing her to a scale where Betty White, is a 10.
Report Post »Goodforall
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:24pmStellar reputation-yea right! They have no viewership because of exactly this BS type of biased reporting-and Andrea Mitchell? Give me a break! That leftist hag is pathetic-her head is so far Obammy backside it would snap clean off if he stopped fast! Time to start revoking these peoples credentials-they definitely don’t deserve to be reporting anything!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:29pmPleeze: Mitt is NOT out of touch any more than I am. Just stupid rhetoric when you have nothing else to complain about. Sorry about Ron Paul. He’s a nice man, but most of us don’t agree with him on all he stands for.
Report Post »Doris
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:42pmReally. Wait until about august or even september its going to be really rough going. If all the rep. would get behind Romney and show a united party we might win..After all a house divided yada yada.
Report Post »nama
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:08pmIs it any wonder why TV NEWS/stations are fiscally in the tank? This woman makes an obscene salary and yet considers this NEWS! ??? She needs to take a long vacation with Alan….
Report Post »Clive
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:22pmromneys been doing the same thing to obama for months, quit being a crybaby mitt, and fight.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:25pm“WE DO NOT NEED THE MSM TO MAKE ROMNEY APPEAR OUT OF TOUCH. He’s done that quite effectively all by himself. ”
Totally agreed. He was born to a millionaire politician. He dodged the draft five times. He owns a dancing horse that he uses as a tax deduction. He’s like john kerry, but worse.
Report Post »Patriciade
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:10pmyes well they have what an audience of family members if even they support thtat network..
Report Post »But the same thing someone was chastised over when enough of an uproar was made..
Thank goodness they are SOOOOO irrelevant.
Tony in MO
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:59pmAndrea Mitchell is Obama’s Monica Lewinsky
Report Post »quigonpaj
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:55pm@PattyHenry:
“NOW THEY are crossing the line. It’s one thing to have opinion folks on spouting whatever they think…it’s totally another mis use of the first Amendment to publish FAUX information knowingly.
CAN’T they (shouldn’t they) lose their Broadcasting Licenses? ”
>>>
If that were indeed the case, wouldn’t Fox have lost its license for the countless claims about finding WMD in Iraq, not to mention the numerous deliberate misrepresentations of opponents’ positions, and the clever use of “they’re saying that <insert derogatory statement about Democrats" (when it is clear that the "they" is the editorial staff of the news channel?
Be careful what you wish for.
Report Post »Pray for USA
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:10pmAndrea Mitchell should be put on leave of absence, at the very least. Blatant smear.
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:49pmIt was immoral, unelthicle and down right mean spirited. Good thing now one is watching.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:53pmJust a week ago Ann Curry of NBC‘s Today Show was complaining about how President Obama’s “private sector is doing fine” gaffe was taken out of context.
Ah, the splendid hypocrisy (and unscrupulousness) of the liberal media.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:20amI replayed Andrea’s cut & pasted, distorted, doctored, lying clip, and she a PIECE for sure.
Lying Biotch is what she is. Well, we got her this time. The entire clip is out there and tells an entirely different story about how out of touch the government is with private industry.
Give it to the gov‘t and it’ll get skrewed up with multiple pages of nonsense, while with a sandwich machine and private capitalism you press this button, press that one an WALLA: a sandwich appears. No muss, no fuss, like you get when the government runs things.
Have you ever seen a government road crew? It takes one guy to lean on the handle of the shovel while the others work, then they take turns when the watcher gets tired of watching.
And for you Miz. Witch Mitchell, I have no idea what a WAWA is either. So go laugh your self crazy at that one. I try to stay in the South and West where people are mostly honest. Bet I know local icons you never heard about either. so ha ha to you horse faced liar.
Report Post »mayihelpyou
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:09pmAll 7 people who watch the scary lady Mitchell actually give a ****.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:09pmAndrea the face lifts aren’t cutting it,you look like Mr.Ed the talking horse.
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:12pmMr. Ed had better teeth.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:29amHow dare you insult Mr Ed – He was better looking and much smarter.
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:08pmAt least we know where ‘they are’ for when the day comes. The enemy of the USA is the MSM.
Report Post »ronin_6
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:04pmDisingenous and unprofessional. How do these people keep getting work?
Report Post »NotaLemming
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:00amThe question should be; How do they keep getting advertisers? Advertisers are Capitalist unless they are PSAs paid for by our tax dollars. So why do they patronize a media company that is inherently anti-capitalist via its obvious bias for a Marxist administration and Purely socialist views. Views that have an absolute directive. DESTROY CAPITALISM!
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:03pmIs this a surprise?
Obama is terrible, Romney is horrible, American citizens are screwed.
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:49pmMUTINY , All that hate is not good for anything. ESP. your well-being. God Bless!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:52pmAnd Mutiny always runs the Obama = Romney screed.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:56amMost of us were anything but excited about Romney becoming the candidate running against Obozocommie.
That being said, keep in mind….AT LEAST ROMNEY IS NOT A COMMUNIST.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:20amWe know Obama HATES America .. and Americans .. Romney given a chance could be a great President we don’t know yet … I FOR ONE AM MORE THAN WILLING TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:46amKapnkd: Bingo!
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:03pmhttp://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/06/18/how-wall-street-and-unions-are-ruining-politics
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:56pmSICK: know you have been sent to deliver your message : unions= Wall Street. Please tell your anti-capitalist handlers that we aren’t buying what they say are equal ! Wall Street helps to create jobs; public unions help to create tax payer debt. Bye. ( another Lefty attempt to slam Citizens United )
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 8:36pm@ Barber
Not so. Wall Street does not create jobs. Unless your a trader or runner, etc. How many of them?
Main Street creates jobs.
Wall Street pushes paper and makes money without making anything of intrinsic value. America has become a service country now. Munufacturing has been eroded to the point that it is being sent overseas because of un-needed regulations from the govt. Look at CA. Companies that can are moving out in droves. Saving 11% in taxes.
Wall Street is also the epitome of greed. It was Wall Street that said go forth and create sub-prime loans (remember them? They created this depression) and we can sell them. Those fat cat Wall Streeters got filthy rich, along with the foreign language speaking loan officers. And remember the vids of them laughing about how this will all collapse but they will have scored big?
Know history or repeat it.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »mgkizzia
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:52pmMicMac, it was Dodd, Frank and the Democrats in congress that started it all by forcing the banks to give mortgages to people they knew could not pay them back. The sub-primes were an attempt to spread the wealth (or in this case the damage). The banks may well suck for many reasons, but in this case please keep the finger pointed at the originators: generally the government and specifically the Democrats and their spineless Republican allies. As you said, get your history straight.
Report Post »Judeo_Christian
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:08amMicMac…you don’t understand capitalism. Wall Street DOES create jobs. For example, When Apple sells stock on the stock market, the investor’s money is made available to Apple to expand their company, to create new products, and YES create jobs. In return, Apple pays dividends and a high return on the investors investment. The investor can then use this money going to shows, buy food, getting their lawn mowed, using it for their own company(ies) to expand. All these vendors need people to help provide these services….Jobs!
Wall Street is the single largest means for providing capital to business the world has ever known. It has provided the worlds economy more job opportunity than any other organization in the history of the world. Are there and has their been evil people who work in the Stock Exchange….You bet! However, you have the same percentage of bad apples in every walk of life.
You need to educate yourself before spouting off these non-sense talking points the Leftist media’s has drilled into your brain.
Report Post »rosegrower
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:02pm@MICMAC
Report Post »You state that one should “know history” – well obviously, you don’t. Wall Street does create jobs in that it encourages risk-takers to invest dollars into companies in order to get some returns. What those companies do with the dollars is to: create new products, employ more people, buy or build more outlets and thus create jobs. Your explanation of Wall Street is highly simplistic and very blue-collar in its concept. As to the export of jobs and the destruction of the US manufacturing sector, thank labor unions and Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state for that. Prior to 1969, manufacturers could count on a surplus of unskilled or semiskilled labor to keep costs down even in unionized plants. After the Great Society programs began paying the unskilled to stay out of the labor force, the semiskilled leftovers started demanding confiscatory wages because their taxes went up to subsidize the unskilled layabouts. By the time George Meany took over the AFL-CIO, labor unions had become bloodsucking leeches, driving manufacturers out of the country to find unskilled and semiskilled labor to fill jobs that weren’t worth the prices unions were asking. In 1977, it was common for a union factory worker with a 6th grade education to earn more than a person with a masters’ degree for the task of putting four nuts on four bolts a few hundred times a day.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:02pmIts not that they are ‘out of touch’ its that they have become either that desperate or that uncaring.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:50amJust working once again for the Obama campaign .. still not willing to vet him .. but will lie cheat and steal to get him (re) elected.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:00pmYour President at his best…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AAMa_X2dM&feature=related
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:20pmnice!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:28pmThe babbling bisexual bastard is the smartest man in the …………………um no no he isn‘t that’s just the affirmative action shining brightly in that clip.
Report Post »Rick on the Beach
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:00pmI’m sitting here with my mouth wide open! I can‘t believe they’ve (NBC) done it again.. What the hell is wrong with those people? I really hope this story spreads. Americans need to know what is going on over in NBC.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:53pm@Rick on the Beach—–This is who they are. They are who they say they are.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:00pmThis may be a dumb question.
so whats new?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:59pmmsnbc’s viewer will be inconsolable because of this.
Report Post »mils
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:03pmandrea should be singled out and held up as example of who not to be…hey, ridicule of her work is a blow..if done and done loudly, and often
Report Post »BelindaB
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:31pmThere will BE NO VIEWERS…….They have absolutely NO CREDIBILITY…screw em.
Report Post »Orpheus75
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:57pmdisgusting!!! They never learn! But typical of the Left. Lying jackals.
Report Post »SnowballDidIt
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:57pmAndrea Mitchell should be ashamed of herself not just for being dishonest, but for thinking that she could get away with it.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:14amAndrea just reads ‘words’ written for her…..she would not know how to ‘edit’ a tape….all the msnbc talking heads just read from a script….and some like Rev Al have a hard time reading !
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:54pmBut Obama, who studied the Koran in Indonesia , went to Harvard, told publishers he was born in Kenya, ……..he’s a true red blooded American…..thank God for the new media, US !!!!! The truth is, that the leftist media cabal has been doing this since Cronkite and beyond, they just don’t get away with it anymore……….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:02pmThe internet is a great invention and lard ass Al Gore had nothing to do with it. Everybody‘s wired now and they can’t get away with their yellow journalism anymore.
Report Post »retiredguy1952
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:28pmBad news: they just MIGHT get away with it as long as the media is in Obama’s pocket. Unless enough Americans start seeing and admitting TO THEMSELVES what is happening, we are finished.
Report Post »ReaganBaby
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:52pmmore people will view the clip here in this article than all the viewers MSNBC receives monthly
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:52pmAh and this was the dear wife of our former Treasury Secretary. I’m sure Greenspan never listened to a word this woman said.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:50pmAre they still wondering why their viewership is plummeting? If not so, they’re as clueless as their beloved leader!
Report Post »ConstitunalAmerican
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:43pmFor years I watched mainstream media, just to get a quick update on the major news headlines, but with all their bias, lying, distorting of facts and Once upon a time story tales, I no longer could stand watching them even with the sound off. Their despicable distortions of news and events gave me the hives. End result, I classed them as Looney Tunes and wiped them off my remote!
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:49pmTypical leftwing hacks/soon to be out of work lowlifes
Report Post »lugger2010
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:48pmBREAKING NEWS……..This just in…MSNBC are the official “We love Obama, and you’d better love him too, or we’ll attack YOU as well” channel. Ya Think?!!!!!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:47pmMiniscule
Report Post »Socialist
Nutjob
Blind
Crackpots…
SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:46pmVery little is trustworthy in the public domain and many have been neutered of the ability to critically think and evaluate by the public school system and higher institutions.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:57pmWhat ever happened to sleazyhippo? What ever happened to Dangling Bags? I miss the good old days.
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:08pm@scuba13 Their parents either kicked them out OR they’re in jail.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:44pmIt is common practice among the MsM,no real supprise here….
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:44pmAnother nail in the progressive media’s coffin.
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