Soledad O’Brien asks for ‘vodka tonic’ after Sununu calls her an Obama ‘groupie’

[octoberlib]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/17/soledad-obrien-asks-for-vodka-tonic-after-sununu-call-her-an-obama-groupie/ .......SNIP...........


CNN host Soledad O’Brien found herself needing a drink on Wednesday after former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told her that she worked for the Obama “groupie channel” because she refused to back down on CNN’s fact check of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the prior night’s debate.

Sununu, who had previously called for O’Brien to “put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead,” blasted the CNN host again on Wednesday, calling her “out of your mind” because she refused to accept the Romney campaign’s false assertion that President Barack Obama had not initially referred to the recent attacks in Libya as “acts of terror.”

“I always need a cocktail after I speak to him,” the CNN host sighed. “I really need a vodka and tonic after I talk to him. He takes such exception when you read quotes and comments. And we sort of had a similar issue, I thought with Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani when you try to get to, let’s look at specifically what was said… and you get attacked for it.”...........SNIP............


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[JustAnotherGen]

1. She needs

To stop interviewing him. If her producers force it on her - then spend five minutes asking him questions about nothing -

Coupons - do you clip them?
Ben Gay or Aspercream?
Alleve or Tylenol?
Fage or Chobani?
What do you think of the color yellow?
What was the name of my first pet?
Did you know I once slept with gum in my mouth and my mother had to cut it out of my hair?

When I couldn't 'shake' a jerk when I was single and out and about I'd usually resort to those tactics.

He's a man. He's a jerk. That approach should work.

[FSogol]

4. Ask him if he paid back the govt funds he misappropriated? Ask him

how it felt to resign in disgrace?

[dmr]

17. Or CNN should forbid him any more airtime. It's one thing if he offered

an honest assessment of her as a journalist, but his intent was clear, and that was to break her - for her to give up the 'fight', so he could from this day forward say whatever lie suits his fancy.

This clearly is a verbal abuse trick, and intended to break her resolve for facts, mock her credibility and humiliate her before the CNN viewers and her colleagues. For, that, he should be banned.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. Soledad O'Brien: She talks to John Sununu so you don't have tonunu (nt)

[reflection]

8. Love it. n/t

[WI_DEM]

3. Sununu thinks he's more important than he is. He's a has-been whose become a joke

[BlueStreak]

5. Why re they making this ridiculous argument in the first place?

What difference does it make?

There was confusion immediately after the attack. Romney was most certainly confused -- and Romney also linked the protests with the embassy attack.

So what if there was some ambiguity between the two causes for a week or two as facts were coming together?

Is this really what the Romney campaign has come down to? Is this really their strongest argument against another 4 years for Obama?

[TroyD]

6. Sununu has been having meltdowns for months now

The previous examples have been posted here in the past.

This is just another one to add to the list.

Hopefully this will be the last campaign we have to see this hateful old bugger.

[tanyev]

7. Why do they keep talking to him like he's a credible person?

That ship sailed a long time ago.

[abumbyanyothername]

9. The fact that a criminal like Sununu

even gets a voice on a network like CNN speaks poorly of the US political system.

[Cosmocat]

12. T H I S

[MissMarple]

13. Speaks directly to the quality of the Romney campaign. He is a co- chairman.

He is a Romney SURROGATE!

One could almost feel sorry for these guys. Almost, maybe for just a second.

[TroyD]

10. What makes me most FURIOUS

Is that the Bush Administration is responsible for the deaths of SEVERAL THOUSAND people on 9/11 because they ignored warnings about it, so why the hell is there all this focus on the deaths of FOUR PEOPLE overseas?

[abumbyanyothername]

14. They are fixated on 1980

And this embassy was in Iran. Almost.

[Liberalynn]

11. Repukes and the Truth not so much

My sympathies Soledad!

[Cha]

15. Idea! Don't interview him. Find someone else

who doesn't try to insult you like a big stupid bully on the playground.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. I know this is childish but...

Sununu looks like a T-Rex minus the teeth but with glasses: