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rainlillie

(1,095 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:12 AM Oct 2012

What's up, with the male Romney surrogates being disrespectful to Soledad O’Brien?

Today Sununu called her an" Obama ‘groupie." A few months back Sununu told her "to put an Obama bumper- sticker on her forehead.

Tim Pawlenty asked "if she understands English"


Most of the interviews she has conducted with Romney's surrogates have been very contentious. Can you imagine if one of the men on MSNBC behaved that way with a Romney female surrogate?

I'm not surprised they don't have respect for women or the truth. Still, CNN needs to put their foot down and demand that all of their employees on and off air be treated with respect. BTW, IMO the word "groupie", is one step away from calling her a whore. He could have said fan or whatever, but he had to pick the most demeaning term you can call a woman without being bleeped.

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What's up, with the male Romney surrogates being disrespectful to Soledad O’Brien? (Original Post) rainlillie Oct 2012 OP
Suuunuunuuu is an idiot. Chipper Chat Oct 2012 #1
Did she cut their mike? HipChick Oct 2012 #2
I read the story and watched the clip on Raw story.. rainlillie Oct 2012 #4
Misogyny is a core Republican Family Value Berlum Oct 2012 #3
Silly woman! dawg Oct 2012 #9
Sununu is a racist scumbag who would wear a grand dragon uniform Care Acutely Oct 2012 #5
Sununu was a total asswipe and I would bet he alienated a lot of viewers Cass Oct 2012 #6
Soledad is a woman of color. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #7
Sununu is an oozing pusbag. A-Schwarzenegger Oct 2012 #8
LOL! Catherine Vincent Oct 2012 #16
Yep. Sununu is making the rounds, lying his teeth off. Baitball Blogger Oct 2012 #10
Women need to cut them off at the knees. It's hard and unrewarding but needs to happen. nolabear Oct 2012 #11
Because in their interviews with her, she has kicked their asses mmonk Oct 2012 #12
She's a woman and her name is María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien obamanut2012 Oct 2012 #13
Pubs are having a tantrum today leftynyc Oct 2012 #14
because when they have nothing... Javaman Oct 2012 #15
Soledad is an intelligent female who thinks for herself Terra Alta Oct 2012 #17

rainlillie

(1,095 posts)
4. I read the story and watched the clip on Raw story..
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:17 AM
Oct 2012

No she didn't cut his mic. As soon as he started a personal attack she should have kicked him off.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
3. Misogyny is a core Republican Family Value
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:15 AM
Oct 2012

Women in Binders is sick. But what the Repiggies really want is Women in Blinders.

dawg

(10,624 posts)
9. Silly woman!
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:28 AM
Oct 2012

I'll bet she would be really ashamed of her fear of "new" ideas if she could only see into the future and realize that now, in the year 2012, we *all* have gas refrigerators!

Care Acutely

(1,370 posts)
5. Sununu is a racist scumbag who would wear a grand dragon uniform
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:24 AM
Oct 2012

to interviews if he were honest. He called Obama "incompetent and lazy" - i.e., racist Reagan brownshirt speak for "shiftless good-for-nothing lazy N****r"

Cass

(2,600 posts)
6. Sununu was a total asswipe and I would bet he alienated a lot of viewers
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:25 AM
Oct 2012

with his belligerence and rudeness to O'Brien. He was shockingly rude and condescending to her.

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
11. Women need to cut them off at the knees. It's hard and unrewarding but needs to happen.
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:35 AM
Oct 2012

As always, women have to work twice as hard for half the respect.

mmonk

(52,589 posts)
12. Because in their interviews with her, she has kicked their asses
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 11:36 AM
Oct 2012

so many times they come out nasty towards her.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
17. Soledad is an intelligent female who thinks for herself
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 04:44 PM
Oct 2012

Repuke men are afraid of women like her, so they resort to insults, knowing she has too much class to stoop to their level. It's disgusting, really.

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