{"id":9476,"date":"2012-08-14T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2012-08-14T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:08:00","slug":"cnns-soledad-obrien-goes-all-newsroom-on-romney-surrogate-john-sununu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Soledad O&#8217;Brien Goes All &#8216;Newsroom&#8217; on Romney Surrogate John Sununu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<i>I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I&#8217;ve heard it repeated over and over again &#8230; These numbers have been debunked, as you know&#8230; You can&#8217;t just repeat it and make it true, sir.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s gotten into CNN&#8217;s Soledad O&#8217;Brien lately, but, to bastardize apocryphal Lincoln, can we send a whole case of it to the rest of the Beltway Press Corps?<\/p>\n<p>We highlighted a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9377\">similar moment from O&#8217;Brien in June<\/a>, when she doggedly attempted to get an actual answer from a Senior Romney Adviser on whether the presumptive GOP nominee still supports Arizona&#8217;s controversial &#8220;Papers Please&#8221; law. She refused to let it go &#8212; like a real journalist or something.<\/p>\n<p>Again today she went full <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9403\">&#8220;<i>Newsroom<\/i>&#8220;<\/a> on Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu, the Chair of his National Steering Committing, especially on his <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/cnns-obrien-corrects-right-wing-media-medicare\/189336\">attempt to lie about Obama having &#8220;gutted Medicare&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe class=\"video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/static\/clips\/2012\/08\/14\/25948\/cnn-startingpoint-20120814-soledadsununu\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I&#8217;ve heard it repeated over and over again &#8230; These numbers have been debunked, as you know&#8230; You can&#8217;t just repeat it and make it true, sir.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s gotten into CNN&#8217;s Soledad O&#8217;Brien lately, but, to bastardize apocryphal Lincoln, can we send [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,400,288,281,559],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn","category-election-2012","category-health-care","category-mitt-romney","category-soledad-obrien","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}