Between Wednesday's Nightly News and Thursday's Today,
NBC displayed an obsession with the liberal meme of attacking Mitt
Romney's "binders full of women" remark during Tuesday's presidential
debate. The network's delusional hyping of the manufactured controversy
reached a crescendo when Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski appeared on Today to proclaim: "Romney just completely doesn't have any leg to stand on when it comes to women and the economy." [Listen to the audio [1]]
Today co-host Savannah Guthrie teed up Brzezinski to slam
Romney: "...it has taken on a life of its own. The Democrats love it.
They think it really shows Mitt Romney at his most awkward. But if the
fight is for independent, undecided women voters, do you think this is
an issue that's weighty enough to resonate?"
Acting as an Obama shill, Brzezinski used the discussion to sing the President's praises:
The bigger picture is, [Romney] wouldn't have supported the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which is the first act, first piece of legislation the President signed when in office. The President set up the White House Council on Women and Girls, he's been working to get women equal pay every step of the way down the road here in this administration.
Brzezinski should know the Council on Women and Girls quite well, back in April, she moderated a forum [2] with Obama in the White House to promote the organization.
In a report prior to the discussion with Brzezinski and fellow co-host
Joe Scarborough, correspondent Peter Alexander referred to the "binders"
comment as "one of the townhall's most enduring lines" that the Obama
campaign was trying to "capitalize" on.
Alexander
then helped promote the left's attempt elevate the remark: "Mr.
Romney's binders comment was quickly mocked across the internet, and
even drove a Democratic group to buy the website
bindersfullofwomen.com."
Opening Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams
used similar language to tout the comment: "...there were some enduring
images and enduring lines, like the Mitt Romney quote about 'binders
full of women,' which took on a life of its own today."
Political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd soon
followed: "Mr. Romney's response to the issue of equal pay for women
became a target today....the words he chose quickly lit up social
media." As Todd spoke a series of left-wing tweets mocking Romney
appeared on screen.
Still not done with the petty assault on Romney, in a report following
Todd, correspondent Andrea Mitchell declared: "...that comment about
binders that went viral." An image appeared on screen of the same
Democratic website Alexander later touted on Today.
Here is a transcript of Brzezinski on the October 18 Today:
7:12AM ET
(...)
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Mika, I want to bring you in on this. The term,
"binders full of women," it has taken on a life of its own. The
Democrats love it. They think it really shows Mitt Romney at his most
awkward. But if the fight is for independent, undecided women voters, do
you think this is an issue that's weighty enough to resonate?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, because I think women care about the economy,
they want jobs, and they, by the way, want to be paid the same as their
male counterparts. And that comment the other night made by Mitt Romney
at the debate showed, first of all, that he was, at the very least,
misleading about exactly what he did with those binders. He says he
sought them out and asked for lists of women to hire. The truth,
apparently is, that both candidates running for governor were given
binders with names of women in them. So he changed that story around to
fit the narrative of the night.
The bigger picture is, he wouldn't have supported the Lilly Ledbetter
Act, which is the first act, first piece of legislation the President
signed when in office. The President set up the White House Council on
Women and Girls, he's been working to get women equal pay every step of
the way down the road here in this administration. And Mitt Romney just
completely doesn't have any leg to stand on when it comes to women and
the economy.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, let me just-
BRZEZINSKI: He claims to. He does not.
SCARBOROUGH: Let me just say, I mean, Willie Geist and I find this
highly offensive. We used to have binders filled with women, as well. I
don't understand.
BRZEZINSKI: I don't want to hear about your college days.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: Ridiculous.
GUTHRIE: Well, Joe, I know you do take a different view on the binders
full of women, maybe now we know why, given your past history with
binders.
SCARBOROUGH: It was Willie more than me, but yeah.
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