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

[Playinghardball]

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.”

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1qinf)

[livetohike]

1. Giuliani and Sununu need another hobby

and CNN and others should be ashamed of themselves for giving these shills a platform from which to shriek their garbage.

[JHB]

16. No, but whoever books them on CNN does...

...or else stop indulging his hobby on the job.

[TwilightGardener]

2. It's hard to deal with people who walk right up to facts

and deny them. Impossible, even.

[dorkulon]

3. Sununu is such an objectionable tool.

Hate that MFer.

[FirstLight]

4. I dig her...

and I can't imagine interviewing that POS or any other Rabid Rethuglicans for that matter...she's a brave woman!

[speedoo]

13. Yes, Soledad has come a long way.

She is gaining stature every day.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Sununu is somebody that needs a nice punch in the face. n/t

[JHB]

17. He needs some of his old headlines to be reprinted, like so:

SUNUNU RESIGNS UNDER FIRE AS CHIEF AIDE TO PRESIDENT; CITES FEAR OF HURTING BUSH

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL
Published: December 04, 1991


***
Mr. Sununu's political problems began shortly after he arrived in Washington. By the time he resigned, stories were rife about the fear with which he was treated by subordinates, who often accused him in private of meeting their suggestions with scorn.

The uproar over the 1990 budget deal, in which Mr. Sununu was seen by many Republican lawmakers as a malevolent influence, exacerbated Mr. Sununu's troubles. In the same fashion, he was badly wounded by disclosures of his extensive use of military aircraft for personal and political trips.

More recently, Mr. Sununu was blamed for the lack of direction in Mr. Bush's domestic policy staff, which was unable for months to present the President with a consensus about what he should do to spur the economy.

Then Mr. Sununu committed what many in Washington considered the unpardonable sin: he made his boss look foolish by saying that Mr. Bush had "ad-libbed" a remark about lowering credit card interest rates, when in fact the comments had been written into the President's speech.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/04/us/sununu-resigns-under-fire-as-chief-aide-to-president-cites-fear-of-hurting-bush.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Anyone else getting tired of the whining from the over-privileged old guard leaders?

[nichomachus]

7. Instead if a vodka and tonic

She should have just asked Sununu when he intended to pay back the $800,000 he stole from the government.

[quinnox]

8. Sununu seems to have decided to go nutso and raving as a good tactic to get more face time on tv

[Blue Owl]

9. Make it a double

n/t

[barbtries]

10. sununu is a disrespectful boor

who deserves as much respect, or less, as he accords others. yuck.

[global1]

11. He Is Always Confrontational With Her ......

I don't understand why they keep booking him to appear with her.

[blue_heron]

23. raving maniac

What I don't get is why Romney employs him as an advisor!

[ladjf]

12. Sununu is losing it. nt

[porphyrian]

14. I hear that, due to a failed surgery, Sununu actually speaks through his rectum. n/t

[yellowcanine]

15. “Obviously, he’s hitting on me.” Could not blame him too much for that.

Though it is a bit of a gross out.

[Terra Alta]

18. I've always liked Soledad

I've been following her ever since she was on the show "The Site" on MSNBC in the late 90s. She is very intelligent, and classy too. Sununu as an ass.

[David Zephyr]

19. "groupie" "slut" "feminazi" "forced rape" "legitimate rape"...

Wow! Republican men really have a way with words when they speak about women.

They make me sick.

[yellowcanine]

20. Sununu is just pissed he can't deliver NH for Romney.

NH is turning into a blue state and it really chafes his butt.

[lpbk2713]

21. "I know what you are but what am I?"

Seriously, is that the best he can come up with?
His brain is still stuck in seventh grade.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. If I owned my own channel, I would run videos of mating pigs while Sununu spouts off in the

background.

[HopeHoops]

24. I had the unfortunate honor of having Sununu as my NH senator. He's an even bigger dickweed now.