Andrea Mitchell: The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with edited Romney tape - we did. But we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth MSNBC or the United States of AmericaAndrea Mitchell airs full Romney remarks
On her show today, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell responded to criticism of the network's decision to run an edited tape of Mitt Romney's remarks about the Wawa convenience store chain, but the network has not clarified why it ran the edited version of the tape.
"We ran clips of Mitt Romney in Cornwall, Pa., talking about his trip to a Wawa," Mitchell said. "Well, the RNC and the campaign both reached out to us saying that Romney had more to say about that visit — about federal bureaucracy and innovation in the private sector. We didn't get a chance to play that, so here it is now."
Mitchell's response did not satisfy many critics, especially those on the right, who saw it as a non-apology.
Meanwhile, MSNBC did not respond to requests — before and after Mitchell's segment — for an explanation as to why the network aired the edited tape.
(Also on POLITICO: MSNBC mischaracterizes Romney remarks)
UPDATE: An MSNBC spokesperson emailed the following at 4:30 on Tuesday afternoon:
“MSNBC did not edit anything out of order or out of sequence and at no time did we intend to deceive our viewers.”
Just more dicks carrying water for Barry.
Just more dicks carrying water for Barry.
