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Obama Adviser Uses White House Construction As Proof That We’re ‘Just Creating Jobs Everywhere!’

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Welcome to the latest edition of “Someone Says Something Vaguely Insensitive While On Andrea Mitchell Reports!” Following up such wonderful guests as Foster Friess and Alice Stewart, comes Gene Sperling, the White House’s Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. On the show today, Sperling joked that the administration was making jobs everywhere! His proof? There was a bunch of construction going on behind him…on a house…that’s the White House.

The comment came during a conversation of the just proposed corporate tax cut. He was speaking to Andrea Mitchell via satellite from the lawn of the White House and, throughout the segment, there was a ton of construction going on in the background (looks like Joe Biden finally got that game room he asked for!). At the end of the discussion, Mitchell remarked on the noise and Sperling joked that they were “just creating jobs everywhere!” The MSNBC host, who’s getting a lot of practice on her reactions, dryly responded, “At least there.”

Look, Sperling just made a little joke. It’s not the end of the world. Good for him for not being another humorless political guest. Still, just like you shouldn’t do a segment on job loss from a fancy resort, you also shouldn’t joke about how many jobs there are…at the White House. It just looks tacky.

All I’m saying is, if the biggest problem in the nation was food shortages, I wouldn’t want to hear any politicians bragging about the White House’s sweet fridge.

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  • AMP2020

    Who gets the first snark comment?!!

    Look below to find out!

  • Anonymous

     Dont you think they deserve some rewards for all the good they have done this country. I mean they inherited so much chaos from the 8years of bush. Im glad they are doing something for themselves after they saved this country from the collapse of the republicans and bust childish/moronic policies….good for them

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A74EJCCN62MXTMGTRP6KE4RCWM plls

    Mitt Romney has filed an application with the San Diego government to bulldoze the 3,009-square-foot beachfront house in La Jolla and replace it with a 11,062-square-foot property.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t they let Liberals swim in the ocean?
    Because they can’t get the smell out of the tuna. he he he he

    Just make sure you Democrats get that remodeling done before we move back in, come next November.  STOP THE DEMOCRATS WAR GAS.

  • Anonymous

    Screen shot so I can laugh at your expense in November.

  • Anonymous

    Sperling’s not too bright to make any kind of joke (small or not) about jobs- especially not when the recent job loss numbers have gone up and gas prices are moving towards FIVE or SIX dollars a gallon (which will inhibit job growth even more). Jokes only work when someone will laugh.

  • Rapmaster G-Doggg

    ” Things are great here, Andrea !  Parties, B.B.King, basketball, golf, marshmallow gun fights, bobbing for french fries,etc. 
       Would Mrs.O., elected by nobody, be spending millions on herself with 16 vacations in 2 1/2 years if things were bad?”

    By the way, the construction is the new Salahi Room, where hor’s d’ ouevres will be created and assembled and by our new chef, Kobiyashi, of Coney Island hot dog eating fame.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/02/michelles-ski-trip-marks-16-obama-vacations/294051

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    STOP THE DEMOCRATS WAR GAS?

  • http://twitter.com/mattparkerfl Matt Parker

    Seriously, no ordinary American is going to care about some media elites and conservative critics trying to drum up fabrications concerning Obama’s “missteps.” Voters are too busy watching a brutal Republican primary race where the two candidates are lurching into the abyss of right-wing mania. And they are tuning in to see the improving economic numbers that are a stark contrast to gloom and doom Republican attacks that have no basis in reality.   http://www.sunstateactivist.org

  • Anonymous

    With taxpayer money? 

  • Anonymous

     I think you meant to write. STOP THE DEMOCRATS WAR ON GAS.

  • Anonymous

    In truth, after Bush they tried everything they could to get the smell of pork rinds and Fun-Yum’s out of the White House but finally had to start over with new construction.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Your edit added no more insight.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “Construction employment increased by 21 thousand jobs in January, after increasing by 74 thousand jobs in all of 2011. Last year was the first year with an increase in construction employment since 2006, and the first with an increase in residential construction employment since 2005.”
    http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/02/construction-employment-duration-of.html

  • Anonymous

    Sensitivity to the millions of unemployed – a hallmark of this administration – Not!
    Meanwhile, unreported by Mediaite:  
      Gas has already hit $6 per gallon in some parts of the country.
      25yrs ago 85% of Americans paid federal taxes, today about 50% pay taxes
      Liberal darling Cindy Sheehan chooses not to pay taxes, just like many celebrities
      DNC former chair is buying major newspapers in swing states in advance of elections
      MSNBC Ed Schulz program compares GOP to Nazi death camp doctors
      

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Where has gas reached $6 per gallon in the country??

  • Anonymous

    When the ignorant in our society voted for an incompetent, feckless, America-hating clown for president, they doomed the country to four years of recession……givven the stupidity of the American electorate, I suggest everyone prepare for four more.

  • Anonymous

    Florida – I didn’t check the map but I’d assume its next to an airport or Disneyworld or some other gas-trap.  Where I live its still about $4.40 (diesel), which means I can either have a sandwich for lunch or drive one way to work, but not both and certainly not drive home.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Amato/692316541 Mike Amato

    Oh PUH-LEEEEZ…

    Look, y’all have done a great job taking down Politifact. Don’t be like them.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Bummer!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Bummer!!

  • Anonymous

    The two dollar  gallon surcharge has always been a point of contention at the Orlando airport and near Disney World.  The whole town is a tourist trap but here in the rest of Florida the Price averages $3.67 per gallon.  It’s still $3.58 at the station closest to my home.

  • Anonymous

     And the community organizer voted for EVERY spending program the Democratic controlled congress put forward during the Bush years!! Yet the ignorant left acts like he had nothing to do with it!!
    btw, the housing fiasco was caused by the Democrats but I know facts elude liberals!!
    blame Bush blame Bush blame Bush…is emblazoned into shallow minds!!

  • Anonymous

    Thx, that sounds familiar about DFW too though I may be thinking of another airport, where the gas station(s) on airport property include a per gallon surcharge in addition to the high taxes.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     When the ignorant in our society voted for an incompetent, feckless,
    America-hating clown for president, they doomed the country to four
    years of recession.

    Thank God Bush had to go due to term limits.

  • Anonymous

    What is interesting is that of those 50% not paying taxes the president has used payroll taxes to reduce the funding of what most would still consider a retirement fund…  Now he is suggesting a further reduction in payroll taxes to offset the spike in gas prices.. He further bankrupts an already bankrupt entitlement. 

    The president’s new tax plan specifically cuts out the so called subsidies paid to oil companies including the cost of drilling which for all other manufactures would be considered depreciation or operating expenses…  not that it really matters much.  I would ask our democratic friends here if they think that the oil companies will not simply raise prices to recoup those increases in costs?  So just who is the president taxing in the end?  The most outrageous thing about the president’s war on big oil is that the Federal Government makes more on a gallon of gas than the oil companies do with out carrying any of the investment or risks associated with the production of gas…

  • Anonymous

    Downrange consequences don’t seem to be a strongpoint for most liberals (many conservatives too).  I think instead of studying that in school they were taking an arts class…

  • Anonymous

    Imagine the money the federal government could rake in on oil royalties and taxes, if Obama would get off his ass and approve permits- there seems to be the potential for a big new find, off of Louisiana in shallow water, by MacMoRan (didn’t it used to be Freeport MacMoRan?).

  • Anonymous

    Eh, you’re just deflecting.  I’m a liberal, but I’m also honest and this really was a completely stupid thing to say.  Especially now during the campaign season.  I hope the higher ups in the White House give this guy a much deserved @ss reaming over this.

  • Anonymous

     Hey idiot boy, do you ever read the entire story you create links for. If you did, you totally missed this; “According to presidential watcher Mark Knoller of CBS,
    George W. Bush, at this time of his presidency, had made 30 visits to
    his Texas ranch spanning all or part of 220 days. The Obama’s vacation
    day count is less than half of that.” What is wrong with morons like yourself. You chide this woman for taking a vacation yet your guy took double the amount of time in the same span of time. Just goes to show you my screen name is apt.

  • Anonymous

    Do you people get up and take “stupid pills” in the morning before you sit down to your computer?
    THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JANUARY 2012

    Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the
    unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
    Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private
    sector, with large employment gains in professional and business
    services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing. Government
    employment changed little over the month.http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

  • Anonymous

     I guess this needs repeating here for you Chuck?…

    Do you people get up and take “stupid pills” in the morning before you sit down to your computer?

    THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JANUARY 2012

    Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the
    unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
    Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private
    sector, with large employment gains in professional and business
    services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing. Government
    employment changed little over the month.http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsi...

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DZP2ZQSOEQ5LWQHJ2Y65JN3RLE Holly

    According to the Daily Rash, Obama’s 2012 campaign, “Hope and Change – For Real This Time!” is gearing up to wake up dosing supporters.  http://www.thedailyrash.com/hope-and-change-for-real-this-time

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    Must be a slow news day until after the debates.. this is a non story.. I saw the segment and he was ending the segment with a joke because it was hard for them to talk over the noise…

  • Clovis4

    Sarah Palin compared the GOP to Stalin, so they are both idiots.

  • Clovis4

    Just cost me $73.00 to fill my tank.  No good.

  • Anonymous

    The haughty, always-angry Andrea knows what we all do: This election won’t be about ‘birth control,’ as much as she and her fellow Leftist Media Hacks might want it to be. It will be about the lack of a real recovery and unemployment that is still over 15% in legitimate terms. No amount of Leftist Media Manipulation will mask those truths.

    And THAT is why Andrea and all the other Leftist Media Hacks look so sullen, so depressed.

  • Clovis4

    Short term fixes, the payroll tax or the Bush tax cut, are useless. The whole tax code needs to be overhauled but as usual the folks in charge have the balls of the average field mouse so I’m not looking for a fix any time soon. No matter who wins the WH, I don’t see that problem being tackled.

  • Centrist79

    Well even if the economy is improving, this was a dumb remark.

  • Anonymous

    It appears to me the majority of stupid electorate reside squarely in the Republican party.

  • Anonymous

    War on gas? What gas have you been inhaling?  You make no sense at all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    not as dumb as the other white house spox yesterday “unemployment stimulates US economy”. You cant make this stuff up…

    Romney/west

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    And they could sell that with a straight face.

    Romney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    As reported by the TV stations already owned by the left..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    juan wiki “S A U L  A L I N S K I” and check out “Red army behind OWS” in stores now, preview on fox.  com somewhere if you are an honest liberal and dont hate america.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    hopefully they/ we can all learn how to eat condoms.

  • Clovis4

    You just jumped the shark.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Totally disgusting how spewing racial hate and religious hate is more politically correct than disagreeing with barack obama.

    sold out all of america to the devil for 40$/wk and free condoms.

    but the war on obesity will be a huge success as we all get skinnier

  • Anonymous

    You Win !!

  • Anonymous

    Bush’s Fault !!
    No, it’s Reagan’s Fault !!
    No, it’s Truman’s Fault !!
    No, it’s Lincoln’s Fault !!
    No, it’s G. Washington’s Fault !!

  • Anonymous

    If I were unemployed, and saw this idiot make this “little joke”, I woulda’ busted a cap in my TV.  But I don’t have cable, much less watch BSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t you post that in 1996?

  • Anonymous

    About 3/gallon here in Denver area.

  • Anonymous

    Remember BP.

  • Anonymous

    lets stop beating around the bush…

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    OK.  I’ll totally seek out your conspiracy theorist propaganda to prove I don’t hate America.  Because we all know gullibility is the true test of one’s love for one’s country.

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  • 12voltman1

    Mediaite
    sometimes does not forward messages post all the time. I have notice this more
    than once. Anyways you wrote this to me 2 months ago and I never received the
    message. Today is the first time I read It. honestly. Someone else replied to
    this thread and it was then until I saw your reply to
    me…………………………………………………………………………………………….”I
    gotta’ tell ya’ 12Volt, although I disagree with 99% of your comments, as you
    probably do mine, I think we would be friends if we were neighbors. I wouldn’t
    hesitate to invite you and Mrs. 12Volt over for a cookout, cards, etc…we just
    wouldn’t talk politics !!

    With
    that said…let’s get back to insulting each other !!”

    Thanks.
    It was a nice thought .Maybe someday ?

    I’m only
    joking when I taunt you.

  • 12voltman1

    But if they were never any term limits, Bill Clinton would still be president today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    yesterday Jarret said unemplyment stimulates they economy, who writes this?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Cmon obama cant you just make it free?

  • Anonymous

    What a totally dishonest thing to say.  Look at the rolls of the liberal left. Most haven’t gotten past 8th grade and can’t read.

  • Anonymous

    But it’s not Karl Marx’s fault.  

    YET

  • Anonymous

    Yep for the Liberal Left’s new slogan.

    Use Grass not Gas.

  • Anonymous

    No you’re supposed to fill them with helium to make yourself a personal hot air balloon to get around.

  • Anonymous

    L. Ron is right.  Me (first)  Shell is an elitist living the good life while Americans suffer.  What great role models these two make.

    Mr and Mrs. First American Affirmative Action Family.

    How’s that diversity working for ya???   

  • Anonymous

    You must be kidding.  Americans are watching Idol and the Voice.  Only conservatives are watching the debates and the GOP race. 

  • Anonymous

    Yep, building more HUD housing to steal more tax cash from those of us who work.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    My state (Illinois) has money “stolen” by state’s like Rand Paul’s Kentucky (Red State) and DeMint’s South Carolina (Red State). The federal system of transfer payments benefits those who hate it most.

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/the-map-that-proves-red-staters-use-the-safety-net-too.php

    You can suckle but please don’t bite.

  • Anonymous

    your fool mouth first. a fool and his president.

  • Anonymous

    Same here, only joking. I come here to have fun, not to debate or change anyone’s mind. I found the best thing to do when people are on complete opposites in politics is to avoid serious debate and just poke each other in they eye in a good-natured non-hateful way. I hate the fact that you cancel out my vote (there I go again) but that won’t stop us from enjoying a campfire, Blueberry Moonshine and an acoustic guitar.

  • http://twitter.com/becnbs bec small

    Why aren’t the MSM discussing the elephant in the room? Sheriff Joe has probable cause that this potus is a fraud.  It the biggest story of this century making Watergate pale in comparison.  Instead of the Pulitzer Prize, they get the Booby prize!

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