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Soledad O’Brien Grills Recently-Dropped Mitt Romney Advisor Over Problematic Polls

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On Tuesday’s Starting Point, Soledad O’Brien confronted former Mitt Romney advisor Brett O’Donnell over his recent dismissal from the campaign, despite being credited for helping the former Massachusetts governor get his mojo back during debates. Politico’s Jonathan Martin had reported “internal tensions over staff receiving too much credit for the candidate’s comeback.”

“I’m not really going to talk about what happened either behind the scenes,” O’Donnell replied, “or what we do,” before explaining that while the candidate has a series of advisors, it’s ultimately the candidate himself who has to debate and make speeches. O’Donnell did, however, call Romney a “great candidate.”

“Hmm,” O’Brien responded. “I find it so interesting when people say, ‘I’m not really going to talk about that,’ but I guess people can read through the lines, into the lines, whatever they want.”

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She then presented O’Donnell with new polling that shows Mitt Romney facing an uphill battle against Rick Santorum nationally and in the state of Michigan, and asked what he would do to help his former advisee, who she said isn’t looking like the “great candidate” he said he was.

O’Donnell said that Romney is going to have to continue getting his message out to voters and, despite victories in Maine and at CPAC, was wary that, “in this race, almost nothing has carried over for very long.”

“That might be the understatement of this political season, that nothing has carried over. We could graph it out.” O’Brien said, drawing an invisible line across the screen with a series of peaks and valleys. “It’s been something like that!”

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  • Gloves Doc Donahue

    Media Matters material on parade. Grill away, Soley.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/NYZ6R7HTH7W43XKDEEYFPDNZLE Kim

    My friend just met a chocolate man on Blackwhitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
    It’s a nice place for black white sing’les, to interact with each other…no bounds or extremes in front of true love.

  • Ben

    I’m guessing it was that moment when O’Donnell said..

    “Mr.Romney I’m not sure it’s such a great idea to say you enjoy firing people”….

    “Oh yea?..You’re fired! How about that huh?..Hahaha…hahaha.. ..HAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    The Primary is too painful to watch on Romney’s behalf. It’s pathetic, he should just do what needs to be done and wrap it up already. It’s disheartening. 

  • Anonymous

    Soledad once grilled Obama by asking him “Do you know how attractive you are?’

  • Anonymous

     Been there, done that.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Sweet, my friend just met a peanut butter woman on PnutWhiteMeet.com   It’s a place where men can finally, without shame, meet and interact with peanut butter women. 

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    So, does the GOP have a nominee yet?

  • Anonymous

    He needs to get caught doing this: http://youtu.be/VQ6dvKCfDRo

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    This is discrimination. Why is no one reporting on the Mayo Man site?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You notice that since New Hampshire and everyone commenting on that peculiar looking man standing beyond Willard during his insignificant and dreary speech, that peculiar looking man has not  reappeared? Even though the peculiar looking man was Willard’s son? And this kampain advisor thinks the is going to be treated better than Willard’s own son?

  • Anonymous

    This is what you get when you let the extremes of the party decide who your nominee should be. People who could beat Obama don’t make it this far in the process and the best candidate remaining in terms of electability just isn’t good enough.

  • Anonymous

    None of it will help.President Obama will easily get four more years.

  • Anonymous

    Critical questions of the right = Media Matters

    Critical questions of the left = Fair and Balanced

  • Anonymous

    How long do you folks think you’ll be able to milk this nontroversy? Another day or two, maybe? Sorry to burst your right wing bubble, but outside of the Faux News Industrial Complex it’s already Dead on Arrival.

    Alas, this one is only still kicking in the hollow cranium of Steve Doocy.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Truth!!

  • Anonymous

    Let me get this straight: Mitt Romney gets credited for two very good debates in Florida after some poor performances earlier prior to a dismal result in South Carolina, where polls showed the Gingrich surge was in large part attributed to strong debates. So in response the Romney team fires the guy who probably helped them win in Florida. If this is the managerial style we’re supposed to expect from a president Romney then it’s no wonder he’s now losing to both Santorum and Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    So, Murdoch’s empire is slowly crumbling around him with extended and ongoing investigations and multiple arrests as recent as last week, all stemming from his unscrupulous and illegal methods of running his overseas media operations.   

    And then there’s Media Matters.  A site dedicated to dispelling the myths vomitted from Rupert Murdoch’s illegally ran media empire. 

    Something tells me that Conservatives will side with Murdoch’s unethical and illegal activities versus a site that tells the truth.

  • Anonymous

    Tomorrow, Soledad grills Harry Reid on never having submitted a budget.  Oh wait, that’ll never happen.

  • Anonymous

    The Bain Way Creative Destruction.

  • Anonymous

    Where can I sign up for this!?!?

  • Anonymous

    Ya think?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You have to remember Tina-in-Tampa is still whining about Journalist. You also have to remember that OSTL, a/k/a American Cowboy, a/k/a Texan, a/k/a Olby S*cks, a/k/a/ numerous other names, actually named Jeff Merrill is a professional milker of sorts. There is a level of experience and training there.

  • Hout Bosques

    We don’t get to see much of it here on Mediaite, but in the U.K., the Murdoch empire is hemorrhaging, with 38 NewsCorp (UK) employees & contractors & several police officers having been arrested so far, the Murdoch’s now agreeing to ‘help’ the investigating team out more compromised senior employees, the Murdoch flagship paper The Sun getting hit hard over the weekend, & daily revelations from the ongoing judicial investigation. It’s about the closest thing to the dynamic of the Watergate scandal that I can recall in 40 years.  

    Now, if the Watergate analogy holds, what’s going on at this point is equivalent to when Nixon started to throw his senior staff to the wolves – Dean, Haldeman, Erlichman, Mitchell – that level. The difficulty is that at least some at that level – think John Dean, who’s actively writing & speaking on Current TV about these parallels – are going to turn against the Murdochs. I think that’s probably already happened to some extent (As I understand the English system, the public doesn’t get to see the transcripts of the police interviews of those arrested until after the charges start to get heard in court, at the earliest; right now those arrested aren’t due in court for the initial appearances & to be read any charges until May.), but we may not get to see the full extent of that until the fall of this year at the earliest. 

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

    Hmmm.  Which son are you referring to?

    In this video is it the son with the toothy grin standing behind Willard and at his mother’s side (off her right shoulder)?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVxsHJwfcg

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