Dem strategist Rosen: Ann Romney ‘never actually worked a day in her life’ [VIDEO]

[SamH]

She did NOT last night, and she HAS NOT today.

Obviously, I **should accept your analysis of what was “meant” **and the context of the discussion, rather than the interview itself, and the resulting defense by Rosen today.

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Sounds like all the talking heads after Obama press conference. Never mind what he actually said - this is what he meant. The Harvard educated lawyer can’t articulate.

Here we are to believe the partner in the political communications firm can’t speak for herself…

 

[qui_est_ce]

This has to be one of the lowest blows I’ve seen in a while. I don’t know anything about Ann Romney except that she’s Mitt’s wife. I do know that staying home and raising 5 sons had to be HARD, no matter the circumstances. Her detractor finds fault in the fact she has never been a wage slave.

Instead of the manufactured “war on women” concocted by Democratic party operatives, let’s talk about the real war on women that has been going on for decades.

Let’s talk about the war on virginity and fertility (THE precious gifts of womanhood)waged by the purveyors of contraception.

Let’s talk about feminism, the initial reaction to the introduction of the pill, and how the feminists have embraced their oppressors and become active proponents of the pill. Early feminists rightly saw the immense benefit of the pill to their men. The pill leaves women barren, exploited, and polluted, and ultimately, unattached to any meaningful family life.

Let’s talk about how feminism has captured the workplace, which has allowed employers to drive down wages and end any possibility of paying a family wage.

These things make it easy to turn women into sexually robotic wage slaves. The fact that Ann Romney is fortunate enough to have escaped that fate is what people like Hillary Rosen seem to resent most.

I don’t often agree with you, but that is an awesome post.

 

[Jerry_Miah]

The statement might be questionable but more so is the dishonesty of the “Daily Caller”, a rag website offshoot from FOX TV. What kind of summary is this:

According to Rosen, Romney’s attempt to connect to women through his wife is inartful because Ann Romney’s lack of real-world experience makes her unable to connect to real women.

Nowhere did Rosen say “real women”. Nowhere. This is dripping with bias. So I went to the DC website for the first time. First thing I see is apologies for out-there Allen West, who this week made one of the most hilariously backward statements in recent memory, talking about dozens of Communists in Congress.

Now, through the pipeline of political nonsense of talk shows, a large percentage of Americans are going to think that “real women” was a quote from Rosen. Spreading lies, making Everests from molehills. Not exactly good for America.

Here’s another take:

[Hilary Rosen vs. Ann Romney: why the dust-up is fake

Much of the fighting over ‘women’s issues’ feels like manufactured outrage. In the latest example, Republicans are pouncing on a comment by Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen about Ann Romney.](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Dec...-Rosen-vs.-Ann-Romney-why-the-dust-up-is-fake)

 

[_Abyssinia]

The statement might be questionable but more so is the dishonesty of the “Daily Caller”, a rag website offshoot from FOX TV. What kind of summary is this:

Nowhere did Rosen say “real women”. Nowhere. This is dripping with bias. So I went to the DC website for the first time. First thing I see is apologies for out-there Allen West, who this week made one of the most hilariously backward statements in recent memory, talking about dozens of Communists in Congress.

Now, through the pipeline of political nonsense of talk shows, a large percentage of Americans are going to think that “real women” was a quote from Rosen. Spreading lies, making Everests from molehills. Not exactly good for America.

Here’s another take:

‘Real women’ was not put in quotes on the Daily Caller, that phrase was not said to have been from Rosen.

 

[scipio337]

The statement might be questionable but more so is the dishonesty of the “Daily Caller”, a rag website offshoot from FOX TV. What kind of summary is this:

Nowhere did Rosen say “real women”. Nowhere. This is dripping with bias. So I went to the DC website for the first time. First thing I see is apologies for out-there Allen West, who this week made one of the most hilariously backward statements in recent memory, talking about dozens of Communists in Congress.

Now, through the pipeline of political nonsense of talk shows, a large percentage of Americans are going to think that “real women” was a quote from Rosen. Spreading lies, making Everests from molehills. Not exactly good for America.

Here’s another take:

Trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear? Most Democrats (including the DNC) are running for cover.

Michelle Obama echoed Romney on Twitter, saying “every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected.” Obama’s campaign has distanced itself from Rosen’s remarks.

Obama’s campaign and advisers quickly distanced themselves from Rosen. President Obama’s campaign manager said she should apologize. No way, says Rosen.

Now the Democratic National Committee is as well, saying that she doesn’t work for them – despite a Wall Street Journal report saying last month that she was a DNC advisor to Chairwoman and Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

“She’s not an adviser to the DNC - the DNC’s contract for media services is exclusively with Anita Dunn,” said spokesman Brad Woodhouse via email. Asked about the journal article, Woodhouse said “I don’t have any idea what the wsj’s source for that is - our contract is exclusively with Anita Dunn.”

Obama campaign adviser Jim Messina distanced himself from Rosen via Twitter: “I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly. Her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. She should apologize.” Obama adviser David Axelrod soon Tweeted “Also disappointed in Hilary Rosen’s comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive.”

miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/04/top-dems-distance-themselves-from-hilary-rosen-dnc-she-doesnt-work-for-us.html

 

[scipio337]

Axelrod and Messina are correct in distancing themselves, and the Obama campaign:

Hilary Rosen, Frequent White House Visitor.

…Having said that, White House visitor logs indicate that “Hilary Rosen” visited the White House 35 times.

Gen. David Petraeus, head of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the current CIA director, nine times.

Further perspective: Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. (Guests are listed by name, not by title, so it is theoretically possible these totals count a separate person with the same name. In the case of Chu, I’m presuming he is the one listing of “Steve Chu” as well as the 15 “Stephen Chu” listings.)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki has visited 19 times.

Former CIA director and current Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, 12 times.

Perhaps most surprisingly, the name “Joseph R. Biden” appears . . . 6 times.

nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/295838/hillary-rosen-frequent-white-house-visitor

Ooops.

Actual visitor logs are here:

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records

 

[_Abyssinia]

Hilary Rosen has apologized, but why didn’t she this morning when she appeared on CNN?

Rosen Apologizes … Then Triples Down
Amid a massive backlash from the American public and a stampeding retreat from her supporters, Democratic National Committee advisor Hilary Rosen backtracked from her words about Ann Romney last night on CNN, stating a few moments ago, “As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen … I apologize to Ann Romney.” Here’s the complete statement:

Let’s put the faux “war against stay at home moms” to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women’s financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.

This is not an apology. It is a declaration of war. As I pointed out earlier today, the piece to which Rosen links says that Ann Romney is not an “expert” on women, and essentially makes the claim that she can’t speak for women because she was a stay-at-home mom. She says that gender equality isn’t a talking point for her, but she also deems certain lifestyle choices disqualifying in terms of representing other women. This is no “phony war.” It’s a very real war, started by the left–and they’re only declaring it “phony” now that their true feelings about women with whom they disagree politically are revealed.

The question is whether the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee will apologize to Romney, and whether they will fire Rosen over this incident. Rosen has long been associated with the Obama team and the DNC, and her apology means virtually nothing considering that she’s still defending the substance of the comments.
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breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/12/Rosen-Apologizes

Rosen’s apology will do nothing to tame this.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Axelrod and Messina are correct in distancing themselves, and the Obama campaign:

nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/295838/hillary-rosen-frequent-white-house-visitor

Ooops.

Actual visitor logs are here:

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records

If Rosen was a rogue pundit saying what she said about Ann Romney this would probably go away in the next few days, but he fact she is closely connected to the Obama campaign, this is not going to go away.

 

[estesbob]

Hilary Rosen has apologized, but why didn’t she this morning when she appeared on CNN?

Rosen Apologizes … Then Triples Down
Amid a massive backlash from the American public and a stampeding retreat from her supporters, Democratic National Committee advisor Hilary Rosen backtracked from her words about Ann Romney last night on CNN, stating a few moments ago, “As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen … I apologize to Ann Romney.” Here’s the complete statement:

Let’s put the faux “war against stay at home moms” to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women’s financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.

This is not an apology. It is a declaration of war. As I pointed out earlier today, the piece to which Rosen links says that Ann Romney is not an “expert” on women, and essentially makes the claim that she can’t speak for women because she was a stay-at-home mom. She says that gender equality isn’t a talking point for her, but she also deems certain lifestyle choices disqualifying in terms of representing other women. This is no “phony war.” It’s a very real war, started by the left–and they’re only declaring it “phony” now that their true feelings about women with whom they disagree politically are revealed.

The question is whether the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee will apologize to Romney, and whether they will fire Rosen over this incident. Rosen has long been associated with the Obama team and the DNC, and her apology means virtually nothing considering that she’s still defending the substance of the comments.
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breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/12/Rosen-Apologizes

Rosen’s apology will do nothing to tame this.

I disagree with the “:she should be fired part” if we start firing people for saying stupid things there will be very few people still employed.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear? Most Democrats (including the DNC) are running for cover.

Michelle Obama echoed Romney on Twitter, saying “every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected.” Obama’s campaign has distanced itself from Rosen’s remarks.

Obama’s campaign and advisers quickly distanced themselves from Rosen. President Obama’s campaign manager said she should apologize. No way, says Rosen.

Obama campaign is running for the hills from Rosen’s comments, they know it looks terrible to women who are going to bote in the November election and it throws the Democrat’s Republican ‘war on women’ rhetoric in to disarray.

 

[_Abyssinia]

I disagree with the “:she should be fired part” if we start firing people for saying stupid things there will be very few people still employed.

I don’t know if Ben Shapiro is saying Rosen should be fired, just questioning if the Democrat National Convention will fire her.

 

[seekerz]

If Rosen was a rogue pundit saying what she said about Ann Romney this would probably go away in the next few days, but he fact she is closely connected to the Obama campaign, this is not going to go away.

And there’s something to “go away” in any of this? Of course the Obama campaign will distance itself - Obama hardly ever sticks his neck out if there is even a hint of a drizzle of rain…If Romney wants to channel women and specifically their employment issues, through his never-employed-outside-the-home wife, I think it’s a legitimate point to challenge them on, the resulting hubbub notwithstanding.

Like I said before, I would not hire a mechanic to wire my house. Nothing against mechanics or electricians. The DNC may choose to throw her under the bus (wouldn’t be the first time) but that doesn’t make anything Rosen said wrong. You don’t go out into the sun unprotected if you have sensitive skin…politics is for strong people.

 

[Jerry_Miah]

If Rosen was a rogue pundit saying what she said about Ann Romney this would probably go away in the next few days, but he fact she is closely connected to the Obama campaign, this is not going to go away.

Well, you hope. But I doubt the Republicans really will want to fight the “War on Women” debate with this puny ammo.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Well, you hope. But I doubt the Republicans really will want to fight the “War on Women” debate with this puny ammo.

Say it’s ‘puny’ to the millions of stay at home mothers who will likely be offended by Rosen’s comments.

If Rosen’s comments are so ‘puny’ why did David Axelrod and co quickly denounce them.

 

[scipio337]

And there’s something to “go away” in any of this? Of course the Obama campaign will distance itself - Obama hardly ever sticks his neck out if there is even a hint of a drizzle of rain…If Romney wants to channel women and specifically their employment issues, through his never-employed-outside-the-home wife, I think it’s a legitimate point to challenge them on, the resulting hubbub notwithstanding.

Like I said before, I would hire a mechanic to wire my house. Nothing against mechanics or electricians. The DNC may choose to throw her under the bus (wouldn’t be the first time) but that doesn’t make anything Rosen said wrong. You don’t go out into the sun unprotected if you have sensitive skin…

By marginalizing the “never-employed-outside-the-home” portion?

Good luck with that.

Now do we get to hear the rationalizations that such an attack is acceptable because Ann Romney is a public figure?

Hypocrite, thy name is the modern left.

 

[seekerz]

Say it’s ‘puny’ to the millions of stay at home mothers who will likely be offended by Rosen’s comments.

If Rosen’s comments are so ‘puny’ why did David Axelrod and co quickly denounce them.

'Cause some people’s political style is to act like wet wimps. Supposedly it attracts those who hate having their preconceived notions even the least bit disturbed.

 

[scipio337]

Well, you hope. But I doubt the Republicans really will want to fight the “War on Women” debate with this puny ammo.

But Rosen said there really isn’t any “War on Women”, that’s just propoganda that Republicans are spreading around, remember?

 

[_Abyssinia]

And there’s something to “go away” in any of this? Of course the Obama campaign will distance itself - Obama hardly ever sticks his neck out if there is even a hint of a drizzle of rain…If Romney wants to channel women and specifically their employment issues, through his never-employed-outside-the-home wife, I think it’s a legitimate point to challenge them on, the resulting hubbub notwithstanding.

Like I said before, I would not hire a mechanic to wire my house. Nothing against mechanics or electricians. The DNC may choose to throw her under the bus (wouldn’t be the first time) but that doesn’t make anything Rosen said wrong. You don’t go out into the sun unprotected if you have sensitive skin…politics is for strong people.

But Obama stuck his neck out to apologize to Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh called her a rude name. Rush Limbaugh is not an adviser to Republican National Convention. I wonder if Ann Romney is going to be phoned later by Obama; Hilary Rosen was not a radio show host like Rush Limbaugh, she was enlisted by the Obama campaign to advise DNC chair Debbie Wusserman Schultz.

 

[seekerz]

By marginalizing the “never-employed-outside-the-home” portion?

Good luck with that.

Now do we get to hear the rationalizations that such an attack is acceptable because Ann Romney is a public figure?

Hypocrite, thy name is the modern left.

Let me get this straight, Ann Romney is the one who, by his own public admission, provides her husband perspective for his “Obama’s waging a war on women by losing their jobs” strategy, but when her role is challenged it’s hypocrisy to call that fair game?

Hypocrisy is NOT the word for this game…I think it actually just became a compliment!

 

[estesbob]

By marginalizing the “never-employed-outside-the-home” portion?

Good luck with that.

Now do we get to hear the rationalizations that such an attack is acceptable because Ann Romney is a public figure?

Hypocrite, thy name is the modern left.

It it wasn’t for double standards the Left would have no standards