Radio Host Tangles With DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Over Obama’s ‘You Didn‘t Build That’ Remarks
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was recently put in the position of defending Obama’s inflammatory remarks in Roanoke, Virginia, where the president told business-owners, “you didn’t build that,“ and ”somebody else made that happen.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, Schultz went on the offensive, saying that the clip was taken out of context and really just a sign of desperation from the Romney campaign.
WCHE host Bill Mason began the interview by saying he was “just stunned” by the president’s speech, asking Schultz:
“Is there a fundamental difference here, where the President believes that all positive things flow from the federal government whereas Mitt Romney and many people believe that good things flow from the private sector and that they should not be demonized and demagogued for creating jobs?” [Emphasis added]
Rather than respond to the stated question, Wasserman-Schultz declared:
Bill, now [it’s] absolutely ludicrous to suggest that taking the President’s statement, which was in the middle of a speech, that that’s what that said. Mitt Romney’s campaign right now has gone off the deep end, suggesting, I mean they’re reeling in these accusations that they have no answer to. So what they’re trying to do is change the storyline away from his Bain tenure and his investments in foreign tax havens when the bottom line is that President Obama was talking about any business owner, who has been successful– you know, they obviously have pulled themselves up by their boot straps, have put their own blood, sweat and tears into making that business successful, but that nobody’s success can be credited just to themselves.
President Obama was talking about the fact that the investments made so that we can have roads to help move vehicles, so that we can have an Internet so that more business owners could actually sell their goods across the globe, so we could ensure that they have employees that get a good education, and therefore they have highly-qualified personnel to help them run their businesses.
[What] President Obama was talking about yesterday and Romney and the Republicans well-know it, was that we all need to pull together. We all need to be working together. [No] one person, no one business owner is able to do it all by themselves. We’re all in this together and that’s the approach President Obama takes to governing, so to suggest that he said anything other than that is a distraction. [Emphasis added]
Listen to audio from the show, via RealClearPolitics, below:
Without mentioning the non sequitur in Schultz’s speech– which began with the assertion that Romney’s campaign “has gone off the deep end” and ended with “we all need to be working together,“ host Bill Mason said he watched the clip ”like ten times,” trying to figure out how it was taken out of context.
He concluded: “I don’t know how else you can interpret it.”
From there, the two engaged in a back-and-forth with Schultz persisting that Barack Obama didn’t really mean “you didn’t build that”, while Mason said: “Congresswoman [it's] not out of context, I mean I went back and reviewed it. If it was, I’d say it.”
Schultz pre-emptively declared an “agree to disagree,” but commenters (at the time of this article’s publication) still seem overwhelming displeased with Schultz and her attempt to defend the president’s statements.
“The Government takes, businesses give, period,” one said. “Whatever dollars were spent…was funded by tax payers… If it wasn’t for the citizens, individuals and businesses, there wouldn’t be any dollars for the government.”
Another added: “You’ll have to excuse her, she’s … not thinking straight since someone dropped a house on her sister.”
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