"'That's how government works,' Romney said. Then, to illustrate the advantages of competition in the private sector, Romney shared an anecdote from his visit to the local Wawa chain store. 'I was at Wawa's, I went in to order a sandwich. You press a little touchtone keypad -- you touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier -- there’s your sandwich. It’s amazing. People in the private sector have learned how to compete. It's time to bring some competition to the federal government.'
"But in the MSNBC clip, which first aired on Andrea Mitchell Reports, Romney's remarks begin with the Wawa anecdote and end at 'It's amazing,'" as though he's never seen it before. But somebody was there with a telephone, a cell phone, and they were video recording the whole thing. And so the Drive-By can't get away with these edits. This really is nothing new. Them getting caught at it is what's new. Because everybody's a journalist.
And they can't stand it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites. Here's the report as aired by Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington.
MITCHELL: Maybe this was Mitt Romney's, uh, supermarket scanner moment, but I get the feeling -- take a look at this -- that Mitt Romney has not been in too many Wawas (snickers) along the roadside in Pennsylvania.
ROMNEY: By the way, where do you get your hoagies here? Do you get them at Wawa's? Is that where you get 'em? Well, I went to a place today called Wawa's. You ever been to Wawa's? Anybody been there?
AUDIENCE: (cheers and muttering)
ROMNEY: Some people don't...? I'm sorry. I know it's a very big state divide. But we went to Wawa's. [MSNBC edit] I was at Wawa's. I went in to order a sandwich. You press the little touch-tone keypad, all right? You just touch that, and, you know, the sandwich comes. You touch this, touch this, touch this; go pay the cashier. There's your sandwich. It's amazing.
MITCHELL: (snickers) "It's amazing."MSNBC: (guffawing)
RUSH: "It's amazing. It's amazing." And they all started laughing at MSNBC. Here's what Romney actually said.
ROMNEY: By the way, where do you get your hoagies here? Do you get them at Wawa's? Is that where you get 'em? Well, I went to a place today called Wawa's. You ever been to Wawa's? Anybody been there?
AUDIENCE: (cheers and muttering)
ROMNEY: Some people don't...? I'm sorry. I know it's a very big state divide. But we went to Wawa's. And it was instructive to me, because I saw the difference between the private sector and the governmental sector. Look, the people who work in government are good people, and I respect what they do. But, you see, the challenge with government is it doesn't have competition.
RUSH: And he continued...
ROMNEY: Then I was at Wawa's. I went in to order a sandwich. You press the little touch-tone keypad, all right? You just touch that, and, you know, the sandwich comes. You touch this, touch this, touch this; go pay the cashier. There's your sandwich. It's amazing. People in the private sector have learned how to compete. It's time to bring some competition to the federal government so it can begin to --
AUDIENCE: (applause and cheers)
ROMNEY: -- respond to customers, which are you!
AUDIENCE: (applause and cheers)
RUSH: MSNBC got caught. They got caught. And in the process, by the way, everybody's repeating the lie about George H. W. Bush's scanner incident. In reality, Bush was at grocers convention. He was being shown a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes. It was new and amazing for the times, and it was not yet widespread commercially. But in this case, while they continue to spread the lie about George H. W. Bush, this is exactly what NBC fired three people for doing in the Trayvon Martin case.
Now, somebody needs to ask some serious questions.
You at NBC are becoming a laughingstock, and don't think this is just confined to MSNBC. This is NBC corporate. It was NBC corporate and local in Miami that monkeyed around with the Zimmerman 911 tape, and now this. And what people are learning is that it really isn't new. It's standard operating procedure when you attempt, in the mainstream media, to criticize and impugn Republicans. This is blatant. And because somebody was there and able to record the whole thing with their cell phone, MSNBC and NBC are totally exposed.
Again.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Somebody just said to me, maybe the fired NBC producer in Miami who doctored the George Zimmerman 911 tape was transferred over to MSNBC to ply his or her wares there. That could very well be. I'm still not convinced they fired anybody. I think everybody they hire's capable of this. This is corruption, folks. First, the George Zimmerman 911 tape, and now this. All Mitt Romney was doing was talking about ordering sandwiches in a private sector store is easier than telling the government where to send your paychecks. He was talking about an optometrist who was not getting paid. The federal government was not submitting his checks, a total of 33 of them. The guy could not get paid because of the bureaucratic nightmare of dealing with the federal government.
Romney was telling everybody about how simple it is to go order a sandwich at Wawa's. By the way, I didn't know. I'd never heard of Wawa's. I had no idea that Barbara Walters had a bunch of stores that sold sandwiches in 'em. Yeah, I knew you could order sandwiches pushing buttons, I know about that, but I didn't know Barbara Walters owned any of these stores. Well, the last time I was in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, I was at a football stadium, Heinz Field. I haven't been to a Wawa's. Anyway, let me tell you something, folks. This is institutional corruption, and NBC, this is the second time this has happened. By the way, you heard the laughter on that clip when Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington, was trying to make fun of Romney. That was our buddy Chris Cillizza yukking it up there. Now, Chris Cillizza shoulda known. Everybody involved in this knew what really happened, and if they didn't, they don't qualify as journalists. They had no business being hired and doing their jobs.
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