Schumer Rehearses Phony Talking Points With Fellow Dems, Oops! Reporters Listening – With Video

March 29th, 2011 (2) Posted By Knottie.

WashingtonExaminer

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Democratic Senate leadership, got on a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning without realizing the reporters were already listening in. Schumer thought he was on a private line with four Democratic senators who were to talk with reporters about the current budget stalemate.

Schumer instructed the group, made up of Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Tom Carper of Delaware, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, to tell reporters that the GOP is refusing to negotiate.

He told the group to make sure they label the GOP spending cuts as “extreme.”

“I always use extreme, Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use.”

Someone must have finally told Schumer that the media were listening and he stopped talking midsentence.

Here’s a bit more of what he said about House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, according to my notes.

“The main thrust is basically that we want to negotiate and we want to come up with a compromise but the Tea Party is pulling Boehner too far over to the right and so far over that there is no more fruitful negotiations,” Schumer said on the call. “The only way we can avoid a shutdown is for Boehner to come up with a reasonable compromise and not just listen to what the Tea Party wants. ”

Schumer described Boehner as “in a box,” over the budget negotiations.

The four senators came on the call after Schumer abruptly went silent and followed Schumer’s script closely.

Coordinating the message is common in both parties, but it’s uncommon for reporters to actually hear them rehearsing.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/schumer-coordinates-dem-budget-attack-gop#ixzz1I2VC8irQ

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  • amy

    I’d rather be “in a box” because of the Tea Party, than because of communists, socialists, gays & lesbians, environmentalists, etc.

  • Jim up north

    It makes no difference, the media would eat a yard of his shit just to kiss the source. Schumer is as anti american and anti freedom as they get. His whole existence is based on promoting the welfare class yet considers himself elite. He is a slimey prick in a tailored suit bought with funds stolen from what’s left of the working class in the dead state of NY. His battle cry ” lets raise taxes on the rich” I guess nobody told him most of the rich left. Many went south most to jersey.