If you enjoyed a blissfully politics-free day Sunday, you missed Newark Mayor Cory Booker call Team Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital and private equity firms “crap.” The rare moment of honesty from an Obama surrogate won points with many on the Right and attracted bile from the Left.
With the onslaught of hate and demands that he get back to toeing the line, Booker quickly recorded a YouTube video clarifying his statements. RNC staffer Tim Miller called it a “hostage tape.”
Hostage tape MT @chrisdonovannbc: Booker posts video after saw "so much feedback" to his comments on #MTP – http://t.co/iQKavldc”
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 20, 2012
And it wasn’t enough for the Obama campaign whose editors sliced and diced nearly four minutes into a 30 second endorsement.
The Obama campaign heavily edits Cory Booker's follow-up to this morning's remarks: http://t.co/fiqfeB72
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 21, 2012
This morning, the “hostage tape” comparison was used again on “Morning Joe” and National Review‘s Jim Geraghty is running with that ever so apt description in a brilliant series of tweets using the hashtag #FreeCoryBooker.
https://twitter.com/#!/jimgeraghty/status/204561935960780800
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https://twitter.com/#!/jimgeraghty/status/204594043395637249
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Twitchy will bring you more on this tense hostage situation as it becomes available.
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