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Misconstruing Things - White House Press Briefing by Robert Gibbs 1/28/09
— Thursday, January 29, 2009 —
 Q Senator Mitchell, in fact, right now is in the Mideast, and Bloomberg has reported that the firm that he chaired -- they have all kinds of lobbying clients in the Mideast, for example. So how can he go to the Mideast when his -- the firm --
MR. GIBBS: Let's not take a lot of things and misconstrue, right? You know, let's not take --
Q Which part is misconstrued?
MR. GIBBS: Well, has Senator Mitchell lobbied?
Q He is not registered lobbyist, but he is chair --
MR. GIBBS: Okay. So let's not --
Q -- business, so isn't that another way to get around it?
MR. GIBBS: I assume that maybe media organizations are owned by different businesses that conduct different things that might not altogether represent the interests of the media interest in general. But let's not take a group and an example and try to squish it into something that it's not.
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