Rahm Emanuel - ABC 'This Week'

Rahm Emanuel spent some of Father's Day shilling for Obama.

He was interviewed by guest host Jake Tapper on ABC's This Week.

Transcript

Note: ABC isn't too careful about its transcripts. "Rahn" Emanuel?

JAKE TAPPER, HOST: Hello, and happy Father's Day. Joining me this morning, the president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

Mr. Emanuel, happy Father's Day.

RAHN [sic] EMANUEL, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Thanks, Jake.

TAPPER: Before we start the questions, I'm interested in your reactions to photographs from Saturday's BP CEO Tony Hayward at a yacht race off the Isle of Wight in the clean waters off southern England. What goes through your mind when you see those pictures?

EMANUEL: Well, to quote Tony Hayward, he has got his life back, he would say. And I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting. This has just been part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes.

But beyond that photo is really the substance here that matters. That's clearly a PR mistake and he has made a number of those mistakes. What's important is, are we capping the well? Are we capturing the oil? Are we containing the clean-up? Are we filing the claims? Are we also cleaning up the mess? That's what's important.

Now this is a mistake and it's a big mistake, like others he has done in the sense when he said himself, he has got his life back. Well, that's what's more important is, do the people down there in that area have their life back? Do they have their livelihood back?

So this is just another PR mistake in a long line of PR mistakes. What I think you've got to really measure is, what are we doing to deal with this problem? What is BP being forced to do to deal with this problem, both contain the well, even getting the $20 billion for the escrow account.

That's the measure here. This will be fodder, as you would obviously ask this question. People will chew over this.

So Emanuel is out there trying to stoke the anger for Tony Hayward and BP, diverting attention away from the blame and anger people are directing at Obama.

In my opinion, Obama spending Friday evening at the White Sox - Nationals game and then dragging around a golf course with Joe Biden for hours and hours on Saturday afternoon are just more PR mistakes in a long line of PR mistakes.

Obama is not going to have a second career in PR consulting. His presidency has been part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes.
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Here's video of Tapper's interview with Rahm Emanuel.