White House: Sherrod Brown should apologize for Obama comments
The White House’s top spokesman suggested Wednesday that Sen. Sherrod Brown should apologize for saying President Obama was “disrespectful” to another Senate Democrat.
“Sen. Brown is a stand-up guy and I’m confident that … he’ll find a way to apologize,” Josh Earnest, Obama’s spokesman, said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, Brown chastised Obama for remarks the president made about Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who is a vocal opponent of the White House’s push for fast-track trade legislation.
Asked about Warren’s criticisms of the trade proposal, Obama said: “You know, the truth of the matter is that Elizabeth is a politician like everybody else, and she’s got a voice that she wants to get out there. I understand that, and on most issues, she and I deeply agree. On this one, though, her arguments don’t stand the test of fact and scrutiny. “
On Tuesday, Brown said Obama’s remarks were “disrespectful” and the president was making this fight “more personal than he needed to.” He also suggested that Obama was being sexist by using Warren’s first name in the interview “when he might not have done that for a male senator.”
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