John Sununu calls major TV networks ‘hypocritical’ on convention coverage
Source: Washington Post
A leading surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign called the major television networks “hypocritical” for making millions of dollars from campaign advertisements but reserving only three hours for prime-time broadcasts from the Republican National Convention.
John H. Sununu, a former New Hampshire governor and White House chief of staff, said in an interview Saturday that the three major broadcast networks “have become great takers and not enough givers,” pointing to their decision not to broadcast from Tampa on Monday, the convention’s first day.
ABC, CBS and NBC will each broadcast from the convention for one hour on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, as well as on Thursday night, when Romney will deliver his acceptance speech. The networks will give equal time to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next month.
GOP officials failed to persuade the major broadcast networks to add coverage on Monday night, although C-SPAN and the cable news networks are planning complete live coverage of the entire convention.
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hellfest for you?! 
You're one of the biggest "takers" on the planet, you self-aggrandizing asshole.
(meanwhile rethugs still try to defund them
)
Sununu angered some when he was the only governor of a U.S. state not to call for repeal of the controversial UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 ("Zionism is Racism"
. He later reversed his position on this issue and supported the Republicans' pro-Israel 1988 platform.[11]
As White House Chief of Staff, Sununu reportedly took personal trips, for skiing and other purposes, and classified them as official, for purposes such as conservation or promoting the Thousand Points of Light.[16] The Washington Post wrote that Sununu's jets "took him to fat-cat Republican fund-raisers, ski lodges, golf resorts and even his dentist in Boston."[16] Sununu had paid the government only $892 for his more than $615,000 worth of military jet travel.[17] Sununu said that his use of the jets was necessary because he had to be near a telephone at all times for reasons of national security.[18] Sununu became the subject of much late-night television humor over the incident.[16] Sununu worsened the situation shortly afterwards when, after leaking rumors of financial difficulties in his family, he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie's auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine, spending $5,000 on rare stamps.[19] Sununu then sent the car and driver back to Washington unoccupied while he returned on a corporate jet.[19] In the course of one week, 45 newspapers ran editorials on Sununu, nearly all of them critical of his actions.[20]
Sununu repaid over $47,000 to the government for the flights on the orders of White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, with the help of the Republican Party.[21] However, the reimbursements were at commercial rates, which are about one-tenth the cost of the actual flights; one ski trip to Vail, Colorado alone had cost taxpayers $86,330.[22]
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