Lying is just as casual a campaign strategy as placing bumper stickers for the President Obama Campaign. Lying is another one of those “Chicago Values” that seem heavily favored by President Obama and his legions of lying accomplices. It is, quite simply, how they engage in campaigning. It’s how they roll.
Yesterday Stephanie Cutter appeared on CNN and was questioned about the Priorities USA attack ad against Mitt Romney. Hopefully by now the vast majority of the citizenry know the content of the ad itself was false. But not because of the truthseeking from the Institutional Legacy Media.
Amind Ms. Cutters obfuscations and responses to questioning, she was openly lying to CNN. Not only did Priorities USA coordinate their attack with the Obama Campaign, which is illegal itself, but also Ms. Cutter appears to claim no knowledge of the specifics for Joe Soptic’s claim. On May 14th the following article ran on the C-SPAN website:
Earlier on Monday, Obama for America campaign held a conference call with reporters announcing a new ad, video and website that take a look at Mitt Romney’s business philosophy and what it would mean for the American economy.
New York, May 14th 2012 – […] The campaign released a six-minute video, “Steel.” featuring “the story of GST Steel, which was purchased by Bain Capital and subsequently shuttered after more than 100 years of business. After purchasing the company, Mitt Romney and his partners loaded it with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy. The campaign is also releasing a two-minute ad featuring the story of GST Steel that will run in select battleground states”.
The video will be featured on RomneyEconomics.com, a new website “that allows the American people to learn the real story of Mitt Romney’s business record.”
The conference call was lead by Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter and featured Joe Soptic, a former employee who lost his job after Bain Capital closed the Kansas City GST Steel plant and David Foster, the lead negotiator for the workers at GST Steel. (article)
The audio of the conference call is here.
This is campaigning on the politics of personal destruction in the worst form. Not only does the campaign create the false framing, but in addition the campaign lies about their role in the false framing.
The Obama 2012 campaign itself is based on lies and distractions. Hence you see Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying on the floor of the Senate that candidate Mitt Romney has not paid taxes for over ten years. Another blatent and provable lie.