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Video: Mika Brzezinski takes Obama campaign to task for lying about cancer ad
Hot Air ^ | August 8, 2012 | MARY KATHRYN HAM

Posted on 08/09/2012 10:54:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

s they say, it’s not the disgusting Mitt-murder ad that gets you. It’s the disgusting Mitt-murder ad cover-up. Mika does not approve. Allow Allahpundit to walk you through what the Obama campaign knew when. Short version: I’m Stephanie Cutter and I know nothing about this guy and his story, and it’d really make things easier if people would stop noticing we shot an ad with him and that he was the star of a conference call I hosted. Kthxbai.

Here’s the “Morning Joe” crew getting a little raw on Team Obama:

"Morning Joe" Takes Obama Camp To Task For Not Telling Truth On Obama Super PAC Ad

It’s probably unfair to give you a second shot of Bill Burton before noon, but it’s worth it to hear him stumble and bumble through this genuinely ridiculous justification for yet another CNN anchor not doing his deferential duty to the Obama campaign.

He told Anderson Cooper Wednesday that it would “defy logic” to link Mitt Romney with someone’s death from cancer. Glad we’re on the same page, Bill.

COOPER: You claim — you really claim — you really want people to believe you’re not trying to link in any way even just subtly or not subtly that there’s some linkage between Mitt Romney, Bain campaign, business decisions he made and her death.

BURTON: It would defy logic to do so. Today that community is completely worn down. The whole area, the factory is abandoned. people still don’t have jobs in some cases. many folks still don’t have health insurance. people who do have jobs are being paid much less. And the point is that Mitt Romney’s business experience had a profound effect on the lives of thousands of people. That effect is still being felt, and that’s what this ad tells the story of. That’s what all our ads tell the story of.

COOPER: I don’t want to go back and forth on this, but this ad tells a specific story. More than half the ad is him talking very detailed about his wife.

BURTON: It’s a sad story.

COOPER: It is a sad story. but it truncates time in a way that makes it seem like he got fired, she didn’t have health insurance, which she did from her other job, her primary insurance, in fact –

BURTON: Not at the time when she died, though. She had health insurance for a short time.

COOPER: Because she lost her other job.

BURTON: But ultimately when Joe Soptic needed health insurance for his family, health insurance that had been promised to him by a contract that Mitt Romney helped to negotiate, he didn’t have that health insurance.

COOPER: Right. Because under bankruptcy protection, they were able to do away with the prom—

BURTON: Contract they made with workers. but they made plenty of money. All those workers got screwed.

COOPER: You can make an ad all about that. You’re implying — I think any rational or certainly nonpartisan soeb observer looks at this and says you are linking this. otherwise we would not put this in an ad.

BURTON: I think just the opposite. I think the rational thing to take away here is that — how on earth could you possibly imply that? What we’re saying that at a moment of true anxiety.

COOPER: How can you say how can you imply that? It’s totally disingenuous, Bill.

BURTON: I don’t think that’s true. I think that Mitt Romney had an effect on these people’s lives. And to talk about it is an important part of the story. Because he wants the American people to make a decision on whether or not he should be president based on his business experience. When people take a look at it and hear the stories of these folks they say I don’t want that guy to be president of the United States.

It’s Bill Burton’s birthday today, and his buddy Paul Begala thought it’d be great to commemorate the day by tweeting an embarrassing video clip of Burton’s most inept TV appearance to date. Gee, I know what I’m asking for this year.



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1 posted on 08/09/2012 10:54:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
That's right db. Double down on a failing strategy. Idiot.
2 posted on 08/09/2012 10:59:58 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Too many thinking Freepers have left the building...)
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To: Kaslin

If Mika the MILF had any cojones (figuratively speaking), she’d call her employer (NBC) out on their slavish acceptance of the very kind of negative political advertising she’s criticizing. That’ll happen right around the time I win Powerball.


3 posted on 08/09/2012 11:01:05 AM PDT by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Burton has always been nothing but a dirtbag. He fits in with the BO campaign perfectly.


4 posted on 08/09/2012 11:11:53 AM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Kaslin
If Romney can be blamed for something he had absolutely nothing to do with, does this mean we can start blaming Obama for the economy of his own making?
5 posted on 08/09/2012 11:11:53 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Kaslin

Democrats telling the truth would be a sure sign that we’re in the end times.


6 posted on 08/09/2012 11:12:32 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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7 posted on 08/09/2012 11:14:34 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Kaslin

You mean there is some Leftist crap Mika won’t happily swallow? What is this world coming to?


8 posted on 08/09/2012 11:20:03 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Obama MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Kaslin

You mean there is some Leftist crap Mika won’t happily swallow? What is this world coming to?


9 posted on 08/09/2012 11:20:20 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Obama MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Kaslin

I think this is the first POTUS campaign I’ve ever seen where one side accuses the other of murder. Not even alcohol connoissuer Ted Kennedy got that when he had the gall to run. But this is how low the foreign national will go to do a 2nd term.


10 posted on 08/09/2012 11:36:16 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Kaslin

I think this is the first POTUS campaign I’ve ever seen where one side accuses the other of murder. Not even alcohol connoissuer Ted Kennedy got that when he had the gall to run. But this is how low the foreign national will go to do a 2nd term.


11 posted on 08/09/2012 11:40:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Kaslin
Holy Free Condoms, Batgirl!

If O'Bozo loses Mika can TEOTWAWKI be far behind?


12 posted on 08/09/2012 11:41:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Kaslin

This Stephanie Cutter should go to jail for a long long time. For too long (and far too often) the GOP has let this kind of illegal activity slide. It is corrupting the very Democracy and is essentially thus treason. Those on the left will say that it hyperbole but it is not. A long jail sentence for Cutter is the only logical punishment, and the only thing that will stop this.
What is the absolute worst thing you can do against the people of a Democracy? Corrupt the election process.

This is what is happening by Cutter and others. Left or right there should be no room for any crimes against the democracy. IF the rank and file GOP do not push this and demand a prosecution and stiff sentence if found guilty, than they have no one to blame but themselves for election losses.


13 posted on 08/09/2012 11:51:09 AM PDT by rrdog
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It may well have started when Palin was blamed for the Arizona massacre.


14 posted on 08/09/2012 12:03:45 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Give the dirtbag in the wh credit, at least he didnt blame President Bush this time


15 posted on 08/09/2012 12:25:25 PM PDT by italianquaker ( Mr Obama inherited an AAA rating and made it AA, thnx Resident Zero)
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To: CaptainK

Oh that’s right! I forgot about that.


16 posted on 08/09/2012 12:44:22 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: CaptainK

Oh that’s right! I forgot about that.


17 posted on 08/09/2012 12:46:58 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: arrogantsob

Well said my FRiend


18 posted on 08/09/2012 8:06:29 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Kaslin

Is Burton willing to talk openly about the Delphi workers who lost their pensions because they were not union members?

ONLY the NON_UNION membera lost their pensions when Obama took over GM.

The union members still have theirs & got the balances brought up & made whole.


19 posted on 08/09/2012 8:13:47 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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