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CNN Priorities USA Fact Check (Steelworker's wife 'killed' by Romney quit job w/ health insurance)
CNN via YouTube ^ | Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Posted on 08/07/2012 5:34:00 PM PDT by kristinn

No description at YouTube, so my write up:

CNN's Brianna Kielar spoke with Joe Soptic, a former steelworker featured in a new pro-Obama super PAC ad who was laid off in 2001 when Bain Capital closed the company he had worked at for a reported 30 years. Without directly accusing Soptic and Priorities USA of being despicable liars, CNN lets its reporting call them out as despicable liars.

Soptic told CNN his wife had her own health insurance at her own job when he was laid off. Soptic said his wife quit her job a year or two later due to an unspecified injury, thereby losing her own health insurance. But Soptic still blames her death in 2006 from a brief bout with cancer due to his lack of family health insurance because he was laid off in 2001. In the Priorities USA ad, Soptic says it was a "short time later" from when he was laid off to when his wife got sick and died. CNN reports it was actually five years.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agitprop; bain; cnn; democratscandals; dnctalkingpoints; joesoptic; liarsforobama; liarsoptic; mediawingofthednc; obama; obamaattackads; obamaattacks; obamalies; partisanmediashills; prioritiesusa; ranaesoptic; romney; romneyattackads; smearcampaign; soptic; thebiglie
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Kudos to CNN for blowing the whistle on this appalling Obama ad.
1 posted on 08/07/2012 5:34:11 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
wait...lemme understand this: obama's criticizing romney on healthcare? Isn't that what I see a picture of in the dictionary when I look up "bad idea"?
2 posted on 08/07/2012 5:38:43 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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To: kristinn

Good for CNN.


3 posted on 08/07/2012 5:39:09 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$, A$PCA, or PETA.)
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To: kristinn

It is nice to know that there is water so vile and polluted, that even CNN won’t carry it.


4 posted on 08/07/2012 5:40:27 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: kristinn

Cobra is there for a reason for those people who value those reasons.

Great ‘slip up’ from CNN :>)


5 posted on 08/07/2012 5:41:16 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: kristinn
Soptic said his wife quit her job a year or two later due to an unspecified injury

What?! This story is going to be complete garbage by the time they get done.

6 posted on 08/07/2012 5:41:45 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: kristinn

When did Romney leave bain?


7 posted on 08/07/2012 5:42:51 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: kristinn

Soptic is a poor excuse for a man.


8 posted on 08/07/2012 5:43:26 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: kristinn

Joe Soptic pimped his dead wife. Typical rat.


9 posted on 08/07/2012 5:43:41 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: kristinn

Here’s the video:

http://youtu.be/nwOtT3PjP-0


10 posted on 08/07/2012 5:43:41 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: kristinn
Mark Levin covering this on his show now.

The lies piled up in the ad are despicable and besmirch the memory of the steelworker's wife.

11 posted on 08/07/2012 5:43:41 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Keep feeding yourselves lies and screaming for action.)
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To: kristinn

Hmmmmm, is CNN trying to turn around it continuing slide in the ratings? Telling the truth is a step in the right direction.


12 posted on 08/07/2012 5:43:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: kristinn

I just heard this on Mark Levin show. WOWOWOWOWOW!!!


13 posted on 08/07/2012 5:44:16 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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Wow, so Messina sold Bobo on stale untrue ads? Because Joe Septic has been around and around before.

I swear Clinton must be pissing himself laughing at these clowns...

14 posted on 08/07/2012 5:46:29 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: kristinn

Today Rush posed the question: how should Romney respond to this kind of baloney?

The answer is: Don’t continue the narrative. Respond with something that turns the accusation back on Obama.


15 posted on 08/07/2012 5:46:54 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: SCalGal; fhayek; All
Here's the link to CNN's article and an excerpt:

Romney stopped his day-to-day oversight at Bain Capital in 1999 when he left to run the Salt Lake City Olympics, though he officially remained CEO until 2002. Bain Capital shut down GST Steel in 2001, costing Soptic his job.

According to Mr. Soptic, his wife received her primary insurance through her employer – a local thrift store called Savers – and retained it even after his layoff. Soptic's policy through GST Steel was her secondary coverage.

In 2002, Mitt Romney formally left Bain. Sometime in 2002 or 2003, Mr. Soptic says his wife injured her rotator cuff and was forced to leave her job. As a result she lost her health insurance coverage and Mr. Soptic's new job as a janitor did not provide coverage for his spouse.

It was a few years later, in 2006, that Ilyona Soptic went to the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia. She was diagnosed with stage four cancer and passed away just days later.

16 posted on 08/07/2012 5:48:11 PM PDT by kristinn (Dump the Chump in 2012)
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So if CNN is shining a light on the man and his misguided blame on Romney does that mean that Obama is trying to distance himself from this ad? After all CNN works for Obama
17 posted on 08/07/2012 5:49:12 PM PDT by funfan
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18 posted on 08/07/2012 5:50:41 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: kristinn

You can always count on OBots to lie.


19 posted on 08/07/2012 5:51:00 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: reasonisfaith

There is some fun going on on twitter right now for those that want to join. #OctoberObamaAds

Pretty funny stuff...lol


20 posted on 08/07/2012 5:51:35 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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