Good for CNN.
It is nice to know that there is water so vile and polluted, that even CNN won’t carry it.
Cobra is there for a reason for those people who value those reasons.
Great ‘slip up’ from CNN :>)
What?! This story is going to be complete garbage by the time they get done.
When did Romney leave bain?
Soptic is a poor excuse for a man.
Joe Soptic pimped his dead wife. Typical rat.
The lies piled up in the ad are despicable and besmirch the memory of the steelworker's wife.
Hmmmmm, is CNN trying to turn around it continuing slide in the ratings? Telling the truth is a step in the right direction.
I just heard this on Mark Levin show. WOWOWOWOWOW!!!
I swear Clinton must be pissing himself laughing at these clowns...
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.
You can always count on OBots to lie.
Did Joe find another job before his wife quit her job? Also, how long till someone divulges the unspecified injury she sustained?
He stated that when the husband lost his job the wife was still employed elsewhere and had medical insurance through her employer. Sometime later she voluntarily quit her job and lost her health insurance. It was after she left her job that she discovered she had cancer.
This will be al over the news tomorrow but the seed has been planted by this filthy, underhanded video.
Woman Mentioned In Priorities Ad Died In '06 (Politico)
The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action lobbed a heavy-duty attack at Mitt Romney this morning, airing an ad that links the closure of a GST Steel plant in Kansas City to the loss of a family’s health insurance — and the death of a woman some time later.
The man speaking in the ad, Joe Soptic, says, “Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care and my family lost their health care. And a short time after that my wife became ill.” Soptic explains he’s not exactly sure when his wife became sick, but that when he took her to the hospital she had undetected, advanced cancer and died 22 days later.
The Romney campaign has pushed back on other GST Steel-related attacks by arguing that the plant in Kansas City closed after he stepped away from his management job at Bain. (Democrats counter that Romney was still listed as a top executive at Bain through 2002, and that he built up the private equity firm during the time it invested in GST Steel.)
In the case of this particularly jarring super PAC ad, it may also be relevant that Soptic’s wife died in 2006, years after the GST factory closed down.
A 2006 story in the Kansas City Star reported the death of Ranae Soptic, a former champion roller skater: “Soptic went to the hospital for pneumonia, but doctors found signs of very advanced cancer, and she died two weeks later on June 22.”
I asked Priorities USA strategist Bill Burton to explain the connection between Romney, Bain and a cancer fatality that happened near the end of Romney’s tenure as governor of Massachusetts. The lapse in time between the plant closing and Soptic’s death doesn’t mean the ad is invalid, but it raises questions about the cause and effect relationship here.
“We’re illustrating how long it took for communities and individuals to recover from the closing of these businesses,” Burton responded. “Families and individuals had to find new jobs, new sources of health insurance and a way to make up for the pensions they lost. Mitt Romney has had an enduring impact on the lives of thousands of men and women and for many of them, that impact has been devastating.”
Like most of the outside-group ads in the 2012 race, the fairness of this one is open to interpretation. But both the Priorities attack and the new welfare-themed hit on Obama from the Romney campaign are provoking more intense outrage — both publicly and privately — than most of the other spots we’ve seen this summer.
Once again, excellent post.
Thank you for doing what you do, Kristinn.
What WE need to do is go on our local news sites that have message boards and, “Special Investigative Reporters,” and post this there for their, “Fact check,” articles.
Start the debate. Open people’s eyes.
Don’t let them get away with their crap.
Here’s my example:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/31338921/detail.html
What’s next thing the Obamatons will accuse Romney of doing: volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, mass starvation, the heartbreak of psoriasis?