the lazy ass media is calling bain 'a war of words'...

[spanone]

illegality? pfffft....

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2012 campaign enters a new phase, as Obama and Romney rachet up their attacks on each other

President Obama’s campaign has spent many months trying to portray Mitt Romney as an unprincipled flip-flopper, a panderer to right-wing extremists and a greedy business executive. Then this week the ante was upped when one Obama aide suggested that Romney may be something worse: a potential felon.

The latest charge, made by deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter in a conference call with reporters, provoked immediate outrage from the Romney campaign, which, in the course of demanding an apology, called the president of the United States a habitual liar.

“The facts are clear: President Obama has a pattern of running dishonest campaigns, and the American people deserve better,” Amanda Henneberg, Romney’s deputy press secretary, said in an e-mail Friday.

The intensified hostility and persistent name-calling dominated the campaign news Friday and signaled that the presidential contest was entering a new phase, moving from relentlessly negative to downright nasty. And in a sign that the tactics were taking a toll on both sides, each candidate felt compelled to conduct a series of television interviews to respond to the criticisms from the other camp.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2012-campaign-enters-a-new-phase-as-obama-and-romney-rachet-up-their-attacks-on-each-other/2012/07/13/gJQAofMqiW_story.html

[DCBob]

1. I wonder if it would be too much for them to do a little fact checking on the Romney claims.

They just act like spectators here. Good grief.

[spinbaby]

2. I was totally disgusted this morning

While I was staggering around getting my morning coffee, I flipped on one of the morning shows and found that the narratives of the morning are, "Kennedy scandal" and "Obama attacks."

[malaise]

3. M$Greedia's addiction to that ad money

outstrips the worst meth head or a coke head

[spanone]

12. it's fuggin' pathetic....our media is pathetic...at best

[byoung6]

4. I am getting the feeling that

"People like Mitt Romney" are not used to being questioned on whether he is teilling the truth. So, Him playing fast and loose with the truth to the SEC, and the State of mass and now the nation, is just not what he is used to having to deal with. Either he lied or he didn't, from the signatures on the papers and by the wages he drew from Bain, looks to me like he was still working there and is lieing.

[KharmaTrain]

8. The Sad Truth Is He Doesn't See It As Lying...

Willard has lived a very pampered life...and with it comes a feeling of "superiority"...one that has pushed him (as it did with boooosh jr. and other progeny of politicians) to become a "public servant". Actually it's more like "proving" that he's his own man...not his father's son. As a child of privilidge Mittens has been able to get breaks none of us cold ever think about. With the money came people looking the other way when he lied or bullied others...and he assumed this was normal...his own rules different from the others.

No surprise Rmoney thinks he shouldn't be questioned about his past and wealth...no one has ever dared to do that in the past and he honestly can't answer honestly. His life is build on lies and once one falls the rest go with it. So its his default setting...Willard has a real difficulty when it comes to being honest. Unfortunately the corporate media will overlook the flip-flops and lies cause they desperately want a "horse race".

Welcome to DU...

[99Forever]

9. Yes yes yes.

I am thinking almost the exact same thing. The pampered bully is astounded that anyone would stand up to him and call him out for his antisocial actions. It's never happened to him before. He IS a perfect example of how 1%ers think.Rules, honesty and laws are for everyone else but them.

[surrealAmerican]

10. There's really no question about ...

... whether he lied: it's a matter of when he lied, and if the lie was against the law. If he wasn't working there, he lied on those SEC forms. If he was, he lied during this campaign.

Welcome to DU. I agree that it doesn't seem to occur to him that anybody would actually check the facts here.

[HereSince1628]

5. Well that's how it works...truth, or anything like it, be damned

You oppose whatever attack is made, the media under the cover of 'balanced reporting' runs your language regardless of its truthiness.

The media and the public come to see it as a 'he said-he said'. Major campaign conflagration reduced to smoldering smoke screen.

[Scuba]

6. "Lazy ass"? I'd go with "complicit".

[surrealAmerican]

11. Indeed.

They seem to to working pretty hard to make this story go away.

[Quantess]

19. Of course. Which is why it was necessary to begin this early in the game.

The Obama campaign will work pretty hard to keep this alive. I get the sense they aren't going to back down, and will keep demanding an explanation from Romney, no matter how long it takes. The Obama side knows they have some damaging info but it will be a long drawn out fight to get Romney to finally answer to it.

[progressivebydesign]

14. the worst thing that happened to America is when the "journalists" are in the 1% n/t

[Scuba]

17. Few journalists are in the 1%. On the other hand, most of them work for the 1%.

[Tennessee Gal]

7. Make the story the point/counterpoint between the campaigns.

It's a lot easier and less time consuming than doing any actual investigative reporting to get to the truth.

With a few exceptions like David Corn, that is what is happening.

[Bluerthanblue]

13. no, it's a war of "worlds"-

the rich, entitled, "I answer to no one" Romney world- which like it or not is mostly white-

And the world where the real people live.

If those on the 'right' who are so incensed about the "fat cats" and "ceo's" and "corporate bailouts" can twist their minds around to a place where they can truly support Mitt Romney- the poster boy of CEOdom-

then I cannot help but believe that racism isn't the core issue- unconsious, unintended but just as real and just as ugly.

[fascisthunter]

15. come on.... you believe it's laziness? It the CORPORATE MEDIA

doing what it does to protect its interests.

[progressivebydesign]

16. What happened to the media?? They should be DEMANDING those tax returns!

But they're letting Mitt say "the voters have seen enough" with ONE tax return??? Really WaPo?? Would you let that slide from a Democrat??

[B Calm]

18. Sometimes the truth is NASTY. .