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Obama to media: Romney’s whole campaign is based on lies
(all emphases my own)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/obama-to-media-romneys-whole-campaign-is-based-on-lies/2012/08/20/dcd7f1d4-eaed-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_blog.html
In a surprise appearance before reporters at the White House just now, Obama made a striking, if perhaps long overdue, charge: He pushed back on GOP claims hes running a dirty campaign by arguing that Romneys entire campaign is based on flat out lies.
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"Now, in contrast, youve got Governor Romney creating as a centerpiece of his campaign this notion that were taking work requirement out of welfare. Which every single person here whos looked at it says, its patently false...
Everybody whos looked at this says what Governor Romney is saying is absolutely wrong. Not only are his Super PACs running millions of dollars worth of ads making this claim; Governor Romney himself is approving this and saying it on the stump. So the contrast I think is pretty stark. They can run the campaign that theyw ant; but the truth of the matter is, you cant just make stuff up. Thats one thing you learn as president of the United States. You get called into account.
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Its true that there's serious truth-stretching on both sides. Ive said that the Priorities USA ad suggesting Bain is to blame for the steelworkers wife goes too far. I agreed that the Obama ad labeling him as an outsourcer in chief was false. (The Obama camp has since tweaked his ads to make the language more defensible, arguing that Romneys companies were called pioneers in outsourcing.) I thought it was unfair and misleading to quote Romney out of context this way: I like being able to fire people. I dismissed the present relevance of the story about Romneys prep school bullying, which Dems pushed hard for days.
[font size="+1"]But it remains the case that we are seeing nothing from the Obama side thats anything like what Romney is attempting. [/font] Romney right now is premising one of the central arguments of his whole campaign on a complete lie. The notion that Obama gutted the work requirement in welfare reform has been debunked again and again by independent fact checkers and by the president who signed the law Obama supposedly gutted (see Clinton, Bill).
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[font size="+1"]The folks working at the big news organizations know Romney is lying with abandon. What should they do about it? Im sympathetic to political journalists its not easy to keep up with all the falsehoods, and at a certain point, the same lie told again and again loses its news value. But perhaps Obamas comments today will prompt at least a bit of media discussion about what it means that one candidate yes, far more than the other is running a campaign of such epic dishonesty.[/font]
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Obama to media: Romney’s whole campaign is based on lies (Original Post)
Bill USA
Aug 2012
OP
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)1. Yes ...
But perhaps Obamas comments today will prompt at least a bit of media discussion about what it means that one candidate yes, far more than the other is running a campaign of such epic dishonesty.
But doesn't the media have to be fair and balanced?
I mean, when the ref calls a foul or a penalty on one side, don't they have to invent, then, call a foul or penalty on the other side?