Romney unmasked: Top adviser undercuts his main argument

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Romney unmasked: Top adviser undercuts his main argument
By Greg Sargent


Last night, CNN aired a terrific segment that spent a solid eight minutes taking apart one of the core arguments at the heart of Mitt Romney’s case for the presidency. It looked at Romney’s ongoing claim that the “net” jobs lost on Obama’s watch prove his policies failed — even though that metric factors in huge job losses at the start of his term, before those policies took effect. And it also looked at the Romney camp’s insistence on a different standard for itself — that his record should be judged by the job gains later in his term.

That’s good, but it gets better.

On the segment, a top Romney adviser inadvertently admitted, as clearly as you could want, that the whole “net” job loss calculation is thoroughly bogus, undercutting Romney’s whole case.

Watch the whole thing (the video was clipped by the pro-Obama American Bridge), but the key moment comes at around the 3:10 mark:

Video @ link~

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Between this CNN segment and Michael Shear’s terrific New York Times piece yesterday, it looks as if the big news orgs are starting to get serious about getting to the bottom of this. One more, and we’ll have a trend!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/new-york-times-nails-mitt-romneys-dissembling/2012/06/05/gJQAeuSfGV_blog.html

New York Times nails Mitt Romney’s dissembling

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1. K&R! n/t

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2. Kicked and Bookmarked! Thanks so much! I'm sharing with everyone I know...

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3. Amazing how the rest of the "liberal" media

is totally silent on this, especially after the feeding frenzy on Bill Clinton and Cory Booker's remarks.