Obama campaign denies knowing story of man in Super PAC cancer ad but hosted May conference call during which he told them the same story

[Pepper]

Michelle Malkin:

Obama campaign denies knowing story of man in Super PAC cancer ad but hosted May conference call during which he told them the same story

 

Obama campaign denies knowing story of man in Super PAC cancer ad but hosted May conference call during which he told them the same story

 

By Doug Powers • August 8, 2012 05:05 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

 

They’re either lying or have very short memories. You decide:

 

When President Obama’s aides said they weren’t familiar with former Missouri steelworker Joe Soptic’s life story, all they had to do was check their own campaign archives.

 

Soptic, laid off from Bain Capital-owned GST Steel, stars in a Priorities USA Action spot this week in which he tells of how his wife died without health insurance after he lost his job. Soptic also appeared, wearing what appears to be an identical shirt, in a May television ad for the Obama campaign.

 

Asked about the Priorities spot on MSNBC Wednesday morning, Robert Gibbs said he doesn’t “know the specifics” while Stephanie Cutter said on CNN: “I don’t know the facts about when Mr. Soptic’s wife got sick or the facts about his health insurance.”

 

And Jen Psaki told reporters on Air Force One that “we don’t have any knowledge of the story of the family,” according to Yahoo! News.

 

But Cutter hosted an Obama campaign conference call in May in which Soptic told reporters the very story featured in the Priorities spot.

 

Both the campaign and the Priorities USA Action said there was no coordination about Soptic’s appearances. In the campaign’s ad, Soptic speaks only about the plant. In the Priorities spot, he tells the personal story he relayed during the Obama campaign conference call.

 

“We have no idea when Priorities shot their spot,” an Obama campaign official said. “We’re not allowed to coordinate with them – but we can tell you it wasn’t when we shot ours.”

 

 

Two video clips at Michelle Malkin link.

 

[pollyannaish]

Wait a second.

 

Are these people ever responsible for anything?

[Pepper]

They couldn't even do this as a job

[Pepper]

@pollyannaish

 

Obama campaign aide accused of lying over anti-Romney ad, ties to steelworker

 

 

I feel bad for Mr. Septic. He's been taken for a ride.

[Pepper]

CNN: Wife of steelworker in new Obama Super PAC ad still had job and health insurance after he lost his

 

 

Obama’s sleaziest ad yet: Romney kinda sorta killed a man’s wife by closing down his steel plant

 

Conference call here

 

Video: Obama campaign now pretending it didn’t know details of steelworker’s story — after featuring him in two ads

[Pepper]

@pollyannaish

 

pretty good take here from Pajamas Media by Bryan Preston

 

Why Team Obama Ran with the Dishonest ‘Mitt Killed My Wife!’ Ad

 

The ad is out there. The uninformed are seeing it in their facebook feeds, twinned up with the latest from MoveOn or whichever smear group is running in parallel today. People will see the ad, and most of them will not see the CNN, PolitiFact or Washington Post fact-checks that declare the ad a total fraud. Out in the wild, the ad is intended do its job of toxifying Romney just enough to peel off a few of his voters and ramp up hate for him among Obama’s voters. That’s the point of the ad, not to tell anything that’s true, but just to stir the pot, sully Romney and depress his potential vote.

 

some good comments too.