CNN fact checks Obama Ad that claims Romney responsible for death of steel worker’s wife/ yeah, not so much

I thought we pretty much disassembled this ad yesterday with the Kimberly Strassel article over at the Wall Street Journal which you can find here. But last night on CNN’s The Situation Room, their staff went a step further, making this the most despicable ad so far in this campaign. But wait my little mobsters, there is so much more time for the Obama campaign to stoop even lower.

The ad was produced and paid for by Obama superpac run by former WH staffer Bill Burton, Priorities USA . First, a quick scan of the straws so article from 3 months ago. As she points out 1st Romney wasn’t even at main when the company shut down. 2nd 2nd, as we learn the Wall Street Journal Bain capital actually kept the company alive for almost a decade when it normally would’ve been shut down.

In 2001 it would become one of 31 steel companies that went bankrupt from 1993 to 2003. (Mr. Romney left Bain in 1999.) The steel crash was the economic drama du jour, with Congress railing about “dumping.”

At the time, GST’s union blamed the company’s bankruptcy on the political class, for failing to hamstring imports. “We can’t compete against the steel imports that are being sold under cost,” said the president of GST’s union in 2001. “Our pleas fell on deaf ears in the political arena.” The Bush administration would ultimately slap on giant tariffs.

The bankruptcies were led by unionized companies that, like airlines and textiles and Detroit, had negotiated pay and benefits that helped drive their employers under. GST’s pension benefits would get passed on to the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which in 2002 received $7.5 billion in claims from the steel industry alone. The PBGC covered GST’s basic pension payouts

But its CNN that dug even deeper that discovered that the woman who passed not only had health insurance after the steel mill went out of business but also she passed a good 7 years after Romney left Bain. Not exactly the narrative that the Obama campaign was looking for. Watch the whole thing my little mobsters it is a maze in journalism for change from CNN.

httpv://youtu.be/WKslHY9SqFI

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

10 Comments

  1. JBS on August 8, 2012 at 8:34 am

    This is classic misdirection. The Obama reelection people don’t want anyone focusing on the president’s dismal record, asking questions about his college transcripts (is he really a foreign national who insinuated himself into American life?), talking about the millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans, or listening to Romney’s message.
    ?
    The DNC’s Soptic ad is pure b.s. Lies, distortions and misrepresentations. Which is also the definition of Harry Reid.



  2. phil on August 8, 2012 at 8:34 am

    Is there a change in the wind in the ‘drive by media’?? Throwing Zero under his own Canadian bus?



  3. Tim-in-Alabama on August 8, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    The husband is responsible for his wife’s death for not taking care of her. He should be ashamed. He is the typical Democrat.



    • ricbee on August 8, 2012 at 11:27 pm

      looking for someone to blame.



  4. Dimsdale on August 8, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    OBAMALONEY!!? Priceless!



  5. ricbee on August 8, 2012 at 11:29 pm

    I don’t know how this guy can live with himself after that lying ad-his poor wife must have rolled over in her grave. Must have been plenty of filthy lucre for him.



    • Dimsdale on August 9, 2012 at 11:56 am

      Last time I looked, liberals have no shame.



  6. Dimsdale on August 9, 2012 at 11:58 am

    I think CNN has realized that simply reporting the liberal Democrat talking points is killing their network.? It is good to see them try to get back to real investigative journalism.? Probably won’t last though.



  7. Lynn on August 10, 2012 at 7:51 am

    I didn’t think my opinion of President Obama’s team could sink any lower. I was wrong.



    • Dimsdale on August 10, 2012 at 6:56 pm

      The campaign is still young!? 😉



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