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by John Hayward –
\nThe despicable ad put together by pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA has disintegrated into the most noxious cloud of lies, with astonishing speed.\u00a0 Rarely have the waters of the political gutter washed away sewage so quickly.<\/p>\n
Astonishingly, all three of the broadcast \u201cnews\u201d networks managed to avoid mentioning yesterday\u2019s biggest political story.\u00a0 NewsBusters notes that NBC anchor Brian Williams droned on about \u201cboth sides getting personal\u201d\u2026 without bothering to mention that only one side was accusing the opposing candidate of murder.<\/em><\/p>\n But CNN tore the Priorities USA ad to shreds, with anchor Wolf Blitzer pronouncing it \u201cfull of falsehoods.\u201d\u00a0 Several points in the CNN report were raised at HUMAN EVENTS as soon as the anti-Romney ad appeared, including the tediously disingenuous<\/a> nature of the Joe Soptic story, which has already been exploited by the Obama campaign.\u00a0 Mitt Romney was involved with Bain Capital\u2019s initial investment in the company Soptic worked for, but he was long gone by the time it declared bankruptcy. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen Mitt Romney closed the plant I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their healthcare,\u201d Soptic says in the Priorities USA ad.\u00a0 \u201cA short time after that, my wife became ill.\u201d\u00a0 Not only did Mitt Romney have nothing to do with closing the plant in question, but it turns out<\/a> Soptic\u2019s wife died five years <\/strong>after the plant was closed.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, as the CNN report pointed out, Soptic\u2019s wife still had health insurance <\/strong>through her own employer, even after Soptic was laid off.<\/p>\n The most charitable explanation for this twisted attack on Romney is that Joe Soptic is a deeply distraught man who still isn\u2019t thinking clearly because of his grief, and the ghouls at Priorities USA are mercilessly exploiting him.\u00a0 The more credit you give Soptic for being in command of his mental faculties, the less charitable the explanation gets.<\/p>\n Now, Priorities USA is a Super PAC, which allowed the Obama campaign some initial wiggle room for deniability.\u00a0 However, Obama surrogates were given numerous opportunities over the past two days to denounce the ad, and have consistently refused to do so.\u00a0 (The President himself no longer takes questions from reporters.)<\/p>\n Even worse than refusing to denounce the ad, Obama\u2019s people have taken to peddling the most hilariously transparent lies about it.\u00a0 Senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs claimed \u201cI certainly don\u2019t know the specifics of this man\u2019s case\u201d on an MSNBC roundtable Wednesday morning.\u00a0 He even claimed he hadn\u2019t seen the ad, but had read \u201csome write-ups about it\u201d \u2013 which seems like the sort of thing that should be listed on his letter of resignation as a clearly incompetent \u201csenior campaign adviser.\u201d\u00a0 To their credit, the MSNBC crew promptly played the one-minute-long ad for Gibbs, then grilled him like a Chick-fil-A sandwich when he consistently refused to denounce it.<\/p>\n Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter short-circuited and began spitting the word \u201cfacts\u201d repeatedly when asked about the ad by John Berman of CNN: \u201cWell John, here are the facts. I don\u2019t know the facts about when Mr. Soptic\u2019s wife got sick, or the facts about his health insurance, but here\u2019s what I do know. That Mitt Romney personally handled the deal to take over GS Steel and he personally handled some of the decisions made to load that company up with debt so much that it went underwater.\u00a0 It went bankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n Jen Psaki of the Obama campaign told CNN that \u201cWe have no involvement with any ads that are done by Priorities USA, we don\u2019t have any knowledge of the story of the family.\u201d\u00a0 The former is true as a matter of law, because candidates don\u2019t directly control their Super PACs, but as Newt Gingrich demonstrated during the Republican primary season, they can denounce statements made by those PACs.\u00a0 It would be rather silly if they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n But the protestations of ignorance about Soptic made by Psaki, Cutter, and Gibbs are pure bunk.\u00a0 The Obama campaign \u2013 not <\/em>a Super PAC \u2013 has prominently featured Soptic in advertisements before.\u00a0 In one of those ads, Soptic called Mitt Romney a \u201cvampire.\u201d\u00a0 You\u2019d think all these high-paid campaign consultants would remember something like that, especially since it got them in trouble with several prominent Democrats who weren\u2019t willing to sign onto Obama\u2019s War on Capitalism, including Newark mayor Cory Booker.<\/p>\n And if any of these Obama liars needs a little refresher about their campaign\u2019s long-standing relationship with Joe Soptic, they could always check out his biography<\/a> on Obama\u2019s official campaign website.<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s even got his picture, along with this lovely quote: \u201cWhen you look at what Mitt Romney did in places like GST Steel, you can tell he is only worried about one group of people \u2013 and that\u2019s the people like him, people at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n It seems like only yesterday that Obama was complaining about outside groups spending tons of money to run negative ads against him.\u00a0 Does anyone <\/em>associated with the Obama campaign, including the President himself, retain a shred of character or integrity?\u00a0 Just enough to unambiguously state, without any nasty little caveats, that accusing Mitt Romney of killing Joe Soptic\u2019s wife is wrong?<\/p>\n