CNN: Wife of steelworker in new Obama Super PAC ad still had job and health insurance after he lost his
posted at 9:20 pm on August 7, 2012 by Allahpundit
I wonder if Bill Burton and crew knew about this and greenlit the smear
anyway or if they didn’t care enough to even find out. Why would they?
The point of calling Romney a murderer is to keep him on the defensive;
the more ridiculous the charge is, the more media/online oxygen it sucks
up and the less air there is for Mitt’s own attacks on O to breathe.
They tried a straightforward offensive against Romney’s complex private
equity record a few months ago but the results were inconclusive. Now
they’re trying again with a bolder, simpler narrative: Romney’s layoffs
literally killed people. If you’re a low-information voter who pays
attention to this stuff in bits and pieces, a story you’re
half-listening to about a rich guy and a steelworker and a plant closing
and a young wife tragically dying from cancer sounds really bad, even if it’s a gross smear. In fact, the grosser the smear, the more compelling the half-listened-to story seems. Right, Harry?
Question: Knowing what we know now about the timeline of all this,
what’s left of the accusation in the original smear ad? What is it,
precisely, that Bain is being faulted for doing or not doing? They
shouldn’t have closed down the plant because … it was unfair to expect
the workers who were laid off to ever find new jobs with insurance? It
was negligent not to predict that some workers’ wives might get laid off
too and wouldn’t find a new job for years before they became
ill? There appears to be no actual policy or business critique here.
It’s just a string of events spread over five whole years, with certain
key data omitted, and you’re supposed to infer causation without really
being told why or how. This is what the Unicorn Prince has come to after
promising four years ago to heal America or whatever. Perfect.
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