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Related: About this forumRomney unmasked: Top adviser undercuts his main argument
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-unmasked-top-adviser-undercuts-his-whole-argument/2012/06/06/gJQAws5lIV_blog.htmlRomney 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 Romneys case for the presidency. It looked at Romneys ongoing claim that the net jobs lost on Obamas 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 camps insistence on a different standard for itself that his record should be judged by the job gains later in his term.
Thats 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 Romneys 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 Shears 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 well 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 Romneys dissembling
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Romney unmasked: Top adviser undercuts his main argument (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2012
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Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2012
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beac
(9,992 posts)1. K&R! n/t
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)2. Kicked and Bookmarked! Thanks so much! I'm sharing with everyone I know...
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(2,280 posts)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.