Again? Second Time in Two Days Washington Post Hammers Team Obama for False Claims
- Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:22pm by
Becket Adams
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When the Washington Post (the Washington Post!) awarded the Obama campaign four Pinocchios for its most recent anti-Romney ad, we were surprised that they published the following:
On just about every level, this ad is misleading, unfair and untrue, from the use of ‘corporate raider’ to its examples of alleged outsourcing. Simply repeating the same debunked claims won’t make them any more correct.
But maybe we spoke too soon.
See, although Glenn Kessler’s strong criticism of Obama’s “corporate Raider” ad was somewhat unexpected, the fact this is the the second day in a row that the newspaper has taken on, dismantled, and left for dead the talking points of Team Obama is even more surprising.
This time, the usually left-leaning newspaper goes after White House senior adviser David Plouffe.
“There was an amazing article the other day, I believe it was in the Wall Street Journal, where Republicans in Congress openly were saying, ‘we’re not going to do anything until the election on the economy, because we want to help Mitt Romney,’” Plouffe said during an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
Watch Plouffe explain how the Republicans are ruining everything at the 04:47 mark:
“With an economy that needs help right now, with the middle class that’s struggling, it’s an amazing thing,” he added. “For all of this talk about government, for every private-sector job created in Massachusetts by Governor Romney, six public sector jobs.”
The biggest problem with Plouffe’s claim is that neither the WaPo’s Josh Hicks nor The Blaze could find any article from the Wall Street Journal where Republicans are quoted as saying they’re purposely sabotaging the economy. The closest thing you can get, as Hicks notes, is an article titled “Republicans See Advantages in Go-Slow Approach on Bills” with the subhead “GOP Lawmakers Banking on Election Gains; Democrats also resist compromise.”
“Right away, this suggests the article is not what the White House adviser implied. Sure enough, the piece says Republicans are ‘bullish about Mr. Romney winning and the GOP making gains in the Senate,’ and that “they are wary of cutting deals that would curb the options of more conservative leadership that could be in place next year,” Hick writes.
“In other words, GOP lawmakers don’t see much sense in making deals with Democrats when they might have a lot more power after the election,” he adds. “The article says nothing about Republicans trying to sabotage the Obama administration with inaction on the economy in order to help Romney’s prospects.”
Regarding Plouffe’s obviously false claim, Team Obama issued the following statement:
Instead of taking action on the economy and passing the President’s American Jobs Act now, congressional Republicans continue to drag their feet and play politics, though their own candidate Romney has no plan on jobs.
Just like David Plouffe said, we have an economy that needs help right now, with a middle class that’s struggling. Republicans should set the politics aside and do what’s in the best interest of the country.
How does Hicks size up the entire situation?
“Plouffe referred to an ‘amazing article’ that supposedly proved that Republicans have talked openly about improving Romney’s chances in the election by doing nothing on the economy. But the article actually explained that GOP lawmakers prefer to postpone any deal making until after the election because they’re feeling bullish about their chances,” Hicks writes.
“That is no different than what Democrats have done in the past,” he adds.
Therefore, for the second time in two days, the Obama campaign has earned itself a big, fat dunce cap in the form of four Pinocchios.
But there’s more! Click here to read what else the WaPo refutes.
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Comments (126)
taxwarrior
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:34pmWhen is the Washington Post going to start looking into Fast and Furious. They need a Woodward and Bernstein to start looking for a whistleblower.
Report Post »BoliverBBucklenutz
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:28pmYEAH!! What he said.
Report Post »VotersOfNY
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 7:29pmWhen is someone going to brinhg up Holder’s involvement with operation PATCON in 1995? He is accused of doing the exact same thing as Fast & Furious, except with explosives instead of guns. The explosives went missing as well, explosives that were used in OKLA bombing killing 168 people.
I don‘t know if it’s true but it’s all over the Internet. Google ‘PATCON and Eric Holder’ to see tons of articles.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 12:07amThe rats are jumping ship,but don’t let them fool you, they are still rats
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:20amJust like that darling Sarah Palin said, “You can put lipstick on a PIG and it’s still a PIG.
These people lie, shuffle the cards and lie with a different hand. Course, I look for the worst in all liars when you expect it from their ilk. Fool me once………………….ya know!
Even Pelosi sticks her foot in the manure. Because she’s a wicked person, people were afraid to ever cross her, but now it‘s all X’s from those in the know. She has no power and no one believes her anyway. She is the stupidiest thing around. Love Gowdy!
Report Post »Reason365
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:34amBHO has perfected the lie theory. If you tell a lie long enough, people will start to believe it. As he breathes, he lies. It’s that easy for him. But watch how he will lie to cover even something larger. Wait and see if people get outraged the prez joined a socialist group called the new party in 1996. That story will be hidden while he spins his crap.
Report Post »bluecamaro21
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:57amBoth Waco and Ruby Ridge are now known to have been PATCON-inspired, Department of Justice plots.
Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, Holder instructed FBI agents to recover from Terry Nichols any remainder of the explosives the Bureau had provided him and McVeigh. To the chagrin of Eric Holder, the explosives were later discovered by another agency, complete with the fingerprints of Nichols, McVeigh, and two FBI agents. Holder had reportedly offered Nichols respite from the death penalty for his cooperation in recovering the explosives. Obviously, the Deputy Attorney General considered covering up his criminal complicity in the bombing a good deed eminently worth sparing Nichols his just punishment for the murders of 168 innocent Americans.
Jesse Trentadue accidentally came across PATCON while investigating the murder of his brother Kenneth at the hands of the Clinton Department of Justice. An FBI informant familiar with the Oklahoma City bombing story, Kenneth was found hanged in his cell after having been jailed by the FBI. Though an official FBI report had listed Kenneth as a suicide, it was obvious that he had been severely beaten and had his throat cut.
Upon Jesse taking the federal government to court, a federal judge ruled that the FBI had not only lied about Kenneth Trentadue’s death, the Bureau was also found guilty of having destroyed evidence concerning the case. In 2001 the Trentadue family was awarded $1.1 million, $250,000 of which remain
Report Post »hwyllie
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 12:27pmi don’t think there are any more investigative reporters. just people that collect press releases and regurgitate them. some don’t even bother to change the words. makes me wonder why you have to go to college to be a journalist. just fill the press room with parrots. just put down some ‘news’paper first. there are a few exceptions but not enough. you have to love how they’re trying to tie fast and furious to Bush now, lol… it’s just too much. operation wide receiver actually tagged the 300 weapons and retrieved them. it also had the advantage of not resulting in any deaths. but I’m sure we have not heard the last of this non existent tie between the two.
Report Post »bdsconserv
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:41pmi can’t stand it! at what point are these idiots going to be fed up with lying for this administration?
Report Post »oantixo
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 1:28amI honestly don’t understand how all of these lies are not being addressed on every news outlet in the United States? Why aren’t mainstream media informing the nation? if you notice in most interviews with anyone in the Obama administration, they all tend to stumble over there words, seem very nervous and can’t answer simple questions, they just avoid answering them.. How in Gods green earth can anyone trust and have faith in this administration? You’ve really got to be ignorant to not see their true colors.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 2:54pmAll the WP has to do is set aside their Dem bias, and pretend Barry is a Republican, like Nixon. BOY would we see stories then! Is the National Inquirer still around? They broke the last Dem Scandal! Tells me how far the media has sunk!
Report Post »lakota6020
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:30pmI don’t trust them, watch the other hand. Something must be up.
Report Post »happ77
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:41pmAmen
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 1:07amPlouffee and Debbiee are sharing notes, they would make a
good couple.. haven’t seen deb in a while, did he replace her ??
anyway this jerk is a snake in the grass too.. ask him a question
and they go right in to BLAME MODE..they don’t have answers.
Romney did this and The Republicans did that….GOOD GAWD..
Like Pelosi…WOW !!!!! I HOPE she keeps it up for the next few
Report Post »Weeks,….Man, the comments she made were “Classic Pelosi”
Great Week for Team Obama…Ha, Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,!!!!!!!
She is always good for a laugh..I try not to miss her Dribble, I now
know where she hangs , they have a Dungeon in the Capital
basement……her own words folks..She was going to lockup Rove..
fixer
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 7:18pmmaybe they figured out that their circulation goes up every time they speak the truth instead of following king obummer’s lead.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:17pmHe sounds like he male version of “debbie wasserman schultz”.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 5:21pmYou mean Debbie is not a man?
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 7:01pmAnother poster referred to her as; “Debbie Was-a-Man Schultz” so I’m aaaallll confused….
Report Post »sophillyjimmy
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:16pmRick I won’t volunter to find out, how about you, but beware, you might get a hand full of meat or your hand will smells like you just ended an episode of Deadliest Catch.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:04pmDebbie needs Nasal surgery very badly,or maybe she had bad nasal surgery. Either way,she is unbearable to listen to! Nails on a chalkboard!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:12pmWapo must have something against caramel colored Marxists.Finally they’re doing their job,four years late but who’s counting.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:24pmThe WaPo should get the Rip Van Winkle award.
Report Post »mils
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:26pmwhere is “wiki leaks’ when we need them….bet there is so much going on behind the scenes that is not only illegal but childish and a myriad of other things…
i am sick and tired of all the bs coming from the office of the president..an office that we should have our full support.
obama needs to tell the whole story as to why the “dream act’ was rejected..
Report Post ».the whole story..not the edited edition he’s touting..
MCDAVE
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 12:12amDon’t let these communists journalist fool you ,two steps forward ,one step back..they won;t change .
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:10pmI swear we have nothing but sociopaths in this administration.. who lie over and over and over again!! Thanks Washington Post for telling the truth!
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:46pmIn good time the left will be out of power and they see it so now it’s time to start sucking up.
Report Post »ladoll
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 12:04pmThat’s a rare thing that you can actually THANK WAPO for anything! I don’t look for many more opportunities to do so.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 2:06pmNewspapers, magazines, etc. are so liberal I can’t stand them. Never, never bought those cheap tabloids at the grocery store. You can read the stupid crap on the outside while waiting and know you’d never spend good money for made-up stuff about the stupid movie industry people. It’s good for a laugh..
Report Post »Our local newspaper has become such a rag, I finally cancelled it a few years ago. Some local lib idiots write columns and letters to editor and I couldn’t take it. One guy died who wrote such liberal demeaning articles, and I still won’t take the paper until a few more follow his example or just quit.
In fact, so many in our town have cancelled the paper, it’s about 1/2 the size it was 4-5 years ago. That tells you something, we all agree, it’s a rag.
TMLR
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:49pmNo Responsiblity
Report Post »No Accountability
No Transparency
NoBama!
lassiegirldawn
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:48pmI think we should have a law where if a politician lies they are fined, and after three known lies, they have to step down. This would clear the way to have honest people in government. Something has to be done about the spinning and lying.
Report Post »bobbiejean
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 3:29am@LassieGirlDawn, Good suggestion re: the lies—3 strikes and you’re out. Do you
Report Post »think it will ever get through Congress? Not while any there can draw breath.
GeorgieJo
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:38pmHOW do these people SLEEP?
Report Post »Axelrod and his minions?
Axelrods PR firm was paid to PROMOTE Obummercare?
Monica Crowleys new book—WHAT the BLEEP HAPPENED? is VERY informative.
This Pluffy guy is just another DebbyWasspeeSchutlzee but he wears a suit.
OMG the LIES
OMG 2012
wakewiseone
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:36pmthe washington post………one of the MOST liberal rags in the nation…………
wow………..and they re dinging obama for telling lies. good for them. its about time some of this sh it caught up with obama.
ps……….the pinocchios should be black, in keeping with ethnic correctness of the one receiving the ding(s).
and final ps………..it must really be bad if the post is taking obama on. i thought they were in LUV with him.
Report Post »old blacksmith
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:59pm‘spect more to come. msm bailing on obama – he’s unelectable.
i worry he’ll bail out at the convention – “i said if i couldn’t fix it one one term…… bush’s economy far worse than i expected………. as a man of my word i cannot accept the nomination”.
he’ll throw his support to hillary (it’s what spookey would want). many traditional dems long to get “their party” back, many independents fondly remember the clinton years. she’d be much tougher than barry in the general.
then she pardons barry and his merry crew for all…… his supreme nominations stand, his records remain sealed, his legislation & edicts remain intact, fast & furious and classified leaks disappear – and hillary know what to do with healthcare.
beware HILLARY 2012 !!!!!!!
Report Post »infortheride
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:00pmJust in, the current administration has just deemed the Washington Post as number one on the president’s Drone hit list.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:21pmDo you people realize, that if it wasn’t for talk radio and the Internet, we would be in the dark on just about everything, no wonder the democrats held the house from the fifties til the nineties…good grief….
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:30pmGood point.
Report Post »wakewiseone
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:37pmand thank goodness al gore invented the internet so information and news could be shared around the country.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:22pmTrue………… the internet and radio is killing them.
Report Post »GOVERMENTBLOWS
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:17pmWashington Post is RACIST…….. : )
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:09pmI don’t know how to take this… all I know is, I have NEVER known an honest Communist.
Report Post »boyd9
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 12:31pmMarx was actually an honest Communist/Marxist. He actually knew towards the end of his life, and so stated, that the revolution he was leading would result in two classes, not the classless utopia he genuinely wanted. The ruling class or government bureaucrats are necessary to enforce the rules and redistribute the wealth. When he stated that the Marxists should become the ruling class, many of his true believing followers turned on him. Marx was correct though, if government power is necessary to redistribute wealth then the minute the government exercises its power, a ruling class is created. Only a totally voluntary system like the one practiced by the Amish can create the classless society envisioned by Marx. That is why most modern Communists/Marxists/Socialists like President Obama have to lie. They know they will end up destroying the middle class and only two classes will remain, the government class and the rest of us who depend on the government for our monthly allowance but they have to continually tell the lie that they are FOR the middle class, what is happening now in Europe should be enough to expose the lie. The middle class is being destroyed in European countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, and what will be left once they tax the wealthy out of existence to support their bloated governments? The bureaucrats in one class and everyone else in the other. Socialist ideology is based or founded on a lie so that lie and other lies become necessary.
Report Post »simplygilly
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:07pmUnfortunately, most of the people who will see POTUS ads do not read WPost and are politically ignorant. POTUS et all are smart enough to know they can say anything, no matter how deceptive, misleading, or outright false, and it will be believed en mass. So much for political “truth in advertising”
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:06pmThey just keep forgetting how easy it is now to find the lies. Unless they turn off our phones and internet, they get found fast, and come back to them in spades. Poor, poor babies.
Report Post »madvlad
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 3:09pmYou make a chilling point. In 1991, the Old Guards in the Soviet Union tried a putsch against Gorbachev and cut all the phone lines, but forgot the fledgling internet. Word got out and they were foiled. Obama won’t make that mistake.
Report Post »Athinkerinaseaoflibs
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:57pmThis is really cool. The liberals eating their own. All I have to say is–“Would you like some A1 with that or would you rather Grey Poupon?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:58pmTHINKER?
Report Post »Are you Monica Crowley?
You just quoted her new book.
LMAO
OMG 2012
Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:56pmMaybe a few left leaning journalists are getting a little embarrassed at how obvious it is to the entire nation, that they are not doing their jobs anymore…..they are all leftist propagandists, state run media.
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:23pmI hope to God, you are right. ‘These’ journalists have no shame. The word ‘journalist’, is a writer and keeper of the ‘truth’. Who whould keep a journal of anything but the truth? It doesn’t fit the word.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:53pmNoBama has nothing to show for his 3.5 years so all he has is attacks on his opponents. When I see someone attacking someone else I immediately know that the attacker is the weak party. So be it in this desperate instance, too. Can you even begin to fathom 4 more years of this?? NoBama is sending everyone forward with lies hoping anything will stick. 4 years ago, this worked, but the sleeping giant awoke.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »APPAULED
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:38pmI agree. Thats why the Koch brothers are spending millions on attack ads. Republicans Suck!
Report Post »Good luck with your Medicare voucher that will go down each yr until it is non-existent.
blackyb
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:50pmThese people are just now bothering to speak up? Well, they want something.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:49pmThis is the lyingest, deceivvingest, most hipocritical administration that has ever been in the White house. These people are so evil, they, including nanci pelosi and Jarrett should be, if they are not smelling like sulpher fumes.
Report Post »dblaess
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:38pmCan hardly wait to see how the trolls on this site spin this. Perhaps the usual false information put out by this administration might also get a second look rather than a blind repeat in the press.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:55pmLOL… yes indeed… it is going to be “interesting” to say the least to see the troll juices boil… lol….
Stand Strong America
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:34pmLies .. that is all this regime has … they can’t tell the truth .. they would be gone.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:34pmthompson tiwns said it best LIES LIES LIES theyre gonna get you…IMPEACH THE NON AMERICAN SOCIALIST NOW END THE PSUDEO DICTATORSHIOP THAT IS EVITA OBAMA TAX N SPEECH
Report Post »justangry
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:31pmHmmm, I guess the CFR globalists are more interested in a fascist world government over a commie one.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:29pmWow!! So, when is Hillary declaring?
Report Post »old blacksmith
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:01pmat the convention, as soon as barry steps aside.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:29pmMaybe… Bankruptcy put the Fear of God in them?
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