{"id":14899,"date":"2012-08-08T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:19:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:19:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:19:01","slug":"cnn_debunks_romney_killed_my_wife_ad_regime_stands_by_it_romney_camp_flubs_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/08\/cnn_debunks_romney_killed_my_wife_ad_regime_stands_by_it_romney_camp_flubs_it\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Debunks “Romney Killed My Wife” Ad; Regime Stands By It, Romney Camp Flubs It"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s the CNN sound bite. This is from The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer. Brianna Keilar reported this about that ad that Romney killed the guy\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

KEILAR: In 1999, Mitt Romney leaves Bain for the Salt Lake Olympics, stopping day-to-day oversight of the company, but remaining CEO. In 2001, Joe Soptic loses his job when Bain closes the plant. His wife still has insurance, though, from her employer, Saver\u2019s Thrift Store. A year later, Romney formally leaves Bain, and it\u2019s that year, 2002 or perhaps 2003, Soptic tells CNN, that his wife leaves her job because of an injury. That\u2019s when she became uninsured without fallback insurance from her husband. A few years later, in 2006, she goes to the hospital, is diagnosed with cancer, and dies just days later.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Even this is a crock, though. He left Bain in 1999. She tries to leave the impression that Romney was at Bain through 2002. He was not. He left in 1999. The point is, Brianna Keilar found out this woman had health insurance. Remember my question yesterday. You remember it, Snerdley? Let\u2019s do the next sound bite, because it\u2019s still the same show. This is Obama press secretary Jennifer Psaki, and Wolf said, “You want to associate or disassociate yourself with this pro-Obama super PAC ad?”<\/p>\n

PSAKI: Wolf, we have nothing to do with the ad. We\u2019re focused on our race. We\u2019re focused on going to Colorado tomorrow, and, uhh, that\u2019s where we\u2019re at from the campaign side. We can\u2019t speak to the super PAC ads. We don\u2019t have anything to do with them. Uh, so I don\u2019t have anything further on the super PAC ads.<\/line><\/p>\n

WOLF: Because it is pretty — pretty serious here when … You\u2019re not doing it.<\/p>\n

PSAKI: Right!<\/p>\n

WOLF: But the super PAC, uh, is making this allegation that Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of this woman when that\u2019s simply not true.<\/p>\n

PSAKI: Well, Wolf, I… You know, I didn\u2019t… I wasn\u2019t involved with making the ad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I gotta run, take a break here. We\u2019ll be back, but you heard it. They won\u2019t distance themselves. We\u2019ll be right back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Wolf Blitzer says to Jennifer Psaki, “It\u2019s pretty serious what you\u2019re doing here. You\u2019re saying that Romney\u2019s responsible for the death of this woman. It\u2019s simply not true.” <\/p>\n

(imitating Psaki) “No, no, no, Wolf, I wasn\u2019t involved in making that ad. I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s a case. Besides, Wolf, where are you? We\u2019ve moved on. Bain Capital founded with money from the death squads. Haven\u2019t you heard that, Wolf? We need to get you back on track.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: CNN is running a fact-check in a random act of journalism and telling everybody. Of course, it was on CNN; nobody heard it. They had another 20-year low in ratings in the month of July. It\u2019s already August. Larry King, God love him. When he hosted his show, before it faded away and he had to leave, at his peak, you could count on Larry King for 1.5 million viewers a night. And in the cable universe, that was enough. That was okay. This Piers Morgan guy in July drew around 300,000. The bottom is falling out. And that\u2019s where all of this fact-checking took place on Obama ad, where it was revealed to be an utter lie.<\/p>\n

So we repeat it to bring it to a larger audience.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna do it again.<\/p>\n