| Obama Campaign Comes Clean On Cancer Ad |
| Aug-10-2012 |
| Keywords: obama, romney, ad, lied, cancer ad, soptic |
After initially denying knowledge of the man in the controversial "cancer ad" an Obama spokeswoman confesses the campaign lied to the media.
Seizing on the moment, the Romney camp pounced on the confession.
"The Obama campaign has now admitted that it lied to the media and the American people in a disgraceful attempt to conceal their connection to this shameful smear," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said.
Williams was referring to the ad by a pro-Obama super PAC that implied Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in part responsible for the death of a laid off steel worker's wife.
Obama Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday "we don't have any knowledge of the story of the family."
Drawing criticism from some media outlets, Psaki reversed her position.
"No one is denying that he was in ... one of our campaign ads," she said, also acknowledging he participated in a campaign conference call back in May.
But that's about as far as the confession went, before she used the attention to criticism a Romney ad claiming the president is trying to gut welfare reform.
"There's been a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison here when we're comparing an ad that has not even run, by an outside group we have nothing to do with, with an ad that is the basis of Mitt Romney's campaign right now, that is a bald-face lie about the president's record on welfare," she said. "And I think that's frustrating to us because they're being compared at the same level."
Mitt Romney's campaign kept up the drumbeat of criticism on its rival, rolling out a fundraising email by the end of Thursday citing the "discredited, dishonest, despicable attack by President Obama's allies."
"What happened to the campaign of hope and change?" the fundraising email asked.
The message again said Obama's "top campaign advisers repeatedly lied" about the case. |
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