Claiming you created 100,000 jobs when there is no clear evidence of it or calling President Obama a "Socialist" who apologizes for America is pretty slimy, but telling an outright lie about legislation like the Affordable Care Act is going to catch up with Mitt Romney. Although his embarrassing quotes are doing a pretty good job of framing him already, the Romney campaign can't spin their way out of these deliberate statements that go beyond distorting the truth and start inventing it.
It probably got lost in the New Hampshire Primary buzz on Monday night etc. but campaign spokesman Russ Schriefer on CNN's "OutFront" was interviewed by Erin Burnett where he defended Mitt saying "I like firing people who provide services to me" he impressively changed the subject by pivoting to the importance of people having choices in the marketplace....and that's where he immediately lit his Pants on Fire:
Schriefer: "The ability to tell your insurance company you're not doing the job for me, that we want a new insurance company, is a good thing. The difference is that under Obamacare you wont be able to fire your insurance company There will be one insurance company and it will be the government."
Burnett: "I understand what you're saying."
VIDEO: http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/...
So, this basically sums up everything wrong with politics and MSM journalism these days in one exchange.
First, Schriefer LIED by saying the Affordable Care Act had more than a "public option" but was also SINGLE-PAYER where the government is the only insurance provider....most progressives would be dancing in the streets!
But regardless, lying about legislative baby steps toward government action, like calling people "socialist" or policies "socialism" is exactly why our government is so disfunctional right now.
Ironically, the only option Americans will really have is the PRIVATE insurance companies (and probably with only ONE choice depending on their employer etc).
Meanwhile, Erin Burnett, who has shown her colors as a Wall Street-sympathizing non-journalist in the past, is so focused on intake of the Romney-approved Talking Points that she doesn't bother to process that what Schriefer said was the most provable lie known to Man. That might be a complement though....because otherwise she is either ignorant or not interested in reporting facts. Would Tim Russert ever allow such a statement go by un-corrected?
This episode is an amazing example of how the MSM is growingly complicit in reporting the "Talking Points" but no longer the "News" (or God forbid, the "Truth") in our 21st Century culture.
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