[Zakeet]

Obama Super PAC Chief Bill Burton: “What Fact In That (Cancer) Ad Is Wrong? Wolf Blitzer: You’re Joking, Right?…

From this:

BLITZER: It’s inaccurate, it’s not responsible, it’s misleading–you’re still going to go ahead and play it.

BURTON: Well, Wolf, just like we just talked about: What this ad does is tell the story of one guy and the impact that Mitt Romney had on him.

BLITZER: It’s misleading to tell–

BURTON: Well, this is your opinion. But, but–

BLITZER: Most independent fact-checkers, and we’re independent–

BURTON: What fact in that ad is wrong?

BLITZER: The impression that you get that he killed her.

BURTON: So you’re saying that that’s an impression.

BLITZER: Anyone who watches that 60-second ad comes away and says, “Mitt Romney’s responsible, at least indirectly, for this lovely woman’s death.”

BURTON: I just don’t think that’s true. And we would never make that case. The point of the ad–

BOLDUAN: Well then, the ad fails, because that’s the message you take away from it, Bill. Whatever message was intended in this commercial is not–nobody hears.

BURTON: It’s clearly lost on some folks, make no mistake about that. But the truth is, is that what this ad is about, is what Mitt Romney wants his campaign to be about.

A video of the exchange is in the linked source.

[JIM O]

This guy needs to be asked how many Obama campaign workers or vendors were present the day the PAC ad was filmed.

[VRWCmember]

BURTON: What fact in that ad is wrong?

From this citation of the add, there are three "facts" from the add that are very wrong Bill.

As melancholy music plays, Mr. Soptic says that when the plant closed, he and his family lost their health-care coverage and "a short time after that, my wife became ill." Her illness was diagnosed five years later. "I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant," Mr. Soptic says in the ad.

1. He and his family did NOT lose their insurance. His wife was still covered by her employer's policy. While HIS insurance was lost, he had two options for continued coverage for himself - obtain COBRA coverage, or get added to his wife's employer insurance - so the statement that his family lost their health care coverage when the plant was closed is FALSE.
2. His wife did not become ill a short time after that; she became ill several years after that, during which time he had taken another job but chose not to cover his wife on his insurance at that job.
3. Mitt Romney did not close the plant. He was not involved in any of the day-to-day management decisions at Bain when it finally closed the plant (that would have closed years earlier had Bain not bought and managed the plant).