Posted on 08/09/2012 12:27:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Stephanie Cutter, too. These people are lying through their teeth when they say that they didn't know the details of Soptic's story. Yesterday morning on CNN Starting Point show, they had Stephanie Cutter, Obama's campaign manager... By the way, there's another aspect to this. And I don't think it would amount to anything but it's real. That is the question of coordination. By law, the campaign can have nothing to do with the super PAC. But the campaign has run ads with this guy. There have been two ads featuring Soptic.
One Soptic ad was run by the Obama campaign. The other one, the "Romney Killed My Wife" ad, was run by the super PAC. There's supposed to be no coordination. But people who have analyzed the video notice Soptic's wearing the same shirt in both ads. His hair is the same length, same glasses. His official, union guy hard hat is in both ads. It looks like they're both done in the same place. So people say, "Maybe these two ads that aired months apart were shot the same day."
So is it possible that the campaign is coordinating with the PAC in violation of federal election law? Of course it's possible! In fact, I would submit it's even likely. But who is going to do anything about it? I predict nobody is going to do anything about it. We can mention it. We can volley the allegation. They don't care! Their attitude is, "Make us stop. We don't care. We'll go ahead. We'll violate federal election law. Look it, man, we've got to spare this country from Mitt Romney! Mitt Romney is the ultimate evil."
When you're trying to save the country from the ultimate evil, anything goes. There's no limits on what you can do when you're trying to spare this country experiencing evil. And that's their attitude. So here's Stephanie Cutter. She's with the campaign. She knows Soptic. She worked on the first Soptic ad. They're having a discussion about the PAC ad linking Romney to the death of the guy's wife.
And the host at CNN says (summarized), "This woman died in 2006. This ad basically accuses Romney of killing her. Is that the kind of rhetoric you want to hear in a campaign, especially from the side of the president of the United States? You're the guys who were talking about raising the level of discourse, civility, new politics, post-partisanship. Is this really the kind of rot gut that you want in a campaign coming from your side?"
CUTTER: I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.
RUSH: Oh, really? "I don't know the facts of when Soptic's wife got sick or when she died." Well, on a conference call in May she was listening as Soptic told the same story. This is the steelworker Joe Soptic and Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on the line. Here's a portion of that call...
SOPTIC: A little while later she was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had to put her in a county hospital because she didn't have health care. And when the cancer took her away, all I got was an enormous bill. When you look at what Mitt Romney did at places like GST Steel, you can tell he's only worried about one group of people and that's the people like him, people at the top. You can't expect much more from someone who says he likes to fire people with no concern about what their family really means. Now I'll turn the call back over to Stephanie.
CUTTER: Thank you, Joe. We appreciate you sharing your experiences.
RUSH: Stephanie Cutter -- that's May 14th of this year -- on a call with Joe Soptic as he relates the same story as is in the ad yesterday. Sound bite ten, again, Mike. Yesterday Stephanie Cutter said this.
CUTTER: I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.
RUSH: That's a blatant lie.
But they don't care.
What are we going to do to them? "What are you going to do to us?"
She says, "I didn't know his story." Ms. Cutter, you were on the call. "I don't know his story. I don't know the facts of when his wife got sick or when she died." Well, we just heard you on the call where he tells the story back in May and even turns the call over to you! "I don't know the facts of when his wife got sick," and so then people get exacerbated. (gagging) They're speechless. What do we do? We had this problem with Clinton. What do you do with somebody who blatantly lies?
What do you do? What did you do in high school when somebody blatantly lied? What do you do when your boss blatantly lies? I got fired once for calling a guy on it. I worked for a congenital, pathological liar. And I didn't have any other problem with the guy. I just couldn't deal with it. I couldn't deal with the braggadocios, lying stories. So one day he starts in with these stories. They're all made to make him look big and important and all that.
I said, "Don't give me this. You don't know these people you're talking about. I finally ran into one. These guys never heard of you." And he was stumped, dumbfounded. He didn't quite know what to say. I left, I got home, and 30 minutes later the owner of the radio station called and fired me. People don't know how to deal with liars. I called one of these pathological-type liars on it and I got fired. But most honorable people don't know how to deal with this. And when I say "don't know how to deal with it," I mean they don't know how to make these people pay for this.
They don't know how to make sure there's a penalty.
In this case, the campaign ought not get away with what they're doing. They're lying. And there might be illegal coordination between the campaign and the super PAC. But that's going to require a charge being made and evidence being produced and going to the Federal Election Commission, and we'll get a result next April. The decision will come out next April. So that's when people like me look to the Romney camp.
"Okay, you guys are going to have to do something about this. You can't rely on a bunch of faceless, nameless Tea Party people to get revved up. You can't. You have to deal with this, and that means going after these people. Not on the fact that they lie. Not complaining that they lie. You don't do it that way. You go out and you tell the truth about their destruction of the economy. You go out there and you tell the truth about the fact they're incompetent and they don't know what they're doing and they pose a great threat to the future of the country."
We've got the truth on our side, and that's Obama's economic record. We've got the truth. All we have to do is be unafraid to say it. Cutter? This is the same woman who called Romney a felon. She's the same woman who put the idea out there that Romney is a felon because he was still at Bain when he said he had left Bain. He was still there. She knows. She knows he's a tax-cheating felon. They're still running that ad, the Super PAC is, on their website.
Peter Johnson is a lawyer, a legal analyst on the Fox News Channel. This morning on Fox & Friends they asked him about this. Alisyn Camerota, the guest host, says, "Stephanie Cutter says she doesn't know the details about this guy's wife death and may not know about the details that it was five years later, but clearly she knows Joe Soptic. Is she running afoul of the law here, Peter?"
JOHNSON: Oh, it might be. Under the Federal Election Commission there could be civil penalties and more. The issue is: What's the coordination between the formal campaign and an independent expenditure --
CAMEROTA: Super PAC!
JOHNSON: -- of a so-called super PAC that were created after the Citizen United decision of the United States Supreme Court. In my view that quote, that tape recording shows a real awareness that they were coordinating.
RUSH: Yeah, of course they are. But who is going to do anything about it? And to pile on, here's Soptic himself. January of this year. He's on a public TV program called Democracy Now! The host is Amy Goodman. She's interviewing him. This guy has been a Democrat trick pony for I don't know how many months. He's a Democrat Party activist. He's not this beleaguered citizen. He reminds me of somebody else's name I can't think of right now. I can't remember it. What was her name? Anyway, he's an activist. He's on a public TV program in January talking about this, and in this interview, he's talking about when Bain Capital bought his steel company, GST.
Amy Goodman said to him, "So what happened, Mr. Soptic?"
SOPTIC: They became very, uh, union non-friendly. I mean, they started looking for ways to eliminate jobs. In my case, in my department, they actually offered to buy our jobs out from underneath us.
RUSH: He was offered a buyout! Bain offered to buy him out. They didn't just fire your little butt. They offered a buyout, and you would have had the money to buy health insurance. Here's Sununu talking about this later on Fox.
SUNUNU: Obviously, if that is true, then you have, again, this honesty by omission by the Obama campaign, and unfortunately by this gentleman whose tragedy we empathize with. But, boy, if that turns out to be true, then what he has been griping about toward Mitt Romney is certainly a misrepresentation.
RUSH: Oh, yeah. "Misrepresentation."
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Having trouble finding work?
Why, yes, I am. Just like hundreds of thousands of other Americans.
So why don't you openly call me a fag instead of lying by omission?
No guts, no glory. Go on...do it!
Lots of folks around here are out of work.
@ Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas Unemployment
National......8.2%
Texas.........7.0%
Beaumont...10.5%
So you’re among the bottom 10% of your peers? No surprise to me.
So why don't you openly call me a fag instead of lying by omission?
No guts, no glory. Go on...do it!
Most people are working...
Ah, most. Good for them.
...but you can't find work.
Don't feign false concern when it's naught more than more ridicule on your part which, for some reason, you believe is somehow effective.
What seems to be the problem?
You and your cowardice, insinuation and lying.
You haven't figured that out yet?
Oh, you mean with finding work.
There's not a lot of call for my craft right now.
Petrochemical work is somewhat seasonal and unless you're an ass kisser, a friend/relative or get hired on as maintenance somewhere you have to save your money and wait patiently for quarterly money to kick in.
Now you, I'd bet that you would get a job in a heartbeat!
Don't worry, I've taken recent steps to improve my lot. I've got my oars in the water and I'm rowing hard.
So why don't you openly call me a fag instead of lying by omission?
No guts, no glory. Go on...do it!
I won't name her, so don't bother asking me, and she KEEPS ALL HER MESSAGES, I don't.
Are you sure those were the words she used or are you putting words in someone else's mouth. "Thinking" someone is something and "knowing" someone is something are two vastly different things.
I've got several job skills but I've mentioned many times over the years I've been here that I'm not a lawyer. She simply may not have ever seen such postings and she made a conclusion, even though erroneous, based upon my exhibited behavior.
Having said that, not being a lawyer doesn't stop me from thinking or writing like one, does it?
Do you assume I've no lawyers as friends with whom I've never interacted with or learned from over the years?
Are you a "caste system" thinker? I'm naught but a lowly petrochemical worker so by default I'm an idiot?
Here's a hint...a craftsman makes between $25.00-$28.00 an hour these days around here.
What would you do for a living in an area where the petrochemical industry is one of the highest paying jobs in the area?
You going to grill shrimp on the barbie or get dirty and turn a wrench?
Get REAL!!! She’s a HERO to them and she’ll NEVER be fired.
Lied? Lied? You mean to tell me a Liberal actually told a lie? Can’t be. (sarc)
Lied? Lied? You mean to tell me a Liberal actually told a lie? Can’t be. (sarc)
Lied? Lied? You mean to tell me a Liberal actually told a lie? Can’t be. (sarc)
Oh, I'm not saying she'll be fired, I'm saying whatever delusions of grandeur she has for her apres-Bobo career will be grandly disappointing, as Democrats do not promote female campaign operatives.
It's a men's club. All her lying for a narcisstic behavior disordered boss is actually going to weigh her post-White Hut career down like an anchor. You wait and see. Jan. 2013 she's persona non grata...
So why don't you openly call me a fag instead of lying by omission?
No guts, no glory. Go on...do it!
Your attempts at diversion are weak.
As is documented here on FR, I messed up both of my rotor cuffs (#149) at the same time.
Through diligent physical therapy at home I'm finally healed. My old foremen are either dead or retired so it isn't a matter of simply picking up a phone and asking when is the next job.
And I'm not costing the taxpayers a damn thing. It's called savings! (though that is almost gone now after such a prolonged period of unemployment)
I don't get workman's comp because I didn't realize what happened at the time and I didn't report the injury. If I were an unscrupulous ass I could have gone in to work the next day and faked the injury then, but I'm not that way. I didn't report it so I bit the bullet.
So why don't you take your sick, pathetic insinuations and stick 'em where the sun don't shine.
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