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CNN Priorities USA Fact Check (Steelworker's wife 'killed' by Romney quit job w/ health insurance)
CNN via YouTube ^ | Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Posted on 08/07/2012 5:34:00 PM PDT by kristinn

No description at YouTube, so my write up:

CNN's Brianna Kielar spoke with Joe Soptic, a former steelworker featured in a new pro-Obama super PAC ad who was laid off in 2001 when Bain Capital closed the company he had worked at for a reported 30 years. Without directly accusing Soptic and Priorities USA of being despicable liars, CNN lets its reporting call them out as despicable liars.

Soptic told CNN his wife had her own health insurance at her own job when he was laid off. Soptic said his wife quit her job a year or two later due to an unspecified injury, thereby losing her own health insurance. But Soptic still blames her death in 2006 from a brief bout with cancer due to his lack of family health insurance because he was laid off in 2001. In the Priorities USA ad, Soptic says it was a "short time later" from when he was laid off to when his wife got sick and died. CNN reports it was actually five years.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agitprop; bain; cnn; democratscandals; dnctalkingpoints; joesoptic; liarsforobama; liarsoptic; mediawingofthednc; obama; obamaattackads; obamaattacks; obamalies; partisanmediashills; prioritiesusa; ranaesoptic; romney; romneyattackads; smearcampaign; soptic; thebiglie
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To: montag813

It’s over save the billowing trail of suspended carbon particles...


61 posted on 08/07/2012 9:40:18 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: kristinn

Is there any liberal out there that is not a liar?


62 posted on 08/08/2012 2:27:13 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: libertarian27

Yes, insurance is there, and health care. My hubby took care of his own insurance when he was on the hi risk category, it was not cheap but we managed to see that he was insured.


63 posted on 08/08/2012 5:06:14 AM PDT by GrannyK
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To: kristinn

Can someone please tell me what the hell this man was doing for 5 whole years? Was he just unemployed???


64 posted on 08/08/2012 5:16:52 AM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: kristinn

According to a recent survey, Democrats have less scruples about lying than Republicans. Which confirms what we already knew.


65 posted on 08/08/2012 5:44:50 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: kristinn

As Rush would say, “A random act of journalism.”

Obozo must really be in trouble if CNN has turned against him in fact checking the ads from the left............


66 posted on 08/08/2012 6:49:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: USNBandit

The ‘story’ was complete garbage before it was even aired.............


67 posted on 08/08/2012 6:50:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: kristinn

I don’t like Romney anymore than anyone else here, but come on, we cannot afford to have Obama in power for four more years, and bring about total socialism....Mitt may be a socialist, but he’s not nearly as committed to it as Obama is.


68 posted on 08/08/2012 6:54:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: kristinn
AdWatch: Democrats' ad hits Romney on Bain past

"..Soptic's conclusion that Romney bears some blame in his wife's death is not backed up factually in the ad. She died in 2006, five years after the plant closed, a fact the ad doesn't disclose..."

Even the Kansas City Star ran the story. This ad backfired!

69 posted on 08/08/2012 6:54:48 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: caver
"Is there any liberal out there that is not a liar?"

I have yet to meet one. Seems you must be a liar 1st in order to be a lib.

70 posted on 08/08/2012 6:55:37 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Boston Blackie
Joe Soptic pimped his dead wife. Typical rat.

Using her corpse for political gain.

Wait a minute. Are we still on planet earth? CNN is outing this guy as a liar - when his story may have helped cover Noboma and Nobomacare?
CNN is calling out their own ? What the......?

71 posted on 08/08/2012 6:56:45 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

Yes, hell has frozen over! I am now looking out my window to see if any pigs are flying.


72 posted on 08/08/2012 6:59:08 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Boojum

She was a Champion Roller Skater. Under ObamaCare there will be no Roller Skating.


73 posted on 08/08/2012 7:21:16 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: wastedyears

I know a Black Conservative Talk Show Host who had a false rape charge made against him shortly after he started appearing on CNN talking out against Obama.


74 posted on 08/08/2012 7:27:44 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: kristinn

75 posted on 08/08/2012 8:39:01 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I salute & congatualate you!!! I’m so wordy in my posts, and...go on and on sometimes. But....your “Had Enough” icon says it all!!! Onward!!!


76 posted on 08/08/2012 8:44:14 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: kristinn

As Rush would say, a random act of journalism!


77 posted on 08/08/2012 10:46:35 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Behind enemy lines in the city where it's illegal to buy a Big Gulp)
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To: massgopguy

Another reason why I don’t date.


78 posted on 08/08/2012 10:56:48 AM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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To: barmag25

1999.


79 posted on 08/08/2012 12:52:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

So right. Insurance didn’t matter, she died within days of being diagnosed


80 posted on 08/08/2012 3:48:48 PM PDT by PMAS
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