Posted on 08/09/2012 12:12:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Let's go to sound bite seven. Bill Burton. This is the guy that runs the PAC that did the ad, a truly disgusting figure. He was on Anderson Cooper last night on CNN. Cooper says, "How can you imply that Mitt Romney and Bain are somehow to blame for that poor woman dying of cancer?"
BURTON: My goodness. We -- we -- we don't and we would not. I mean, those fact checks presuppose exactly what we were trying to do, and that's not the point of the ad. The point of the ad is to tell the story of the impact that Mitt Romney had on the lives of thousands of people. When he came to town they lost their jobs, they lost their health care, they lost their pension benefits. And that impact is felt still today in those communities.
RUSH: So, "Uh, we didn't imply that Romney killed her. We're just telling the story of how Romney killed her. We -- we -- we didn't imply anything. We're just telling the story." But, again, the steel company asked Bain in! We're going blue in the face. I don't think it even matters to get the truth of this out, because that's a distraction in itself. That's not what this is about. What this is about is how low and despicable and disgusting the people around the president of the United States are and just exactly the kind of people they are. I mean, Bain Capital was asked in there.
This woman even had health insurance for two years!
This guy was offered a buyout!
He wasn't just summarily fired and sent to the tar pits. He was offered a buyout, and he would have been able to pay for his own health insurance had he wanted to. But noooo! He didn't want to. So now it's all Romney's fault. And Romney is separated by six years from this story. Here's more from Bill Burton. Anderson Cooper said: "But you're a smart guy. Look, you have a lot of smart ad people in that group you're working with. And half of that ad is talking about his wife's demise. And it ends up with him saying, 'I don't think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done.' The implication, Burton, is clearly that Romney that is responsible or the actions he took led to this woman's death."
BURTON: There are thousands of stories that happened as a result of -- of Mitt Romney and his time at Bain. And some of them are really tragic. But just because they're really sad or tragic doesn't mean they should be off limits. We think it's important to tell the stories of these folks and how they were impacted by Mitt Romney. He put his business experience front and center.
COOPER: A woman dying... How is a woman dying...? But, I mean, she had health insurance from her job after this man lost his job. And then she got an injury years later and then lost her insurance.
BURTON: Right. To say that presupposes that we're trying to link Mitt Romney with her tragedy.
COOPER: You are!
BURTON: N-n-no, no. The truth is --
COOPER: You've made a commercial about Mitt Romney and it's all about this woman's tragedy. If you're not trying to link it, why are you even talking about it?
RUSH: Right. "Well, we're not implying that Romney killed a man's wife. We're just telling the story about how Romney killed a man's wife. That's all we're doing."
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RUSH: We've got one more Bill Burton here. We had a question that Anderson Cooper put to him. There's even some in the mainstream media, even some (and I think just to give themselves cover) who say, "Come on, are you guys serious? Romney's responsible for this guy's wife dying?" The woman had health insurance when she left. She was not fired. Soptic was offered a buyout. They had ample opportunity for health insurance.
It was six years after Romney left. She was diagnosed or she felt uncomfortable, felt bad, but didn't go get it checked out. And you guys want to maintain -- Mr. Burton, are you really serious -- that Romney is responsible for that? You made a commercial about Mitt Romney. It's all about this woman's tragedy. You're trying to link it. Why are you even talking about her? What is the purpose of this ad, Mr. Burton?
BURTON: What we're saying is that at a moment of true, uh, concern and anxiety in a family -- when Joe Soptic really needed health insurance for his family -- he didn't have it. And that's the point, here. He was promised health care benefits and he lost them --
COOPER: (laughing) You've made a --
BURTON: -- at a moment of true anxiety.
COOPER: You've made a thirty-second spot about this. (laughing) When you say, "How can you imply that?" it's totally disingenuous, Bill. Come on! You know that.
BURTON: No. I just don't think that's true. I think Mitt Romney had an affect on these people's lives. When people look at it, when they hear the stories of these folks, they say, "I don't want that guy to be the president of the United States."
RUSH: That's exactly what this is about. Again, it doesn't matter to them. Again, they don't care that they're lying. It's no different than Obama's out there saying, "Our plan worked." It's always been tough for honorable people to go up against people like this. There aren't very many smart people who know how to deal with this. And people who do not lie, people who don't want to like, people who don't engage in activities like this that are totally unethical, don't know how to deal with this.
They sit there and they're stunned.
He's just admitting: "All we want is people to think Romney had something to do with this. We don't care that he didn't! Anderson, you're not getting it here. We don't care that Romney had nothing to do with it. All we want is for people to realize that they don't want Romney to be president. He's not a nice guy! He doesn't care about 'em. We don't care what we have to say to make people think that."
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Bill Burton: We're Not Implying Romney Killed a Man's Wife, ...."We are stating it in no uncertain terms!"
To quote a Congressman: LIAR!!
Burton got his head handed to him and on CNN no less! It was fun to watch the jerk squirm.
Even tougher for Mitt Romney.
So they are telling the American public that romney killed a man's wife? Whew! That is libel, no doubt about it!
I was trying to remember employees I fired from my business 7 years ago, and how weird it would be to find out that one just died of cancer and I was to be blamed.
My understanding, from an earlier article, is that Romney wasn’t even there at the plant’s closing; that a top 0 bundler was heading Bain at the time of the closing.
Here’s the Joe Soptic timeline:
** Mitt Romney left Bain in 1999 to work on Olympics.
** GST Steel in Kansas City was shut down in 2001.
** Top Obama bundler Jonathan Lavine was in charge of Bain Capital at the time.
** Soptic was offered a buy-out.
** Soptic took another job but declined to purchase their insurance plan.
** Soptic’s wife had her own health insurance plan through 2003.
** In 2006, Soptic’s wife was diagnosed — diagnosed! — with very late-stage cancer.
** She died 22 days after diagnosis.
** The pro-Obama PAC Priorities USA cuts an ad blaming Romney for her death.
I think the proper quote is “you lie!” If your thinking of the congressman that called zero out during the state of the union.
I think the proper quote is “you lie!” If your thinking of the congressman that called zero out during the state of the union.
:: So they are telling the American public that romney killed a man’s wife? ::
No, they are telling ^the story^ that Romney killed her. Subtle difference.
Take Citizen Kane, ^the story^ of a powerful man who did not have a real childhood and that lament followed him throughout his life making him miserable. If you conclude that the movie is a depiction of the life of William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles can’t be held responsible for your conclusion.
I hope Bill Burton or someone in the administration reads FR. Because I want them to know what I think of them. They are sub-human scum. They are the filth and dregs of society, not our society but of some third-world pestilence ridden flea hole of a society that has no decency, no human kindness, no worth to mankind at all.
I’m not just talking about Bill Burton. If you are in any way a member of the Obama administration, the Democrat Party, the left, you aren’t fit to pick up my dog poop. In fact, I’d rub your nose in it.
And, I’ve been as kind as possible in writing this out.
He was offered a buyout, and he would have been able to pay for his own health insurance had he wanted to.
One of those nitwits who think the union is his employer
So they are telling the American public that romney killed a man’s wife? Whew! That is libel, no doubt about it!
Should have said it from the floor of the senate, like harry reid. no libel
>> I want them to know what I think of them. They are sub-human scum. &etc
That Stephanie Cutter (O’s campaign director) is the same. Pure evil. As bad as, maybe worse than, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
Do you know what’s really sad, though? That the morals of the American populus is so low that some significant percentage will understand this is a lie and STILL cheer on the party and administration that produced it.
Pray for a Christian revival in America. Without it, it really won’t matter who we are able to elect... we’ll continue down the sewer into the cesspool and even a Reagan won’t stop the decline.
Pure Evil is correct. Satan rides on their shoulders and whispers in their ears. They have given themselves to him and nothing will save them. As for those that cheer them on, they suffer the same fate. The one good thing about this is they’ve shed their mask for all of us to see what’s really behind them. I don’t fear them. I suspect this will be a blowout come November.
It's even harder for people to deal with things that aren't spoken about at all, eh, Rush?
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