{"id":15047,"date":"2012-08-09T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2012-08-09T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:49:58","slug":"at-least-they-admitted-they-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"At Least They Admitted They Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted a story (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15039\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>) about a recent <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Campaign advertising\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_advertising\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">political ad<\/a> by a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political action committee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_action_committee\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Political Action Committee<\/a> (PAC) supporting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> that accused <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> of being responsible for the death of Joe Soptic\u2019s wife. When confronted with the actual time line of the events, which totally discredited the ad, the Obama Administration denied knowledge of the specifics. Well, not so fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2012\/08\/obama-camp-acknowledges-knowing-mans-story-131577.html\">Politico<\/a> reported today that the Obama Administration has stopped denying that they were familiar with Joe Soptic&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/tag\/barackobama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama <\/a>campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki acknowledged Thursday that the campaign was no longer pleading ignorance about the story of a man who has appeared in both a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/tag\/superpacs\" target=\"_blank\">super PAC<\/a> ad and a campaign ad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;No one is denying he was in one of our campaign ads. He was on a conference call telling his story,&#8221; Psaki told reporters on Air Force One.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, the campaign is not supposed to coordinate with the PAC&#8217;s, so the ad cannot be traced directly to the President, but it would have been nice if he had denounced the ad when it was released.<\/p>\n<p>I stand by my original statement that I am appalled by a husband that would choose to use the death of his wife for political purposes. This ad was totally beyond the pale. Unfortunately, I suspect we will see more of this behavior from the Obama Campaign and their supporters. I have heard very few Democrats denounce the ad. That is the action that is required.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=bff74b43-c2a7-4095-960c-c52ce5b896ba\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted a story (rightwinggranny.com) about a recent political ad by a Political Action Committee (PAC) supporting President Obama that accused Mitt Romney of being responsible for the death of Joe Soptic\u2019s wife. When confronted with the actual time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,3421,3731,3727,352,2888,2464,285],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-barack-obama-presidential-campaign-2008","tag-jennifer-psaki","tag-joe-soptic","tag-mitt-romney","tag-political-action-committee","tag-stephanie-cutter","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}