Former White House press secretary and now Obama campaign adviser
Robert Gibbs tries to change the subject when asked on today’s Morning
Joe about this cycle’s most despicable ad
— the one accusing Mitt Romney of causing the death of a wife of a
laid-off steelworker. Never mind that Romney had left Bain years before
GST shut down, and that Obama bundler Jonathan Lavine was actually a Bain managing director
at that time. Never mind that the woman had her own health insurance
through her own job, and never mind that the death occurred years after
the layoff, let alone Romney’s departure from Bain. Robert Gibbs
instead wanted Morning Joe to focus on how nasty Romney is … for
criticizing Obama’s unilateral action on welfare.
Interestingly, the MSNBC panel wasn’t going to let Gibbs change the subject so easily:
“As everyone dusts off their white horse… let’s go through an ad we know the Romney campaign is entirely responsible for,” Gibbs said, pivoting to slam a new Romney campaign spot that charges the president gutted welfare reform work requirements. Gibbs said the ad untruthfully says the Obama administration has weakened the work requirements.
But panelists on “Morning Joe,” including former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele, said there’s a difference between debating policy and implicating responsibility for someone’s death. “It goes to a different level. It’s a different kind of conversation,” Steele said. “You have a visceral reaction to this ad. Is it or is it not below the belt?”
Gibbs didn’t answer.
Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/08/gibbs-on-indefensible-ad-lets-change-the-subject/
Interestingly, the MSNBC panel wasn’t going to let Gibbs change the subject so easily:
“As everyone dusts off their white horse… let’s go through an ad we know the Romney campaign is entirely responsible for,” Gibbs said, pivoting to slam a new Romney campaign spot that charges the president gutted welfare reform work requirements. Gibbs said the ad untruthfully says the Obama administration has weakened the work requirements.
But panelists on “Morning Joe,” including former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele, said there’s a difference between debating policy and implicating responsibility for someone’s death. “It goes to a different level. It’s a different kind of conversation,” Steele said. “You have a visceral reaction to this ad. Is it or is it not below the belt?”
Gibbs didn’t answer.
Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/08/gibbs-on-indefensible-ad-lets-change-the-subject/
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