Matt Hadro @ Newsbusters:
For the second straight day, CNN blew the whistle on a nasty and misleading Obama super PAC ad that ABC, CBS, and NBC entirely ignored as of Wednesday night. CNN hammered the ad, which links Mitt Romney to a woman’s death from cancer, each hour from 6 p.m. through 10 p.m. and twice grilled the man responsible for the ad, Bill Burton of Priorities USA.
“I think it is deliberately mendacious,” stated CNN’s Piers Morgan on Wednesday. “It is a deliberate attempt to lie and smear about Mitt Romney. And I find it contemptible. I mean I’m really appalled.” The three networks showed no such disdain for the ad which will air in battleground states, because they failed to even mention it on Tuesday and Wednesday. [Video coming soon.]
Bill Burton was President Obama’s national press secretary during the 2008 campaign, a connection that CNN reported and which makes his super PAC’s ad all the more relevant during an election season where the media should be policing false and misleading ads.
“The President cannot hide behind a Super PAC on an ad as nasty as this one when that Super PAC is run by a friend and longtime deputy,” stated Erin Burnett. “Bill Burton knows the President’s ethics very well and it is fair to hold him up to this standard.”
“The facts on this ad don’t even add up,” reported Burnett. Anderson Cooper called it “a factually bogus ad from the leading pro-Obama super PAC.” Correspondent Brianna Keilar, whose critical fact-checking first aired on Tuesday evening, stood by her reporting on Wednesday.
CNN gets input from viewers.
They know this thing stinks and hasn’t fooled anyone.
Trying to hang onto the outside of Obama’s bus while he steers wildly so as to send them under the wheels is a toughy.
Maybe CNN thinks it can just be critical of one little thing Obama does wrong every now and again so he won’t go after them.
There’s an old saying about hoping the crocodile eats you last.
CNN, deep in the swamp with the smiling croc.
Contrary to the claim of this woman’s death which, was not Romney’s fault, let’s talk about the 3,000+ murders obama, holder and clinton caused, incl Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata, with the concocted Fast and Furious scheme.