UPDATE: Amanda Henneberg, a spokesperson for the Romney campaign, said this in a statement: "President Obama’s campaign has been caught lying about its knowledge concerning a vicious smear run by his Super PAC. And now, they have doubled down with another dishonorable and dishonest attack. In 2008, candidate Obama said ‘you make a big election about small things’ when you don’t have a record to run on. Since President Obama can’t run on record unemployment, falling incomes, and massive debt, he has decided to run a dirty campaign that is an affront to everything he claims to stand for."
◼ Obama’s Campaign Goes Stupid - Larry Johnson/No Quarter
It is one thing to produce a hard hitting ad that presents factual information in an unflattering light. That is hard ball politics. It is an entirely different cat to lie your ass off and then get caught lying and not have the smarts to concede you overstepped. That summarizes the state of the Obama campaign.◼ Part I: The scurrilous ad defaming Mitt Romney - Bronwyn's Harbor/NoQuarter
You know you have screwed the pooch when your own cheerleaders start giving you the raspberry.
◼ Part II: The Scurrilous Ad Defaming Mitt Romney - Bronwyn's Harbor/NoQuarter
◼ Michelle Malkin to Romney: Nail Obama team for illegal coordination - Ed Morrissey/Michelle Malkin
◼ Obama Campaign Admits Knowing Story Behind Man in Super PAC Ad - Mary Bruce/ABC News @marykbruce
In response, the Romney campaign said the president’s campaign had been caught lying.
“The Obama campaign acknowledged today that it ran a television ad and hosted a conference call that promoted the same despicable attack that was used in a discredited ad run by President Obama’s Super PAC,” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said. “The Obama campaign has now admitted that it lied to the media and the American people in a disgraceful attempt to conceal their connection to this shameful smear. Americans deserve better – they deserve a president who’s willing to run an honest campaign and be honest about his own record.”
◼ Sununu: Obama Camp 'Caught With Pants Down' on Cancer Ad - Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter/Newsmax
“This is a perfect sign of how desperate the president is to avoid talking about issues,” the former GOP New Hampshire governor and White House Chief of Staff said. “Actually, the new low was reached in denying that they knew anything about this ad — and then getting caught having had a discussion of exactly the same topic, with exactly the same individual that’s in the ad, in a telephone news conference with the press last May.”
“They got caught lying,” Sununu told Newsmax. “They got caught with their pants down. They got caught with a despicable ad. They got caught fulfilling the strategy they enunciated a year ago: That all they were going to do in this campaign is to try and destroy Mitt Romney.
“The public should begin to understand that there’s nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.”
◼ Busted: Obama Campaign Video Shows Pension Agreement For Man In Super PAC Cancer Ad… - Weasel Zippers
