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    Burton & Priorities USA Dead Wrong on Newest Ad

     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     k3vsDad told me, 'After watching politics for half a century, I have never seen such blatant lying by those who aspire to the highest office in the land and their supporters. We all know there will be skirting around the edges of truth, but to be so in-your-face with the deceit goes against the very fabric of what I hold dear in America and its place as the land of justice. To me this is an utter injustice to the American people.'
    - hhanks, CNN iReport producer

    Sitting  here listening to Bill Burton, co-founder of Super PAC, Priorities USA,  on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. The man is coming across very  much like the assessments of Politifact.com and the Washington Post and  CNN that the ad inaccurately gives the impression that presumptive  Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is indirectly responsible  for the death of a woman from cancer.

    Burton  keeps saying that the ad does not say and is not meant to infer that  Romney is in any way culpable for the woman's death. He seems to be  incapable of seeing how the correlation is being made. He keeps saying  that reasonable people will not draw that conclusion. I'm a reasonable  person and that's my conclusion. Yet, the CNN reporters, including Wolf  Blitzer, are standing firm and pressing the issue.

    Yet  the more he protests and the more he tries to explain it away, the  worse it sounds. The ad has not run commercially, but is planned for a  run in the battleground states.

    Burton  is unable to defend what the ad says, but says he stands by what is  said in the ad. This is even more in-your-face than so many other lies  and insinuations being put out by both sides of the political spectrum.

    The American voters need to let Burton know, perhaps by using the contact form at Priorities USA, that we are not easily fooled and demand more than a very overtly placed inference.

    Enough is enough.

    From  the Cornfield, Burton and company need to pack this ad in and put it  back in the can. Politics are bad enough without such a vicious attack  whether it is being made on President Barack Obama or Romney.

    By  the way, the Obama campaign and the White House are running away from  the ad. Even though it has now come out that Team Obama does know about  the story of the woman's death from a campaign conference call a few  months ago.

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