Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager bolted from “This Week” after she was caught lying about her knowledge of Joe Soptic, the star of a Priorities USA attack ad and an OFA campaign ad. Cutter instead joined Nancy Cordes at “Face the Nation,” where she could be assured that one of the biggest news stories of the week would go undiscussed. Cordes’s explanation to BNN’s Larry O’Connor? She ran out of time.
That’s why you lead with the biggest story of the week first. When you’re in the business of ratings, you make sure to include the big questions. When you’re in the business of protecting a political candidate under the guise of objective journalism, you “run out of time.”
No one from the campaign or the SuperPAC has addressed whether the footage of Soptic, who is dressed the same in both ads, came from one shoot or whether ad material was gleaned from separate shoots where Soptic dressed the exact same way.
Cordes had a shot at a legitimate question that no one has before asked–a question that would have made viral video. Instead, she carried water for the administration. I’d be curious to know if there was an agreement with Cutter not to ask about the scandal or if Cutter was allowed to go on with Cordes because her accommodation of Democrats is obvious.
Take these tweets, for example:
Cordes has not published a single tweet as of 9pm central on Monday, August 13th 2012 about the dishonest Obama campaign ad or the Priorities USA ad.
Instead, her timeline is full of rehashed Obama tweets. She might as well retweet them as it would save her the time of copy and pasting them and adding “Obama campaign says” in front as a last-ditch effort at objectivity. For example, a completely false remark/example:
Her Twitter stream goes on like this at length.
Cordes apparently feels that Cutter’s blatant outright lie is nothing more than a “misleading ad” and apparently not important enough to ask about.
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