Boston Globe Digs Up 10 Year Old Boston Globe Story to Smear Mitt Romney …Update: 3 Pinocchios
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, July 13, 2012, 6:18 AM
In case you haven’t followed the latest attempt by the Democrat-media complex to distract you from the economic devastation of the Obama Administration, here is all you need to know about the latest Boston Globe hit on Mitt.
Via Instapundit:
HARD-HITTING JOURNALISM: Big Boston Globe Hatchet Job on Romney Was Lifted from Far Left Mother Jones and TPM.
Hey, don’t knock Mother Jones. I’ve been in Mother Jones.
UPDATE: Prof. Jacobson writes that the recycling goes farther than that: “Actually, The Globe ran the story 10 years ago in 2002 and it was part of McCain’s oppo research book. The 2002 story was revived during the primaries this year when the McCain oppo research book was leaked. Question for TPM and Mother Jones, where did they get the story? Did they lift it from the Globe, which is too ignorant of its own archives to realize that they were first to the story by a decade?”
Plus: “It gets worse. The Globe has taken down the story temporarily and will give partial credit to TPM and Mother Jones for a story The Globe originated a decade ago!”
Team Obama said they would not apologize for calling Mitt Romney a felon.
It’s more of that civil discourse we were promised.
UPDATE: Here’s more on the smear job. Even the far left WaPo gave it 3 Pinocchios.
Via Instapundit:
ONLY 3? WaPo Fact Checker gives the Obama campaign 3 “Pinocchios” for using Bain’s SEC documents to portray Romney as a criminal. Well, somebody should give Mother Jones, the Boston Globe, and TPM a Pinocchio for not knowing where the story came from. . . .
UPDATE: Ed Rendell — Team Obama went “a little bit too far with the felony business.”
It doesn’t seem to me that Obama’s doing especially well, but judging by the flailing and desperation we’re seeing from his campaign, it must seem to them that he’s doing worse than I think.
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Robert commented:
If they want to call Romney a felon then they should prosecute him.
Put up or shut up.
Economan commented:
Obama has failed in defending this country. His sole job is to protect American citizens and yet he refuses to secure the border and innocent Americans have died. THAT’S a felony.
Greg commented:
I am all in favor of prosecuting white collar crime. When a banker gets a jail sentence for stealing a million dollars that is at least as long as druggie stealing lawnmowers for hock money the American business/political model will improve. When there is no downside to slander there is no trust in the political system and good people will store their assets out of site of the govt
I'm not a racist; I don't like Biden or Pelosi either commented:
Is this a story?
How about an article on all the stories the media aren’t telling us?
Like:
- Joe McCarthy was right
- Evidence of WMD found in Iraq
- Harry Reid is the biggest “obstructionist” in Congress; 30 GOP JOBS bills sitting on his desk
- $700K spent on Disney World conference for gov’t employees (one seminar was “how to get Friends on Facebook”)
I’m sure there are many others.
greenfairie commented:
That’s it. Romney has to go for the jugular now. Question is, will he do it?
dunce commented:
Calling him a felon is a left handed compliment because almost every thing they say is known to be a lie, then that claim must, as usual, also be a lie. A negative endorsement.
Texas_Treeroach commented:
IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF YOU
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The film is based on D’Souza’s New York Times Bestseller, The Roots of Obama’s Rage; and answers the question that no one has so far been able to adequately answer: Why is Obama doing what he’s doing, and how does he intend to accomplish his demolition/rebuilding of the Country we know?
We stood in a long line for a long time; but it didn’t take long for the theater to be packed with people who had been invited from all over Texas and beyond – not one empty seat when the lights dimmed. Yet, there was complete silence throughout the showing — Astounding.
If you do anything before election-day November 6th, see this film; take your friends.
If you don’t do anything at all and Obama is re-elected, you won’t know why and how the demise of America happened.
TeaPartyNation commented:
FYI: the Boston Globe is a leftist Piece of $%^& that is 100% owned by the “all the news that’s fit to fake” New York Times, which is 100% owned by the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist party.
Army Dad commented:
Get used to it. This will be the dirtiest democrat style attack we will ever see.
They can say anything they want and the media stay silent. They will be the disgusting liberal left that we all know but we will see a new level. If Condi is the VP pick, and I hope she is, liberals will be as ugly as needed.
Norm commented:
Ref:
Texas_Treeroach commented:
IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF YOU
…”If you do anything before election-day November 6th, see this film; take your friends.”
Looking forward to when it hits my area…saw an interview with Dinesh D’Souza yesterday on one of the channels…pretty smart guy…like him a lot.
Norm
Monkey Wrench commented:
I’m afraid this story has legs. The Romney campaign has been defending itself from the “Romney fired American workers and shipped their jobs to China” attack by saying that Romney had no responsibility for what happened at Bain after 1999. Instead of defending Bain’s actions, they said Romney wasn’t really at Bain after 1999 and certainly wasn’t responsible for Bain’s actions after 1999.
The SEC filings, that Romney signed, say differently. I’m sure the SEC filings are accurate, since they are legal documents. So Romney needs to quickly explain the discrepancy and knock this story down. Otherwise this could hurt him.
Darth Venomous commented:
Y’know what, chump? No, it doesn’t.
Nice try, though. (Well, no, not really. It’s pretty pathetic, actually.)
Shawnet commented:
O is only doing what he standardly does during any election. Any dirt, any lie, any smear to remove any opponent from the ticket. One of his problems with this election is that, at last, he has a standing record of sloth for us to refer to when, during those quiet moments of contemplation, you think, “What is God’s name happened here? What were we, as a country, thinking in 2008?”
His other problem is that he cannot make Mitt disappear as he has so successfully done in past elections with opponents (this fact always makes me smile at the thought of his frustration over this, and for that I ask for God’s forgiveness). I love watching O self-destruct right before my eyes (one more forgiveness please God ;o)
Shawnet commented:
Let’s start at the beginning:
out source
verb (used with object)
1. (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
2. to contract out (jobs, services, etc.): a small business that outsources bookkeeping to an accounting firm.
off shore
adverb
1. off or away from the shore: They pushed the boat offshore.
2. at a distance from the shore, on a body of water: looking for oil offshore.
3. in a foreign country.
Outsourcing does not mean every job a company outsources goes offshore. Many companies outsource to other American companies; others outsource to offshore companies. I’m tired of REpublicans using the same language to discuss these issues as the Democrats use when talking (read lying). We need to clarify that the two words are not interchangable, and we need to stop doing the same damn thing the Democrats use.
Blackbird commented:
The Boston Globe is one of the worst liberal rags in the country, but every now and then something worthwhile slips through the cracks. This piece appeared while Obama was still running in 2008 and goes into great detail about Obama’s links to Chicago’s slum lords and the dirty deals. I still use it as reference, it’s actually that good. I highly recommend it to everyone to read, it’s totally eye popping stuff if you haven’t seen it before.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
Mumon commented:
So why then doesn’t Romney release the tax returns?
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