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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Dale Baker9/13/2012 12:27:28 PM
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A good fact-check:

*** And why it backfired: But there were three big reasons why Romney’s attack backfired. The first concerned the facts. Romney’s statement criticized the Obama administration for sympathizing “with those who waged the attacks.” And in his news conference yesterday morning, the Republican said, “The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached.” But that is not correct. The embassy statement came out BEFORE the attacks, as NBC’s timeline makes crystal clear. The second reason why it backfired was the timing. Romney’s political attacks (in his statement and subsequent press conference) came right before and then after we learned that the U.S. ambassador to Libya (and three others) died. And it created a contrast where you had President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton mourning the loss of life, versus Romney who making a political attack. And the third reason why it backfired was that the original Cairo embassy statement didn’t come from Obama’s mouth or Clinton’s -- but rather from a senior public affairs officer in Cairo (who reportedly ignored specific instructions not to issue the press release). So Romney linking this directly to Obama -- and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus tweeting “Obama sympathizes with attackers in Egypt. Sad and pathetic” -- was either a stretch or incorrect.
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