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To: Brumar89 who wrote (668397)	8/21/2012 1:00:31 PM
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When a reporter noted that Obama's campaign had "suggested that [Mitt] Romney might be a felon" and that Obama's officially endorsed super-PAC had produced an ad that "links Romney to a woman's death," Obama responded: "Well, first of all I am not sure that all of those characterizations that you laid out there were accurate. For example, nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon." Sorry, Mr. President, but what you said is false. On July 12, Obama's deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter told reporters on a conference call that Romney "through his own words and his own signature" misrepresented "his position at Bain to the [Securities and Exchange Commission], which is a felony." Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer four days later if she wanted to retract the charge, Cutter instead doubled down: "It's a fact. If you're signing federal documents knowing them to be false, it's a felony. Anybody who works in the federal government knows that." If that is not accusing Romney to be a felon, then what is? Obama then denied having any control over the super-PAC ad that accused Romney of causing a man's wife to die of cancer. But in February, Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina sent a letter to donors on Obama's behalf, urging them to give money to the very super-PAC in question. His former aide Bill Burton runs it, and his top aides, including senior White House adviser David Plouffe, have been raising money for it as recently as last week.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (668397)	8/21/2012 1:00:47 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1580130

Obama then denied having any control over the super-PAC ad that accused Romney of causing a man's wife to die of cancer. But in February, Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina sent a letter to donors on Obama's behalf, urging them to give money to the very super-PAC in question. His former aide Bill Burton runs it, and his top aides, including senior White House adviser David Plouffe, have been raising money for it as recently as last week.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (668397)	8/21/2012 1:07:14 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1580130

White House Sets Ground Rules for Local Interviews by Keith Koffler on August 21, 2012 whitehousedossier.com The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk. In interviews with three local TV stations Monday, two from states critical to Obama’s reelection effort, Obama held forth on the possibility of “sequestration” if he and Congress fail to reach a budget deal, allowing him to make his favorite political point that Republicans are willing to cause grievous harm to the economy and jobs in order to protect the rich from tax increases. Obama Monday threw the White House press corps a bone by suddenly appearing in the briefing room for 22 minutes and taking questions from a total of four reporters. It was his first press conference at the White House – albeit in miniature – since March, and only his second of the year. Obama before Monday had taken exactly one substantive question from White House reporters since June. But the three other interviews Obama also held Monday pointed to the advantage he gets by focusing on local press, with whom he has been speaking more regularly. Under sequestration, if a budget deal is not reached by the end of the year, harsh automatic spending cuts will occur. Each of the network reporters were from cities with major military facilities that could be unduly impacted if sequestration occurs. Two of the reporters were from Norfolk, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida, both presidential battleground states. The third was from San Diego. The reporters mostly made no effort to hide the arrangement. “The president invited me to talk about sequestration,” NBC 7 San Diego’s reporter told her audience. In the interview, she set Obama up with a perfectly pitched softball the president couldn’t have been more eager to take a swing at: “What do you want individual San Diegans to know about sequestration?” she asked. Donna Deegan of FCN Jacksonville initially seemed to apologize for not broaching the appointed subject right away. “Mr. President, I know we were asked to talk about sequestration today,” she said, but then added she wanted to talk about something else first. Finally, she got to it: “Let’s talk a little bit about sequestration, because I know that’s why you invited us here,” she said. Obama used an interview with WVEC Norfolk to specifically bash Republicans. “The only thing that’s standing in the way of us getting this done right now is the unwillingness on the part of some members of Congress, and folks in in the Republican Party, to give up on some tax breaks for people like me who don’t need them,” he said. The reporters were able to ask about other topics. But with their face time with the president limited to under ten minutes, and Obama well rehearsed to discuss at length his favored topic, there was little room for much else to come up. Related Posts: WH Press Corps Goes Seven Weeks Without a Question Peers Unlikely to Sanction Daily Caller WH Reporter WashPost Tackles White House Bullying of the Press White House Likely to Step Up Bullying of Reporters White House Bats Down Cranky WH Press Corps