{"id":14888,"date":"2012-08-09T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-09T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:12:48","slug":"stephanie_cutter_lied_about_when_she_heard_the_story_of_how_soptic_s_wife_died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/09\/stephanie_cutter_lied_about_when_she_heard_the_story_of_how_soptic_s_wife_died\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Cutter Lied About When She Heard the Story of How Soptic\u2019s Wife Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Stephanie Cutter. These people are lying through their teeth when they say that they didn\u2019t know the details of Soptic\u2019s story. Yesterday morning on CNN Starting Point show, they had Stephanie Cutter<\/a>, Obama\u2019s campaign manager… By the way, there\u2019s another aspect to this. And I don\u2019t think it would amount to anything but it\u2019s real. That is the question of coordination. By law, the campaign can have nothing to do with the super PAC. But the campaign has run ads with this guy. There have been two ads featuring Soptic. <\/p>\n

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One Soptic ad was run by the Obama campaign. The other one, the “Romney Killed My Wife” ad, was run by the super PAC. There\u2019s supposed to be no coordination. But people who have analyzed the video notice Soptic\u2019s wearing the same shirt in both ads. His hair is the same length, same glasses. His official, union guy hard hat is in both ads. It looks like they\u2019re both done in the same place. So people say, “Maybe these two ads that aired months apart were shot the same day.” <\/p>\n

So is it possible that the campaign is coordinating with the PAC in violation of federal election law? Of course it\u2019s possible! In fact, I would submit it\u2019s even likely. But who is going to do anything about it? I predict nobody is going to do anything about it. We can mention it. We can volley the allegation. They don\u2019t care! Their attitude is, “Make us stop. We don\u2019t care. We\u2019ll go ahead. We\u2019ll violate federal election law. Look, man, we\u2019ve got to spare this country from Mitt Romney! Mitt Romney is the ultimate evil.”<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re trying to save the country from the ultimate evil, anything goes. There\u2019s no limits on what you can do when you\u2019re trying to spare this country experiencing evil. And that\u2019s their attitude. So here\u2019s Stephanie Cutter. She\u2019s with the campaign. She knows Soptic. She worked on the first Soptic ad. They\u2019re having a discussion about the PAC ad linking Romney to the death of the guy\u2019s wife. <\/p>\n

And the host at CNN says (summarized), “This woman died in 2006. This ad basically accuses Romney of killing her. Is that the kind of rhetoric you want to hear in a campaign, especially from the side of the president of the United States? You\u2019re the guys who were talking about raising the level of discourse, civility, new politics, post-partisanship. Is this really the kind of rotgut that you want in a campaign coming from your side?”<\/p>\n

CUTTER: I don\u2019t know the facts of when Joe Soptic\u2019s wife got sick or when she died.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, really? “I don\u2019t know the facts of when Soptic\u2019s wife got sick or when she died.” Well, on a conference call in May she was listening as Soptic told the same story. This is the steelworker Joe Soptic and Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on the line. Here\u2019s a portion of that call…<\/p>\n