So I caught the very end of Anderson Cooper, David Gergen, and that guy who used to have his own show on CNN but doesn't anymore . . .
(UPDATE: I have added a link to the transcript of this conversation below.)
They were discussing how basically Mitt Romney has really stepped in it this time with his oh so obvious lies about when he left Bain Capital, and Anderson Cooper said that the story was "complicated" and that it would take reporters "days" to figure it all out . . . lol.
Anywho . . . the reason I am writing this diary is that at the very end, David Gergen says, (and I am paraphrasing) . . . "The Obama Campaign is really playing hard politics with this . . . and that is not what we were promised."
You got that?
The problem with this story is that the Obama Campaign would DARE even bring it up, let alone accuse sweet little Mitt Romney of a felony!
The MSM REALLY does not want to report this story . . . because they cannot figure out a way to finesse this lie . . . so now . . . it's "complicated" . . . it's "politics".
Just needed to share this . . . validate what I just heard on national TV by a commentator that for some reason I thought I respected.
Edited to add: So the secret to making the Rec List is posting before bed? So noted! :o)
P.S. Thanks to sgary from the comments for supplying the name of the other CNN commetator that eluded me last night . . . John King!
Here is the link to a transcript of that section of AC360 last night . . .
http://edition.cnn.com/...
And here is the portion of the conversation I heard last night . . . I bolded the actual quote of what David Gergen said at the end:
COOPER: Yes. John, I mean, both of the campaigns have gone all in this week on the message that the other side is lying about Bain, Romney's business record. How critical do they think this debate is to the campaign? And where could it have the biggest impact?
KING: Well, in some ways, inside the Obama campaign, they might say they're winning, even as we have a conversation in which we say it doesn't appear that what they're saying about Governor Romney is true. Why? Because we're not talking about the broad U.S. economy. We're not talking about four months in a row of rather dismal job reports.
And the Obama campaign -- look, if it were a Republican president right now, they'd be trying to do the same exact thing. Get us to talk about anything but the single biggest driving force in American politics which is right now a very weak economy.
So what are they doing? As voters make up their mind over the next couple of months, Anderson, how am I going to vote, the Obama campaign wants to say, maybe you don't like me, maybe you're upset with the strength of the economy right now, but look at this other guy. He's greedy. He keeps secrets. He's not telling the truth. You can't trust him.
COOPER: David, there's no question this is complicated. It may take days for reports to get to the bottom of the story. Although frankly from both of you it sounds pretty definitive. If you're the Romney campaign, do you want to clear this up completely or does the ambiguity actually help somehow? Or is this -- just having this discussion hurtful?
GERGEN: I think John is right. Every day that's spent talking about this helps the Obama campaign. I do think the Romney campaign, I think Bain Capital has a very strong interest in getting the facts out as they know them. And then putting it forward. And trying to close the books on it.
I also think that over time Mitt Romney's going to have to provide more of his tax returns than he's been willing to do so far. Having said that, again, what's surprising about this is the Obama campaign is now playing a very rough form of politics. And is that really what we were promised way back when?
COOPER: Not -- and the answer, clearly, your indication, is not.
GERGEN: I don't think so.
*Bold added.