Ed Gillespie Struggles To Defend Campaign’s Major Economic Claim

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Romney Adviser Ed Gillespie Struggles To Defend Campaign’s Major Economic Claim
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/15/464654/ed-gillespie-economics-struggle/

Mitt Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie struggled to defend his campaign’s central piece of evidence supporting its claim that President Obama is waging a war on women today. The claim — that 92 percent of jobs lost under Obama where lost by women — has been called highly misleading and “mostly false” by Politifact (twice), the Washington Post’s fact checker, an AP fact checker, and even the rabidly conservative Daily Caller.

Even Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace saw the problem with the claim and pressed Gillespie when he mentioned the figure this morning. “It is not true,” Wallace said of the larger Romney argument, calling the 92 percent figure a “little bit of an accounting trick” and noting that “all the independent fact checkers have said it’s misleading.”

The best defense Gillespie could muster was to claim that some of the economists quoted by the Washington Post’s fact checker were liberal. Watch it:

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Gillespie doesn’t even attempt to defend the substance of the claim because there is little substance to it.

[russspeakeasy]

1. They lie. They get caught. They don't care. They lie again.

They get caught again . They don't care.

[kentuck]

2. And they will continue to lie until the media or someone...

presses them to admit that it is a lie or fabrication...

Just as David Gregory let Michelle Bachman make the statement that women care about $4 per gallon gas, as if they didn't care about it when it was at $4 per gallon during the summer of 2008?? Nobody called her on it... not a murmur...

Therefore, should we be surprised if she keeps spouting that bullshit?

[russspeakeasy]

3. We have one shot...Martin Bashears

I don't know if I spelled his last name right, but he's the only "journalist" with any spine.

[kentuck]

5. UNfortunately, one or two is not enough..

When Republicans become afraid of getting called on their BS, then they will stop it. So long as the media, and the Democrats, lets them get away with it, it will continue forever...and the people will continue to be hoodwinked.

[LiberalFighter]

4. The writer of that article needs to know the difference between the word

where and were.

[PADemD]

6. I'm waiting to hear someone ask how many women lost jobs because of Bain Capital.

[russspeakeasy]

7. The answer will be "zero", and no one will challenge them.