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5. Newsflash. She didn't say she supported equal pay for women. The question asked was whether she
Thu Jan 30, 2014, 02:41 PM
Jan 2014

"is with the President when he says that there should be laws mandating equal pay for equal work for women". Her answer was that "Republicans and I support equal pay for equal work." What she said was the official Republican response of "yes, we support equal pay for equal work but don't think it should be legislated or monitored." She will claim she didn't lie because Republicans do support equal pay. The lie comes in because Wolf asked if she "with the President...should be laws" They gave her an opportunity to pass off another lie on the American people. Women will listen to this and think, "yeah the Republicans support women's rights". Carefully calculated play. Hopefully someone will call her on it in the main stream media. Unlikely.

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