Gutter Journalism: Daily Caller Howley’s Attack on CNN’s Cutter Reprehensible

This is what passes as journalism these days. And no, this wasn’t written by a jilted 15-year-old penning a Dear Diary entry for the first time:

“A loathsome creature like Stephanie Cutter, the roots jutting out from her blonde dye job as black as the recesses of her soul, can push her way onto national television to sit next to a former Speaker of the House and two sitting U.S. senators. A charmless, dead-eyed, tacky sociopath with no sense of ethics, an empty shell spewing her flat-throated bile without the slightest trace of self-awareness, can beat all of us to the front of the Darwinian line.”

Yup, that’s how someone named Patrick Howley of the Daily Caller decided to review CNN’s Crossfirereboot, which debuted Monday night. Forget about content, forget about any thoughts around the other co-host of the program on its opening night (Newt Gingrich). This Pulitzer piece was aimed squarely at Ms. Cutter, a prominent member of Team Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012.

Before we continue, know this: As stated in this space before, I voted for Mitt Romney. This isn’t one liberal protecting another. And no, I’ve never met Stephanie Cutter. From what I’ve observed, she’s an effective media-facing resource to have on any campaign.

Did she engage in stretching the truth, in hyperbole? Of course. All campaign operatives do it, and Ms. Cutter had no problem getting her hands dirty in 2012… but let’s not pretend this kind of behavior only happens on the Democratic side of the aisle.

Given her resume and the trend around hiring politicos while they’re still fresh in the public eye, landing Ms. Cutter was bound to happen at one of the big three cable networks. The easy pick would have been MSNBC, where Cutter would have been quite cozy among former co-workers David Axelrod andRobert Gibbs while fielding tee-ball questions from Mika to Matthews to Maddow.

Via: Mediaite.com

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Cutter’s Day Still Getting Worse: “I Promise To Resign As Soon As Romney Gives A Foreign Policy Speech With Some Policy In It”…

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter continues to draw fire as she continues to criticize Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for questioning President Obama’s response to the terrorist attack in Libya.

“I promise to resign as soon as Romney releases his taxes or gives a foreign policy speech with some policy in it,” Cutter emailed a Huffington Post reporter, after clashing with Townhall’s Katie Pavlich, who asked her if she was going to resign.

Cutter also clashed with FOX News’ Bret Baier over her remarks earlier this evening.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Obama's Stephanie Cutter knocks Lehrer

DENVER, Colo. -- Obama spokesperson Stephanie Cutter took a swipe at moderator Jim Lehrer's largely passive debate performance tonight, saying the PBS anchor had allowed Mitt Romney to act as the moderator.

"I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney," Cutter told CNN shortly after the debate, though she told POLITICO that Lehrer did his job as moderator and that her comments were strictly about Romney.

(See also: Complete coverage of the Colorado presidential debate)

Cutter's decision to knock Lehrer may signal an acknowledgment by the Obama campaign that the president did not perform as well as his challenger, Mitt Romney -- which was the general consensus of the media, including the usually pro-Obama MSNBC. (MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz slammed Obama's performance.)

Many on the left criticized Lehrer for being too silent. He rarely interrupted the candidates when they went over their allotted time, and when he did it was almost always a losting battle. His attempts to control the conversation were so notably nonconfrontational that they became memorialized in a Twitter handle named @SilentJimLehrer.

But Lehrer's passivity also allowed the two candidates to engage one another, and if Obama did not engage Romney or land any singificant blows, he may have no one to blame but himself. Though it is the moderator's responsibility to keep time and keep the candidates on topic, it was up to the president -- not the moderator -- to take on his challenger. 

(Also on POLITICO: Lehrer: The master of moderation)

Nevertheless, reaction to Lehrer's passivity on Twitter was largely negative, ranging from the constructive to the cruel. "Moderator Jim Lehrer perhaps too laid back tonite," Lynn Sweet, the Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote. "Jim Lehrer may be the worst moderator in the history of moderation," conservative columnist John Podhoretz wrote.

UPDATE (9:47 p.m.): Cutter emails:

"Jim Lehrer absolutely did his job as a moderator, as only Jim Lehrer can do. But Mitt Romney wanted to play by his own rules, and that came across loud and clear."

UPDATE (10:21 p.m.): Romney spokesperson: 'You've lost debate when you start blaming the moderator'

Via: Politico

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Cutter: An incomplete is a totally awesome grade after four years

We’ve been waiting for the Barack Obama re-election campaign to come up with a new slogan ever since they added a period to “FORWARD.”  If the last 24 hours are any indication, the new slogan is either “INCOMPLETE” or possibly “GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE.”  After Barack Obama gave himself an “incomplete” on the economy in a Colorado Springs TV news interview last night, ABC’s Jake Tapper asks Team Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter whether that “cut[s] it” as an answer.  Absolutely, Cutter responds:

TAPPER: “So President Obama was asked recently about the grade he would give himself. And once again he gave himself an incomplete. It’s been four years. Does that answer cut it? An incomplete after a full term?”

CUTTER: “Yeah, it does, because, you know, once again I’ll remind you of what life was like when he took office. 800,000 jobs were lost in that month alone. 3.5 million in the 6 months prior. And, you know, pretty quickly he was able to turn job loss into job growth. But when he’s saying incomplete, it means a number of different things. One: we’re on a path forward. You know, we’re on our way up. And there is a lot more that he wants to get done. He’s not done yet.”

We’re moving forward?  Really?  Unemployment has been above 8% since before the recovery began, and we’ve only averaged an additional 66,000 jobs per months since — far below the level needed to keep up with population growth.  Once again, here’s the latest from the BLS on the civilian participation rate, which started at 65.7% when Obama took office and was at the same level when the recovery began in June 2009 — but has plunged ever since, to a 30-year low:

Cutter says, “He’s not done yet.”  That’s what keeps many of us awake at night.

Via: Hot Air

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All-Out Marxist Media Assault on Romney/Ryan begins with Gusto!

First and foremost—lest I forget—both the presidential and vice-presidential “debates” questioning of Romney, Obama, Ryan and Biden will be moderated by the most leftist “journalists” who inhabit the alphabet network stables. To top it off, the sole vice-presidential debate’ “moderator”—Martha Raddatz—was married to Obama FCC appointee Julius Genachowski whom the Daily Caller reports: “Genachowski and classmate Barack Obama worked together on the Harvard Law Review, Genachowski as notes editor and Obama as the publication’s president. They graduated in the same class.”

Note: This year, the media bias appears to be greater than ever…if that’s even possible.

The Marxist media have been passing on each and every Obama syndicate (which includes all White House staff and all Democrats in Congress) unsubstantiated negative story (aka “lie”) perpetrated against both Romney and Ryan. Long after they have been proven false, the media (including—of course—CNN and MSNBC) continue to float and “report on” these concocted yarns and tall-tales that Romney (while Governor of Massachusetts) outsourced jobs to India, caused a woman with no health insurance to develop and die from Cancer (not only did she have health insurance but, the entire premise of the ObamaAD appears to have been manufactured by Obama operative Stephanie Cutter illegally in conjunction with an Obama SuperPac) and—another lie delivered via Ms. Cutter—that Romney lied to the SEC and is a felon.

Note: As with all Marxists and other totalitarian aficionados, at some point it becomes almost impossible to keep up with their contrived lies. This is what they count on occurring.

However, with regards to the upcoming debates, we suspect the questioning may go a little like this:

Via: Canada Free Press

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OBAMA CAMPAIGN CAUGHT PULLING ANOTHER FAST ONE

 Willie Geist, MSNBC: What would you say to that same person that said, 'Well, that hasn't worked for four years. I haven't had the job over time, it's time for a change.'

 

Stephanie Cutter, Obama deputy campaign manager: Well, I think that worker probably has a good understanding of what's happened over the past four years in terms of the president coming in and seeing 800,000 jobs lost on the day that the president was being sworn in, and seeing the president moving pretty quickly to stem the losses, to turn the economy around, and over the past, you know, 27 months we've created 4.5 million private sector jobs. That's more jobs than in the Bush recovery, in the Reagan recovery, there's obviously more we need to do, and as I said to Mika at the at beginning of the program, I think that unemployed worker probably sees one person in this race trying to move the country forward and that's the president.

 

(h/t) RCP

 

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The Obama campaign is cherry-picking the numbers…

Job Growth

·         Obama: Cutter counts the job gains from the low point of Obama’s term forward. The low point was February 2010 when U.S. nonfarm payrolls measured 129,244,00. In July, they measured 133,245,000 for a gain of 4.0 million jobs in 27 months

·         Reagan: If you measure the Reagan recovery the same way, he created 8.0 million new jobs in 27 months.

·         Bush: And if you measure the Bush recovery the same way, the low point was in August 2003 when U.S. employment stood at 129,820,00. But 27 months later, the figure was 134,654,000 in November 2005 — a gain of 4.8 million jobs.

In this recovery, we’re still down over 3 million private sector jobs. By any number of measures, according to the AP, this recovery has been the weakest since WWII.

Via: Fox News

In 1991 Harvard Law School yearbook, Obama called for ‘mutual respect and tolerance’

A copy of Harvard Law School’s yearbook from 1991 — the year Barack Obama graduated — is for sale on eBay, and it provides an as-yet-unseen look into the future president’s views on the kind of “mean-spirited” campaign discourse that some Republicans say has characterized his own re-election campaign.

The seller, who first listed the item for sale July 17, provided scanned images of pages where Obama appeared, including his self-written “Student Profile.” In the essay, Obama mentioned “diversity” twice, including one mention of “faculty diversity,” a concept for which future first lady Michelle Obama — then Michelle Robinson — argued strongly in a 1988 Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) essay.(RELATED: In Harvard essay, young Michelle Obama argued for race-based faculty hiring)

A note next to Barack Obama’s official yearbook photo also identifies him as a member of the BLSA.

His central message in 1991 concerned his desire for greater civility.

“After three years, I continue to be struck by the tremendous talent and energy among HLS students and faculty,” Obama wrote. “The diversity of campus life challenges all of us to question our assumptions, listen to other viewpoints, and articulate our values in a spirit of mutual respect and tolerance.”

By contrast, Republicans both inside and outside of GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney’s campaign have complained in recent weeks that the tone of Obama’s re-election effort has grown in coarseness and aggression.

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter accused Romney on July 12 of being either a liar or a felon, following the Boston Globe’s disclosure that Romney maintained legal title to Bain Capital well after his departure in 1999 to run the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

Via: Daily Caller

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