Trash Lying Obama ad against Romney debunked

LadyEagle · Aug 8, 2012

Intially debunked by CNN, the fact checkers have been busy:

REVEALED: Steel worker's wife who features in shock Obama attack ad blaming Romney for her cancer death had her OWN health insurance

Video features steel worker Joe Soptic, who was laid off and lost his health benefits after the company owned by Bain Capital went bankrupt
Claims his wife Ilyona Soptic died of cancer as a result of him losing his health insurance
Mitt Romney was no longer leading the operations of Bain when the steel mill shut down in 2001
Mrs Soptic died five years after her husband lost his job
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-blames-Mitt-Romney-womans-cancer-death.html

The ad, featuring former GST Steel worker Joe Soptic, suggests Romney was in some way responsible for the death of Soptic's wife because his plant was shuttered after a takeover by Romney's firm and others -- and because his wife died of cancer after he lost his health insurance.

However, the ad hides details about the timeline of those events. Soptic's wife died five years after GST filed for bankruptcy. His wife reportedly had her own health insurance after Soptic left GST. And Romney had long since left Bain Capital at the time of her death.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...eviously-appeared-in-obama-ads/#ixzz22zkkg0Pc

The most brutal political ad of the 2012 election has blown up in the Obama campaign's face after blatant deceptions were revealed in the story of a woman who died of cancer following the closure of a steel mill owned by Mitt Romney's venture capital firm. Joe Soptic links the loss of his job and health benefits at a plant in Kansas City, Missouri, to his wife Ilyona succumbing to stage four cancer in the new commercial titled 'Understands.'(Snip)However, it has come to light that Mrs Soptic had her own health insurance from her employer
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