Obama has taken a huge hit with his “You didn’t build that” gaffe. Now his shameless apologists on the “Truth Team” are setting the record straight, claiming that what Obama said wasn’t what your lying ears heard. Townhall‘s reaction:
Simply incredible. The spot shows a clip of Romney reading a verbatim Obama quote, then snarks: “The problem? That’s not what [Obama] said.” Twenty seconds later, the ad shows the clip of Obama saying precisely what his “truth team” just claimed he never said. They can try to spin that Obama didn’t really mean what he said (we dealt with that point earlier), but to assert that he didn’t say it at all must even make old hands Kremlin blush. He said it. It’s in your own ad, guys. But by all means, please continue to explain that Obama didn’t say what he plainly said and that Mitt Romney actually agrees with it, or something. Good luck with that.
And The Blaze:
But in accusing the former Massachusetts governor of taking the president out of context, the Obama campaign takes Romney out of context. This is what he actually said [emphasis added]:
He said this: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” That somebody else is government, in his view. He goes on to describe the people who deserve the credit for building this business. And, of course, he describes people who we care very deeply about, who make a difference in our lives: our schoolteachers, firefighters, people who build roads. We need those things. We value schoolteachers, firefighters, people who build roads. You really couldn’t have a business if you didn’t have those things.
But, you know, we pay for those things. Alright? The taxpayers pay for government. It’s not like government just provides those to all of us and we say, “Oh, thank you government for doing those things.” No, in fact, we pay for them and we benefit from them and we appreciate the work that they do and the sacrifices that are done by people who work in government. But they did not build this business.
So, what was the point of the Obama video? Oh, that’s right: if you take someone out of context, you’re totally willing to say anything to get elected.
You can’t make this stuff up, folks.
Ain’t it the truth.