CNN Hammers Obama for Vicious Super PAC Ad – Morning Joe Skewers WH For *Getting Caught* in Such Petty Lies (Video)

For two days straight, now,  CNN has been hammering Obama  for the vicious and patently dishonest super PAC ad, that most other networks have been ignoring.

Newsbusters reported:

“I think it is deliberately mendacious,” stated CNN’s Piers Morgan on Wednesday. “It is a deliberate attempt to lie and smear about Mitt Romney. And I find it contemptible. I mean I’m really appalled.” The three networks showed no such disdain for the ad which will air in battleground states, because they failed to even mention it on Tuesday and Wednesday. [Video coming soon.]

Bill Burton was President Obama’s national press secretary during the 2008 campaign, a connection that CNN reported and which makes his super PAC’s ad all the more relevant during an election season where the media should be policing false and misleading ads.

“The President cannot hide behind a Super PAC on an ad as nasty as this one when that Super PAC is run by a friend and longtime deputy,” stated Erin Burnett. “Bill Burton knows the President’s ethics very well and it is fair to hold him up to this standard.”

“The facts on this ad don’t even add up,” reported Burnett. Anderson Cooper called it “a factually bogus ad from the leading pro-Obama super PAC.” Correspondent Brianna Keilar, whose critical fact-checking first aired on Tuesday evening, stood by her reporting on Wednesday.

“So it just seemed like there was very much an incomplete picture in this ad,” she said, adding “I think it’s inaccurate” and “there are a number of factors that aren’t mentioned in the ad.”

Meanwhile, on MSNBC, the Morning Joe crew also skewered the ad, calling it  indefensible:

Scarborough:

“These are all people who we know, who we like, these are all people who are being told to do something that makes them look bad, makes the White House look bad, making their President look bad. I think it’s a real mistake.”

Everybody knows that they are not their own people. They’re speaking for a White House. They are speaking for a President and they are being told what to say before they go out and give their briefings. I don’t know who’s instructing them to not tell the truth, but whoever it is is doing a disservice not only to them, but the campaign, and the President himself. I can’t believe that an organization that is this good has allowed itself to get in such petty lies over the past 24 hours. Move on, I just don’t get it.”

Except these are not “petty lies” the Obama camp is getting caught in. There is no redemption for a campaign that manufactures such despicable, damnable lies. It should surprise no one that they are feigning ignorance  as another one of  their stink bombs  blows up in their faces.