Stephanie Cutter, Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager, Lies...Again

By Rob Janicki
Stephanie Cutter, Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager, served up another whopper and we aren't talking Burger King either.  There is no easy way to soft peddle the fact that Cutter spins one lie after another.  Her latest may be her greatest yet.  Her comments were made on MSNBC's Morning Joe Show on Wednesday morning.  You be the judge.  From IBD...

[...] "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 (or) in the Reagan recovery." [...]

Wrong on both counts Stephanie.  Investor's Business Daily goes on to deconstruct the delusions Cutter's trying to sell as fact.

[...] She starts counting private-sector job growth under Obama in February 2010 and, sure enough, in the 29 months since then (not 27 as Cutter says), there have been 4.5 million private-sector jobs created, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.But keep in mind that February 2010 was fully eight months into the economic recovery. So Cutter has simply picked the worst month under Obama as her starting point, in order to make Obama's job growth look as impressive as possible. [...]

IBD used the Cutter methodology to compare the Reagan and Bush job creations to Obama.

[...] In the aftermath of the 1981-82 recession, private-sector jobs bottomed out in December 1982, the month after that recession ended. Twenty-nine months later, the private sector under Reagan had created 8 million jobs — nearly twice as many as under Obama. [...] 

And that's using the identical methodology used by Cutter.  Now, let's look to the George W. Bush recovery using the same methodology.

[...] ... if you use the Cutter method, the private sector created 4.7 million jobs in the 29 months after July 2003, when the job market bottomed. In other words, Bush beat Obama by his own preferred measuring technique by 200,000 jobs. [...]

Let's then compare the unemployment rates during these three 29 month periods.

[...] after 29 months of allegedly stellar job growth under Obama, the jobless rate is still 8.3%. By this point in the Reagan and Bush jobs recoveries, the unemployment rate was 7.2% and 4.9%, respectively. [...]

It has become painfully obvious that Stephanie Cutter will say anything, so anything, no matter how far off the mark it might be.  She purposely lies, knowing that once the lie gets out that it will stick with some voters too ignorant to know the facts or too lazy to find out the truth of Cutter's statements.  

Cutter is simply practicing the art of the Big Lie buried in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which is to get the lie out, keep pounding the lie in the media, deny, obfuscate and then move on to the next Big Lie.  That's the dynamic construction of the concept of the Big LIe.  Let opponents chase their tails trying to disprove the lie.  It occupies their time trying to disprove the false 'fact' and keeps them off their game.  It's typical misdirection used by propagandists and Cutter is the lead liar for the Obama campaign.