The radio gasbags have been slamming Matthews for daring to claim that the Mitten$ campaign is playing the race card but it's not just him. Ron Fournier used to be an AP Editor who many of us thought was an undercover conservative hack. He's now at the National Journal and lost his hackness with a Mitten$ mouthpiece:
When Wonks Attack! Romney Welfare Ad Causes Kerfuffle at Convention EventUPDATE: Fournier continues here.
By Elizabeth Flock
August 28, 2012
US News & World Report
...Fournier soon brought the conversation around to a hot-button topic: the Romney campaign's new series of welfare ads. The ads say that the Obama administration ended work requirements for Americans in the welfare program, effectively "gutting welfare reform."
Fact checkers have largely debunked the premise of the ad, pointing out that the work requirements in fact have not been ended.
But Fournier did not just tell Kaufman the ad was wrong, he also accused the Romney campaign of "playing the race card." Fournier, who is from Detroit, Mich., said that welfare is a hot button issue in his hometown, and that this ad was "pushing that button ... playing to that racial prejudice. And I'm wondering: are you guys doing that on purpose?"
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