Dems Fundraise Using False Claim: ‘BREAKING: REPUBLICANS LAUNCH ANTI-OBAMA LAWSUIT’

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By MRCTV, Special for USDR

The DCCC is fundraising by asking donors to help fight a non-existent Republican lawsuit. A May 12 e-mail with the subject line “Obama faces BLIND HATRED” by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) opens with an untrue headline employing bold-face type in all caps:

“BREAKING: REPUBLICANS LAUNCH ANTI-OBAMA LAWSUIT”

In fact, Republicans did not launch an “anti-Obama lawsuit” – and the lawsuit they’re apparently citing certainly is not “breaking.” Republicans merely filed an opinion with the court regarding a lawsuit by 26 states filed back in December of last year.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), one of the “113 Congressional Republicans” to sign the amicus brief, tells MRCTV the DCCC e-mail is either willfully misleading its donors or ignorant of the difference between an opinion and a lawsuit: “The DCCC is either deceiving its donors or doesn’t understand the judicial system with its fundraising headline about our amicus brief filed this week.”

See full text of DCCC email in full post: http://www.mrctv.org/blog/dems-fundraise-using-false-claim-breaking-republicans-launch-anti-obama-lawsuit