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Obama mixes up Paul Ryan''s name
In the interview conducted July 11 -- about a month before Ryan was tapped as Mitt Romney's running mate -- the president also misstated the first name of the man who is now on the opposing presidential ticket.

"I'll go ahead and say it -- I think that I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting right there," the president told Woodward according to audio transcripts of their conversations, provided to ABC News.

(Jack Ryan is the name ... of the Republican who was slated to run against Obama in his 2004 Senate campaign before he withdrew in the wake of a sex scandal.)
I highlighted the "sex scandal" part of the above paragraph because it is such blatantly bad reporting. The "scandal" about Jack Ryan was due to his divorce records which were illegally made public during his run against O. This report whitewashes the Obama link to that release. The fix is in for O and always has been.
Correction: Mr. Ryan's divorce records were unsealed by a judge. State law (in most states) allows court records of a divorce (upon request of the parties involved) to be sealed. However, the reasons for the request must be stated and the grounds are fairly narrow. Previously sealed records can be unsealed if a party (not necessarily the man or woman) can convince a court that unsealing the records is in the public interest.

That's just what happened: the Chicago Tribune and WLS-TV, along with some of Mr. Ryan's primary opponents, convinced a California (where the divorce had been filed) judge that the public had a right to know about the details of Jack and Jeri Ryan's divorce, and the judge so ordered.

Details are in Wikipedia. Bottom line: it wasn't illegal, it was just sleazy. While Obama benefitted, he wasn't the obvious instigator (though David Axelrod, his manager, was also a former reporter for the Tribune).

Posted by: Spot 2012-09-10
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