TPM: How The ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Canard Went From Right-Wing Blogs To Mitt Romney’s Mouth
A reader flagged Obama’s Friday night speech to Hot Air weekend editor Jazz Shaw, who reported on it Saturday afternoon. Fox News radio on Saturday also highlighted the quote from its transcript of the speech. Early Sunday morning, The Washington Times posted a video of Obama’s speech. By Sunday evening, the Washington Free Beacon followed suit.
On Monday morning, Fox News’ megaphone elevated the line. Stu Varney detailed Obama’s “shocking point of view,” calling the president’s statement “a near-socialist approach to economics.” Other Fox News hosts, right up through primetime, made mention of the quote.
Mitt Romney, after suffering days of withering attacks over his days at Bain Capital, delivered a fiery speech in Pennsylvania Tuesday, accusing Obama of “attacking success.”
“Our economy is driven by free people pursuing their ideas and their dreams,” Romney said. “It is not driven by government and what the president is doing is crushing economic freedom.”
Tuesday evening, after Romney’s speech and a Fox News “focus group” on Obama’s war against “success,” the Romney campaign sent a fundraising email based on the “you didn’t build that” line. Obama’s comments are a “slap in the face to the American Dream,” campaign manager Matt Rhoades wrote. The Romney campaign did not immediately return a request for comment
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