Steelworker's 2nd pro-Obama ad "whopper of a lie."

Joe Soptic, a a 62-year-old lifelong Democrat and union supporter, who worked at GST Steel in Kansas City for more than 20 years, makes yet another appearance in a pro-Obama ad titled “Understands.” The commercial was released on Tuesday by Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting the president's reelection campaign. Soptic this time blames Romney for the cancer death of his wife after he lost his health insurance when the steel plant closed.

Point-by-point, the one-minute ad contains omissions, deceptions or outright lies:

--Romney did not close the steel mill.
--Bain Capital's investment did not shut down GST Steel.
--Mrs. Soptic did not lose her healthcare because her husband lost his job.
--Mrs. Soptic died five years after the plant shut down.

Romney was gone from Bain seven years before Mrs. Soptic was diagnosed with cancer and died. When Mrs. Soptic was diagnosed and died in 2006, Romney was governor of Massachusetts and hadn't been in charge of Bain for seven years. The cancer was stage four by the time she went to the hospital for pneumonia. She died 22 days later.

Bain Capital's investment did not result in the closure of the GST Steel plant. Bain Capital was one of several investors that paid $80 million to buy the plant from Armco in 1993. At the time it was struggling, Armco lost $640 million that year. The American steel industry was in the midst of massive shutdowns and struggles as they lost ground to cheaper foreign imports, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bain folded the Kansas City plant, GST Steel, as result of the bankruptcy reorganization, the Journal reports. So who was in charge when GST went bankrupt?  None other than Obama bundler extraordinaire Jonathan Lavine, political power-player serving as a director of Bain at the time of the company’s bankruptcy and layoffs. Lavine joined Bain in 1993. He is currently Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer. He is also a major bundler for Barack Obama, raising between $100,000-$200,000 for his reelection. Shouldn’t Joe Soptic be blaming Jonathan Lavine for his wife’s death and, by extension, Barack Obama himself?  

Mrs. Soptic had her own health insurance for two years after GST shut down. At the time Soptic lost his job, he was earning about $41,000 a year. Mrs. Soptic also had a job working at a local thrift store that gave her health insurance, CNN reports. She kept the job, and the health benefits, until she was forced to quit in 2003 after an injury. But that's not what the commercial says.

Mrs. Soptic died five years after the plant shut down. Here's how the ad plays the timeline: Soptic describes losing his health insurance as a result of the plant closure. "A short time after that, my wife became ill," he says. However, it was not until 2006 -- five years after the plant closed -- that this happened, Soptic has admitted. The story doesn't end there for Soptic. The Washington Post reveals that his income is back to $46,000 a year -- the same he was making at the mill -- thanks to his pension from the company and his salary as a janitor. He has also re-married. He and his high school sweetheart wed four years after Mrs. Soptic died of cancer.

Why is Soptic upset? Primarily, it's because his pension was cut. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Soptic clarified that his 401(k) was not affected but he lost $400 a month from his pension. But, in a January 2012 Reuters story, Soptic reportedly said that he only lost $283 per month from his pension.

So, Joe Soptic egregiously blames Romney for the cancer death of his first wife. Apparently, Soptic hasn't met John Morgan, a plaintiff's attorney in Orlando, Florida. In a radio ad, Morgan despicably said, "Friends ask me all the time 'John, did God give my loved one cancer?' And, I tell them that when my office reviews the medical records, we discover that it was the fault of the doctors, hospitals and nurses......"