The hardworking staff’s acclaimed (as of right now) Perry & Thrust series continues with this addition (via NH Journal):
AUSTIN – The Perry campaign today released a 30-second television advertisement, “Lazy,” which is airing over national cable and Iowa broadcast and cable.
“As President Obama continues to make excuses for our nation’s economic struggles, apologizing for America and disparaging Americans by calling us lazy, soft and un-ambitious, Gov. Perry is offering solutions to reverse the damage inflicted by this out-of-touch administration,” said Perry campaign communications director Ray Sullivan.
(Background via Politico here.)
Said ad:
Memo to Barack: The less you talk, the better you’ll do.
Campaign Outsider 
Memo to John: No, President Obama Didn’t Call Americans Lazy.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/11/16/no_president_obama_didn_t_call_americans_lazy_.html
Perhaps you should re-title your series:
“Republican campaign ads lie, Campaign Outsider doesn’t notice (Lazy Correspondents Edition)”
When you’re right, you’re right, Stephen. More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xlQ7cJV5s
And more (from Steve Benen):
“President Obama told business leaders at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that U.S. policymakers have been “a little bit lazy” when it comes to attracting businesses to American soil. Republicans have taken this line and said the president called Americans “lazy.” They’re lying.
It’s been pleasantly surprised by the number of news outlets who’ve been willing to tell the public the truth. Usually, it’s up to blogs to set the record straight — in this case, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, Slate, Time, ABC, and National Journal have all said Republicans are taking Obama’s comments out of context. Good for them.”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/the_truth_is_supposed_to_matte033559.php
And more (from NBC’s Mark Murray):
“But when you examine what Obama said on Saturday — to business leaders at the APEC summit in Hawaii — it’s pretty clear that his critics are taking him out of context. He wasn’t calling Americans lazy; rather, he was calling U.S. business practices to attract foreign investors lazy. In fact, you could interpret his full remarks as a call to arms to improve on that front.”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/16/8842658-a-lazy-attack
And more (from ABC’s Devin Dwyer):
“The full context of Obama’s remarks made Saturday during a meeting of CEOs in Honolulu indicates he wasn’t suggesting that at all.
Boeing CEO James McNerney asked Obama about his thinking on the perception by some countries of “impediments to investment” in the U.S.
Obama replied that “we’ve been a little bit lazy” about actively trying to attract private foreign investors to U.S. soil — referring broadly to American government and business sectors, not the American people themselves.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/perry-ad-distorts-obama-lazy-comment/
Isn’t policy making for the United States one of Obama’s responsibilities as President?
I’m not sure that calling himself lazy was what he really intended…but that is what he said. “U.S. policymakers have been “a little bit lazy” when it comes to attracting businesses to American soil.”
The CBS Evening Snooze with Scott Pelley on Thursday 11/17 also did a thorough comparison of the Perry commercial and the Prez’s complete statement.