Obama Adviser Slams Romney Camp’s "Studied Outrage" In The Mommy Wars

After a Romney adviser tries to pin another anti-Ann insult on the Obama campaign, Axelrod tells him to “stick it…”

On Friday night, HBO’s liberal flamethrower Bill Maher weighed in on Hilary Rosen’s remark that Ann Romney had “never actually worked a day in her life.”

His take:

“But what she meant to say, I think, was that Ann Romney has never gotten her ass out of the house to work. No one is denying that being a mother is a tough job, I remember that I was a handful. Okay, but there is a big difference in being a mother, and that tough job, and getting your ass out of the door at 7am when it’s cold, having to deal with the boss, being in a workplace, and even if you’re unhappy you can’t show it for 8 hours, that is a different kind of tough thing.”

The Romney campaign’s Eric Fehrnstrom seized on the comment in an attempt to extend a controversy that has mostly favored his candidate:

Bill Maher's degrading comments on Ann Romney not easily dismissed - he's a $1m donor to Priorities USA @billburton716

— Eric Fehrnstrom (@EricFehrn) April 14, 2012

But Obama adviser David Axelrod, who has already called on Rosen to apologize, pushed back against Fehrnstrom:

@EricFehrn Rush rips Sandra Fluke in the coarsest, most vile way.All Mittcould manage was a weak " not the language I would have used."

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 14, 2012

@EricFehrn Foster Friess, who gave Santo Super $1.7M, hearts Romney, saying he hopes POTUS's "teleprompters are bulletproof." Mitt? Silent.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 14, 2012

@EricFehrn So until you have the guts to stand up to one of your own, you can take your studied outrage and stick it in...your Swiss bank!

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 14, 2012

@EricFehrn Texas billionaire Harold Simmons pledges $36m to GOP, and calls Obama "the most dangerous American alive." Silence from Mitt.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 14, 2012

By not condemning Bill Maher, @davidaxelrod is signaling to supporters it's OK to keep up the attacks on Ann Romney. Shame.

— Eric Fehrnstrom (@EricFehrn) April 14, 2012