{"id":5839,"date":"2011-11-22T10:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2011-11-22T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:31:17","slug":"if-all-political-ads-were-made-like-mitt-romneys-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5839","title":{"rendered":"If All Political Ads Were Made Like Mitt Romney&#8217;s Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday perennial GOP presidential frontrunner-up, Mitt Romney, released an ad that contained an unambiguously dishonest soundbite. The ad played a clip of President Obama saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;if we keep talking about the economy, we&#8217;re going to lose.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, that clip was taken from a speech in 2008 where Obama was quoting a John McCain campaign spokesman. Here is full quote in context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Senator McCain&#8217;s campaign actually said, and I quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we&#8217;re going to lose.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Political advertising is an activity that has seen more than its share of lies and deliberate distortions. But this perversion of reality will go down as one of the most brazenly disreputable misrepresentations on record. And to compound the deceit, Romney is defending his ad saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now, the tables have turned. &#8230; President Obama and his team don&#8217;t want to talk about the economy and have tried to distract voters from his abysmal economic record.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So not only does Romney have no regrets about his false representation, he absurdly asserts that Obama isn&#8217;t talking about the economy. Of course, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention knows that Obama has talked about almost nothing but the economy. Does Romney really expect voters to believe his nonsense?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if they believe Fox News then he has a chance. Fox viewers will believe anything they are told. That&#8217;s why it would be great to see this alternative version of Romney&#8217;s ad played on Fox News:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjJorv8HBU4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday perennial GOP presidential frontrunner-up, Mitt Romney, released an ad that contained an unambiguously dishonest soundbite. The ad played a clip of President Obama saying&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;if we keep talking about the economy, we&#8217;re going to lose.&#8221; However, that clip was taken from a speech in 2008 where Obama was quoting a John McCain campaign spokesman. 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