{"id":7098,"date":"2012-05-14T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2012-05-14T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:19:27","slug":"mitt-romneys-impotent-response-to-obamas-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney&#8217;s Impotent Response To Obama&#8217;s Campaign Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7093\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier today<\/a>, the Obama campaign released an ad that criticized Mitt Romney&#8217;s failed record of job creation while at Bain Capital. Now Romeny&#8217;s camp has weighed in with their own ad that seeks to rehabilitate Romney&#8217;s reputation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q2w7iXazNso?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My earlier article noted the rapid response attack on Obama&#8217;s ad by Romney&#8217;s comrades at Fox News. I also noted that their attack was a pathetic effort that failed to make their case against the President. If they are interested in learning how a credible rebuttal is constructed, they should pay attention to the way <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/05\/14\/483972\/mitt-romney-steel-dynamics-vide\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThinkProgress has responded<\/a> to Romney&#8217;s ad. Firstly, ThinkProgress noted that the Romney ad&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;implies that the plant would not have been built without Romney\u2019s assistance. Steele Dynamics &#8216;almost never got started,&#8217; the narrator says. &#8216;When others shied away, Mitt Romney&#8217;s private-sector leadership team stepped in.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported at the time (via Nexis), that Bain was just one of eight financiers for the project \u2014 hardly the lone white knight.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They went on to reveal that in addition to the numerous investors in the business, it also was not the free-market miracle that Romney implied. In fact, it received millions of dollars from local and state funding, including revenue generated specifically by raising taxes to support the new company. In other words, just about every point that Romney made was rendered moot by a recitation of the facts.<\/p>\n<p>I would add to this analysis that, while the citizens featured in Obama&#8217;s ad were all identified, those in the Romney ad were all anonymous. For all we know they were actors, because there is no way to certify their identities or their glowing accounts. Which is further evidence that Obama&#8217;s ad team produces documented facts while Romney&#8217;s people pump out propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported earlier today, the Obama campaign released an ad that criticized Mitt Romney&#8217;s failed record of job creation while at Bain Capital. Now Romeny&#8217;s camp has weighed in with their own ad that seeks to rehabilitate Romney&#8217;s reputation. My earlier article noted the rapid response attack on Obama&#8217;s ad by Romney&#8217;s comrades at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[260,866],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-mitt-romney","tag-thinkprogress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Qu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7093,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7093","url_meta":{"origin":7098,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation&#8217;s Impotent Attacks On Obama&#8217;s Campaign Ad","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/14\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Obama campaign released a new ad today that points out Mitt Romney's failed record on job creation as the CEO of Bain Capital. 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The focus of the article was a practice known as bundling where supporters solicit their family, friends, and colleagues, to make a contribution to a candidate's campaign.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8080,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8080","url_meta":{"origin":7098,"position":4},"title":"Fox News Desperation Grows: As Romney&#8217;s Prospects Decay, Anti-Obama Attacks Accelerate","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/25\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It must be frustrating to be a Fox News producer or editor these days knowing that your professional mission is to advance the campaign of Mitt Romney for president, while Romney himself seems to be working as hard as he can to sabotage any possibility of victory. 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