{"id":7743,"date":"2012-08-09T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2012-08-09T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:05:10","slug":"are-you-fking-kidding-me-romney-wants-false-ads-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7743","title":{"rendered":"Are You F@&#038;king Kidding Me? Romney Wants False Ads Pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t laughed this hard since the Etch-a-Sketch debacle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/09\/romney-blasts-priorities-attack-ad-spot-still-hasnt-had-paid-runs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney:<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad,&#8221; Romney said on the Bill Bennett radio show. &#8220;They were embarrassed. Today, they just blast ahead. You know, the various fact checkers look at some of these charges in the Obama ads and they say that they&#8217;re wrong and inaccurate, and yet he just keeps on running them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technology has not yet developed a method of expressing the level of shock and utter amazement produced by reading this delusional comment by Romney. ROTFLMAO does not even come close.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is incapable of experiencing embarrassment, it&#8217;s Mitt Romney. He has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/personalities\/mitt-romney\/\" target=\"_blank\">rated untruthful<\/a> 64 times by PolitiFact, and 14 of those were <em>\u201cPants-on-Fire\u201d<\/em> lies (so far). In fact, 43% of PolitiFact\u2019s findings on statements by Romney are rated as untruthful. He\u2019s downright pathological.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/romney-pathological-liar.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>His ads addressing President Obama on welfare, the economy, small businesses, etc., have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7733\" target=\"_blank\">gutted by fact-checkers<\/a>, yet he just keeps running them. And with this hilariously idiotic comment he settles, once and for all, the question as to whether he is actually an alien robot with a critical software glitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t laughed this hard since the Etch-a-Sketch debacle: Mitt Romney: &#8220;You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad,&#8221; Romney said on the Bill Bennett radio show. &#8220;They were embarrassed. Today, they just blast ahead. You know, the various fact checkers look at some of [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-20T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7711,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7711","url_meta":{"origin":7743,"position":0},"title":"Put Up Or Shut Up: That Goes For Mitt Romney Too","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/3\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The feud between Mitt Romney and Harry Reid continues to escalate. 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