{"id":7884,"date":"2012-08-28T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2016-12-02T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:12:39","slug":"romney-campaign-advisor-says-that-facts-have-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"Romney Campaign Advisor Says That Facts Have ‘Jumped The Shark’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone paying attention to this campaign already knows that Mitt Romney has little respect for facts. He has repeatedly mangled the truth in order to advance his campaign and to slander President Obama. And it isn’t just a few policy disagreements that are shaded for effect. Romney is a full-blown pathological liar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now the Romney campaign has stepped forward to confess their aversion to facts<\/a>. In a discussion about Romney’s ad that falsely claims that Obama’s welfare policy “guts welfare reform,”<\/em> Romney’s pollster Neil Newhouse said…<\/p>\n

“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers [who have]<\/em> jumped the shark.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not surprising that the Romney camp is hostile to fact-checkers since his welfare ad was excoriated for dishonesty. Romney’s ad was given four Pinocchios<\/a> by the Washington Post and was rated a “Pants on Fire” lie<\/a> by PolitiFact. In fact, he has been rated untruthful<\/a> 67 times by PolitiFact, and 14 of those were \u201cPants-on-Fire\u201d<\/em> lies (so far). More than 40% of PolitiFact’s findings on statements by Romney are rated as untruthful.<\/p>\n

Clearly Romney’s campaign strategy<\/a> is to make Obama respond to a barrage of lies for the next two months. It’s the only path left for Romney who has decided to cast off the facade that he’s concerned with running a campaign that represents reality. And, as Stephen Colbert insightfully observed, reality has a well-known liberal bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone paying attention to this campaign already knows that Mitt Romney has little respect for facts. He has repeatedly mangled the truth in order to advance his campaign and to slander President Obama. And it isn’t just a few policy disagreements that are shaded for effect. Romney is a full-blown pathological liar. Now the Romney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-7884","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-23a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8646,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8646","url_meta":{"origin":7884,"position":0},"title":"PolitiFact’s Lie Of The Year: The Romney Campaign’s Ad On Jeeps Made In China","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, the proclivity for deception and dishonesty as practiced by Republicans and right-wing media has earned them the honor being awarded \"Lie Of The Year\" by the fact-checkers at Politifact. 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