Romney Campaign: "We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."

[Cali_Democrat]

Romney Keeps Changing Rules On What's Allowed In Campaign Ads
Posted: 08/28/2012 1:47 pm

Mitt Romney's made it pretty clear that he intends to keep making hay over the trumped-up claim that the Obama administration is tacitly weakening welfare-to-work requirements by granting states waivers that facilitate greater "flexibility administering it so they can experiment with ways to improve the number of people making the jump from government assistance to jobs."

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But for all the effectiveness, Romney's attempts to paint Obama as a dismantler of welfare reform have famously run afoul of the fact-checking industry, to which Romney isn't paying a scintilla of mind. As Ben Smith reported earlier today, Romney ad strategist Ashley O'Connor told an ABC/Yahoo News forum today, "Fact-checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."

In many ways, this dovetails with a previous pronouncement from the Romney campaign on what everyone should expect from it, in terms of ads. As "a top operative in Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign" told the New York Times' Thomas Edsall back in December 2011:

“First of all, ads are propaganda by definition. We are in the persuasion business, the propaganda business…. Ads are agitprop…. Ads are about hyperbole, they are about editing. It’s ludicrous for them to say that an ad is taking something out of context…. All ads do that. They are manipulative pieces of persuasive art.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/romney-campaign-ads-obama-ads_n_1836807.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012

[liberal N proud]

1. I think they have done a fine job of proving that

They have not let a little thing called truth stop them from telling a lie yet.

[ananda]

2. ROFL

!

[Blue Idaho]

3. Cus you can't let the truth get in the way of the propaganda.

How unpatriotic of you...

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "We are in the...propaganda business"

Um, no duh.

As many, including Sen. Moynihan have said - "You are entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts."

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Dang fact checkers, always getting in the way of lies. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Sounds like the opening of an old science fiction show

"We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity."

They're content to live in their own fictional reality.

[JaneQPublic]

7. Let's see, the GOPers' list of things with liberal bias now includes...

1. Fact-checkers
2. The Mainstream Media (excluding FoxNews)
3. The Interwebs (excluding WorldNutDaily and similar wingnut sites)
4. The U.S Weather Service (for "faking" the Tampa hurricane reports during the RNC)
5. Reality (or, as Stephen Colbert has said, "reality has a strong liberal bias&quot
6. Gravity (a suspicion all falling objects drift slightly to the left)
7. The printed page (sure, we read the words from left to right, but to move forward, you always have to return to the left side!)

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Did he really say that or is this from The Onion?

??

[JaneQPublic]

9. It's getting very hard to tell parody from truth. (nt)