SHAMELESS: Romney Campaign Doubles Down On Wildly Dishonest Ad

[Denise21]

Source: huffingtonpost

WASHINGTON -- The Mitt Romney campaign is defending its controversial ad that misleads viewers into thinking that under President Barack Obama's watch, Chrysler is moving production of Jeeps to China.

The ad, which has sparked a torrent of complaints and fact checking, was initially caught being aired in the Toledo, Ohio, television market, though the Romney campaign had not announced it publicly. The television tracking service TVEyes shows that it is now airing in Youngstown, Ohio, as well.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/romney-jeep-ad_n_2039898.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. Willard has been lying his whole life why should he stop now??

[shanti]

14. "Lying for the Lord"

that's what he does....

[Angry Dragon]

16. Willard just lies for himself

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. Which state is he legally registered to vote?

[Angry Dragon]

24. New Hampshire .... I think

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. His tax returns said Belmont, MA?

or were the tax returns before he moved?

[Angry Dragon]

26. Found this

Ann and Mitt lived in Belmont, Massachusetts for over thirty years. Although that home was sold in 2009, as of August 2011, the Romneys still own several homes.
•Beachfront home in La Jolla, California. They want to enlarge the existing $12 million 3,009-square-foot Spanish-style home by bulldozing it and replacing it with a 11,062-square-foot mansion.

•Townhouse in Belmont, Massachusetts. This is their main residence.


•Vacation home valued at $10 million on Lake Winnipesaukee's shore in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.


http://marriage.about.com/od/politics/p/mittromney.htm

also this: In June 1965 Mitt asked Ann to marry him when she was 16 years old. They had only dated for a few months.

and: Andrew Sabl: "Ann was widely mocked for this at the time. I don’t dissent from the mockery. Her idea of her and Mitt facing “not easy years,” having “no income,” “living on the edge” as “struggling students,” was that the couple had had to face college with only sale of stock to sustain them. By Ann’s own account, the stock amounted to “a few thousand” dollars when bought, but it had gone up by a factor of sixteen. So let’s conservatively say that they got through five years as students—neither one of them working—only by “chipping away at” assets of $60,000 in 1969 dollars (about $377,000 today)."

[mac56]

2. They said they weren't going to let fact checkers run the campaign.

By golly, they were right.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Ironic that that is the one thing they did not lie about. - nm

[mac56]

10. Defense by technicality?

"The exact language of the ad may fall within the boundaries of truth, but the message it imparts is fanciful and misleading."

[sinkingfeeling]

3. It goes well with their ad on the $716 Billion out of Medicare and that Obama was

dropping the work requirement for public assistance one. In my book, it's one lie and you're out and here he has 3 blatant ones.

[2Design]

5. not just tv ads

my mail box has been filled with their lies from the top down to the lowest running politician about the 716 and how willard and ryan will save medicare - unfortunately they are followed like a cult

[wordpix]

23. let's hope Mitt's millions spent on print media can be recycled for toilet paper

[JBoy]

6. Emboldened by a neutered media.

[DallasNE]

7. I Get So Tired Of Hearing The Following

This is a defense by technicality. The exact language of the ad may fall within the boundaries of truth, but the message it imparts is fanciful and misleading

This ad does not fit "within the boundaries of truth", not even technically.

LIE: something that misleads or deceives (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionay, 10th edition).

FALSE: adjusted or made so as to deceive. Lacking naturalness or sincerity (Same source)

In other words if the intent is to decieve then it is false and a lie and lies outside "the boundries of truth".

[SoapBox]

8. Dirty, Dirty Mittens!

...I'm so over this flilthy fucker.

[99th_Monkey]

13. Too Funny. One of my sons used to play with a band called "Dirty Mittens"

and I hadn't associated it with Rmoney until I saw your post.
Thanks for a good laugh.

[SoapBox]

19. ok...so that is funny.

And I didn't even know about the band!

[99th_Monkey]

20. Yeah .. they're based in Portland OR

My son Ben is the guitar player to far right <-but not politically>

The woman singer has been seen leaping from the stage up onto a table, then from
there onto another table (in venues where there are tables, not captured in this video),
without missing a beat, and has knocked out at least one tooth doing so.

Welcome to Portlandia.

[Plucketeer]

9. Since I CAN'T and WON'T

has someone been watching FOX to see if they're parroting this line of bull? If FOX is "hands off" about it, that would make it radioactively phony! After all, Obama's auto industry sending jobs to China - you'd think FOX would be ALL OVER that kinda news.

[mac56]

15. You know the drill. IOKIARDI

It's OK If A Republican Does It.

[Rob H.]

11. He certainly has a habit of doubling down

First the "apology tour" lie (which he repeated all the way through to the third debate) and now this. It's staggering to me that people are stupid enough to vote for this lying assclown. Do they think he's magically going to start telling the truth on Inauguration Day?

[Vidar]

12. Nicely ironic that Mitt so perfectly peresonifies the prince of lies.

[bearssoapbox]

17. I saw the ad today and I live NW of Dayton, OH. I yelled at the tv.

No, I cursed loudly at the tv. My cat took off and didn't come back for several minutes.
I've had some teabagger relatives tell me that President Obama is showing his true colors and paying back China by having Chrysler move the Jeep production to China.
Even though I have shown them proof that is not happening, they still believe it.
But then a few still believe that he is a 'muslin' and one says Hawaii wasn't a state when President Obama was born.
And they sure don't tolerate people that disagree with them.
For being christians they sure are foul mouthed when someone disagrees with them.
Jeep going to China is like Ohio only got 400 or 1800 jobs, according to Gov. Kashits, depending which speech you listened to, from the auto bailout.
Some of those self same relatives are still working because of the bailout and they still think that President Obama is trying to wreck the country. Oddly enough though, they are happy to cash their paychecks.
They weren't so vocal or in-your-face about their racism until Obama was nominated for president. They said that America
wouldn't elect a "black man" for president. (They didn't say black man) Talk about them going off the deep end in Nov. 2008!
One last thing.
Thank goodness for DU. I've been a long time lurker. Don't know why I waited so long sign up and don't know how much I will post but Du has been a great place for info and sanity when the gop,wingnuts, and the rest of the right wing insanity tries to convince the world that their lies are the truth.

Is there a brown-nose smilies? If not then I'll just say hi.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Welcome to DU, bearssoapbox!

I'm glad you decided to join, and to make your voice heard. We can always use new intelligent folks around here!

I didn't know how much I would post either, but after 7 plus years, I'm heading for 100K!

I hope to see you posting more, and good luck with your teabagger relatives too...



Nope, no brown-nose smilies, lol!

[renate]

22. welcome to DU!

[jsr]

27. The Mormon bishop can tell no lie