Sally Kahn, you’ll never work for Fox again. How in the world did you slip this by? Kudos.
Take a look at some of her other articles:Obama’s right, Americans can’t succeed without government [/li][li]Chief Justice Roberts does the right thing on ObamaCare [/li][li]It’s time we start sharing the American Dream [/li][/ul]More here
Note that she freely states that she’s “a Democrat and want President Obama to win re-election .”
I vote pretence at balance, and the next time their over the top partisanship noted, some hack will trot out this one counterexample.
Romney’s campaign says they’re not going to pay attention to fact checkers, because fact checkers are biased, but Obama should, because campaigns should be embarrassed by inaccurate ads pointed out by fact checkers.
“Our most effective ad is our welfare ad,” a top television advertising strategist for Romney, Ashley O’Connor, said at a forum Tuesday hosted by ABCNews and Yahoo! News. “It’s new information.”…
**“You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad,” **Romney said on the radio. “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’re wrong, and inaccurate, and yet he just keeps on running them.”
That’s beautiful.
It’s like they’re not aware that there words can be recorded and presented back to them.
Oh, they’re aware. They just know that half the country doesn’t care.
Upon further musing, this statement:
“You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad,” Romney said on the radio. “They were embarrassed. Today, they just blast ahead."
is completely unhypocritical. It’s simply factual. He just doesn’t bother to point out that it applies to his own campaign as well.
Given that he claims he had nothing to do with how Bain operated, had nothing to do with how his blind trust operated, so on and so forth, I’m perfectly willing to believe he has no idea how his campaign is operating.
Nah. He knows what they’re doing and is actively participating.
On Wednesday, the Des Moines Register confronted Romney about his false ads: “Iowans who consider you an honest man are asking why you would keep repeating something that isn’t true,” a reporter said during an interview with the Republican candidate.
In response, Romney argued that the Obama administration lacks the authority to waive welfare work requirements – a separate issue from the allegation in Romney’s TV spots, which simply claim that the work requirements have been dropped. The Des Moines Register pointed out that fact-checkers have said that has not actually happened.
“Fact-checkers on both sides of the aisle will look in the way they think is most consistent with their own views,” Romney said. “It’s very clear that others who have looked at the same issue feel that the president violates the provision of the act which requires work in welfare, defines what work is. He guts that, he ends that requirement for those that seek that welfare.”
Bosstone:
Given that he claims he had nothing to do with how Bain operated, had nothing to do with how his blind trust operated, so on and so forth, I’m perfectly willing to believe he has no idea how his campaign is operating.
Those nasty fact-checkers have become a real Bain-in-the-ass for Romney.
No, I’m not apologizing for that remark.
Kind of the Bain of his candidacy?
If you decide to argue with an invisible Obama on national television, you might have a stupid idea .
smithsb
August 31, 2012, 12:38pm
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silenus
August 31, 2012, 12:42pm
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Punoqllads is referring to Eastwood’s speech to an empty chair last night at the RNC.
Comedy gold!
Wasn’t the empty chair debate a tactic Robert Kennedy used back in the 60’s?
Yes, when his invited opponent did not show up for a debate.
Fortunately for Eastwood, he did locate the only opponent he might defeat easily in a debate.
pseudotriton_ruber_ruber:
Yes, when his invited opponent did not show up for a debate.
Fortunately for Eastwood, he did locate the only opponent he might defeat easily in a debate.
Except that he still lost.
bup
August 31, 2012, 1:55pm
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Well the chair kept interrupting him!
I know empty chairs. Empty chairs are friends of mine. You sir, are no empty chair.
