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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFACT CHECK: Making their case at the convention, GOP speakers play loose with reality
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fact-check-making-their-case-at-the-convention-gop-speakers-play-loose-with-reality/2012/08/29/b43e15d6-f20a-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_story.htmlWASHINGTON Sounding the keynote for his partys national convention, Chris Christie promised that GOP nominee Mitt Romney will lay out for the American people the painful budget cuts itll take to wrestle the governments debt and deficit woes under control.
The combative New Jersey governors hopeful words, however, flew into a headwind of reality: In nearly a year of campaigning, Romney has yet to detail how he would do that.
Former senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum became the latest Republican to stretch the truth in taking President Barack Obama to task over his administration supposedly waiving work requirements in the nations landmark welfare-to-work law.
A closer look at some of the words spoken at the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla.
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FACT CHECK: Making their case at the convention, GOP speakers play loose with reality (Original Post)
steve2470
Aug 2012
OP
The Romney campaign did give a disclaimer before the Convention even started...
liberal N proud
Aug 2012
#2
If you "make your case" by lying, what does that say about your case? And you? n/t
gkhouston
Aug 2012
#4
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. So much of Satan's army in one place
liberal N proud
(60,289 posts)2. The Romney campaign did give a disclaimer before the Convention even started...
Romney Campaign: "Were not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021218227
BumRushDaShow
(126,624 posts)3. +1 and they are following this policy
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. Its 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.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romney-campaign-admits-propaganda-ad-campai
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romney-campaign-admits-propaganda-ad-campai
So they are deploying a completely content-free, fact-free, and throw-anything-you-can-out-there-to-see-what-sticks type of campaign. The actual methodology is done on the cheap so that the donations that come pouring in can enlarge the pot for themselves from the Ponzi scheme that they have created.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)4. If you "make your case" by lying, what does that say about your case? And you? n/t