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steve2470

(37,455 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 03:23 PM Aug 2012

FACT 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.html

WASHINGTON — Sounding the keynote for his party’s national convention, Chris Christie promised that GOP nominee Mitt Romney will lay out for the American people the painful budget cuts it’ll take to wrestle the government’s debt and deficit woes under control.

The combative New Jersey governor’s 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 nation’s 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
So much of Satan's army in one place Angry Dragon Aug 2012 #1
The Romney campaign did give a disclaimer before the Convention even started... liberal N proud Aug 2012 #2
+1 and they are following this policy BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #3
If you "make your case" by lying, what does that say about your case? And you? n/t gkhouston Aug 2012 #4

liberal N proud

(60,289 posts)
2. The Romney campaign did give a disclaimer before the Convention even started...
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 03:27 PM
Aug 2012

Romney Campaign: "We’re 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
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 03:36 PM
Aug 2012
“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.”

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.
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