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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 11:40 AM Aug 2012

Lies, Damn Lies and G.O.P. Video

"But why stop there? Why not go whole hog and just make stuff up?"


http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/lies-damn-lies-and-gop-video/


“We did build that,” has already been established as one of the more dishonest political memes in a campaign season undisturbed by shame. The Republicans took a clumsy phrase from an Obama speech in July, in which the president pointed out that most American business successes have been assisted by infrastructure, education or incentives underwritten by the government. The Republican spin-masters whipped this into a preposterous claim that Obama denied American entrepreneurs any credit for their creations. The fact that this slogan has been thoroughly debunked has not kept it from being the defining theme in Tampa.

Until Tuesday’s opening festivities you could call this a particularly egregious example of the familiar political game of ripping things out of context. (As in, “I like to fire people.”) A little distortion. A bit of oppo jiu-jitsu. But why stop there? Why not go whole hog and just make stuff up?

“Today,” the GOP proudly announced in a press release, “the Republican National Convention unveiled three ‘These Hands’ videos profiling small business owners in Colorado, Nevada and Ohio who built their business themselves, a clear contrast to President Obama’s claim that small business owners didn’t build their businesses.”


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Each of the videos, by the way, continues with the lament of a hard-working businessman – a Colorado farmer, the owner of a Nevada candy company, and the president of an Ohio electric company – each profoundly insulted by what Obama … um, never actually said. Or maybe the Republicans found the only three businessmen in America who have never made use of the interstate highway system or the Internet, never benefited from farm price supports or a government-backed student loan, never enjoyed a business-related tax break.

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Lies, Damn Lies and G.O.P. Video (Original Post) Scuba Aug 2012 OP
The GOP is so WEAK. They have to cut and paste video and build a convention on a LIE. progressivebydesign Aug 2012 #1

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
1. The GOP is so WEAK. They have to cut and paste video and build a convention on a LIE.
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 12:30 PM
Aug 2012

This goes beyond egregious to criminal. The best thing the Obama Campaign can do is to release an ad with the President's speech.. with that entire paragraph in tact. Either rolling as text, or his actual speech. Call them on their bullshit, and call them out. Let people know how utterly devoid of ethics these people are... that they actually had the desperation to build a convention on a LIE.

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