Mitt Romney is a Goddamn Liar

Posted on November 23, 2011 at 12:07 pm by Bob Cesca

This new Romney commercial is an atrocity:

Did you catch that? The president said, “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” Pretty damning — the president, in 2008 during the collapse, suggesting that he has a weak economic plan/message.

Only, he didn’t say that. He was quoting John McCain. In its full context, the president said, “Sen. McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, ‘If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose’”

What makes it all worse is the Romney campaign is standing by the lie.

Romney senior New Hampshire adviser Tom Rath tells CBS News the ad is “exactly what we want.”

Shameful. And Romney isn’t even the nominee yet.

It’s going to be a hell of a year.

Adding… ThinkProgress cut together a little quid pro quo for the Romney campaign:

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  • http://www.intoxination.net intoxination

    When you don’t have anything to attack the President on then you must make shit up!

  • Lynn Cornelius

    excellent clip

  • Ned F

    I was just listening to NPR and they were discussing campaign commercials and used this Romney ad as an example of false and selective statements taken out of context. In the next breath in the “both sides do it” meme, they played that same ThinkProgress takedown. But, they left out that this was a sort of parody about taking things out of context and not a true campaign ad. I didn’t know that until I saw this post.

  • GrafZeppelin127

    Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone made a campaign ad showing a clip of the opponent quoting someone to make it look like the opponent said the thing himself.

    This is a textbook example of “taking something out of context;” so textbook, in fact, so simplistic and obvious, so transparent and easily-debunked that I always thought campaign admakers would stay away from it. Usually the absence of context is more subtle, if no less insidious (Pelosi’s “we need to pass the bill to know what’s in it” quote leaps to mind), but this is just ridiculous. As deceptive and dishonest as campaign ads and the editing of opponent quotes included therein can be, this crosses into new territory as more than just a quote-out-of-context; it’s, as Bob put it, a goddamn lie.

    Is it just the lack of shame on the part of the campaign, the knowledge that people will believe and repeat it anyway, or a more general lack of respect for the intelligence of the electorate?

    The only way a campaign could stoop any lower than this would be to actually manufacture a quote by editing together disconnected bits of audio to manufacture a quote that the candidate never said at all. It’ll happen, you watch. If the GOP has learned anything in recent election cycles, it’s that they can get away with anything.

    • Treading_Water

      CGI is good enough these days that they don’t even need actual video to do it, everything could be created in a computer.

  • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

    Things are so polarized, and people only watch the MSM ‘news’ programs that parrot their own beliefs, so this will be an article of RW faith in about… oh, prolly an hour ago.

  • eljefejeff

    Romney is so blatantly dishonest and disingenuous, not that republicans care about that stuff. But as far as the crowd who sees him as the only one who’s electable, commercials like this and his constantly changing views(based upon whom he’s pandering to at that particular moment) are why Romney will not even be nominated.

  • http://twitter.com/TomValleras Tom Valleras

    I do believe that political ads should be screened by some type of governing board to eliminate outright lies and fabrications

  • D_C_Wilson

    It kills me that they don’t even care that every one knows that they were lying. Utter shamelessness is now the norm.