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Last week, after the Romney campaign released its first ad attacking our failed president’s failed leadership of his failed economy, you would’ve thought the former Massachusetts Governor closed the ad with, “I’m Mitt Romney and I approve of eating Obama’s children.”
The ensuing media storm over the ginned up accusation that the ad took Obama out of context lasted two days, and still this week I hear left-wing pundits disguised as objective pundits talking about how “it might hurt Romney’s credibility.”
It was pure nonsense and merely a way for the MSM to create the phony outrage needed to protect Obama from a pretty effective salvo against his failed record — which is what they intend to do throughout this campaign. The Romney ad was merely making a point in attributing those words to Obama, not playing gotcha. The only ones playing gotcha her were Obama’s Media Palace Guards.
But take a look at the ad above, which was just released by the Democratic National Committee. The DNC actually does take Romney out of context in trying to make it sound as though he was in favor of Obama’s failed stimulus when he most certainly was not. When you’re talking about out-of-context within the realm of intentionally attempting to mislead, there is no better example.
ABC’s Jake Tapper was one of the only members of our journalist class willing to make some real noise over this:
From this, the DNC cherry-picks, “I think there is need for economic stimulus” and portrays Romney as having backed President Obama’s stimulus bill, which at that point in time didn’t even exist.Yesterday our friends at Politifact rated this claim in the DNC ad as “Mostly False.” When asked how it justified the use of this quote, a DNC official said that “Mitt Romney supported a stimulus approach nearly identical in size and scope to what President Obama eventually passed and now he’s lead primary voters to believe he never supported any stimulus at all.”
Read the whole thing. No, Romney didn’t.
The story got even stranger when the DNC responded to Tapper’s story by publicly attacking him. Later they would remove the attack from their Web site.
One week ago, the corrupt media set a rigid standard whereas anything that even grazes “out of context” will result in a two-day narrative that questions the credibility of the culprit. This week, that standard’s not only abandoned in the face of a much more glaring example but one that was followed up with an attack on one of the media’s own.
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