Lie of the Year
2December 13, 2012 by Qina Liu
Seeing that we talked about Mitt Romney, political ads, and Politifact during our last class’ presentations, I thought you guys would appreciate this ad, which Politifact deemed the “Lie of the Year.” The ad appeared on TVs in Ohio.
Lie: Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China” at the cost of American jobs.
To check out the complete Politifact article, click here.
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It’s so crazy how this ad can label all of Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney as “false”. How does a campaign even release this commercial thinking that it is not going to receive backlash and overwhelming proof discrediting it? Making a false statement at a debate is one thing. But when it is premeditated content that is edited seen by numerous eyes before it is released to the public, then it turns the entire stream of information that the campaign releases into complete pollution -who can trust a campaign that consciously releases such lies?
I think I saw this video on someone else’s blog too and Its absolutely crazy. I know that campaign ads have different rules when it comes to content. However, this ad is slander. It is completely untrue and baseless, and it blows my mind that this can happen. We live in a country that says we have the freedom of speech…but just like all freedoms it has limits. For example you cannot yell fire in a crowded theatre because it might cause someone harm when they are being evacuated, also because the statement is FALSE! If that applies to all american people then statements such as these should also be illegal because are the candidates not the american people? Its completely ridiculous and although we have textbooks that tell us to question the validity of commercials like these, not all americans who vote know to question ads like these.