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RedStateLiberal

(1,374 posts)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:26 PM Aug 2012

Proof that Romney is a HUGE hypocrite!

[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.3077em 0.3077em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Romney slams Obama's 'misleading' ads amid criticism of his own attacks on welfare policy[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3077em 0.3077em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"](CBS News) NEW YORK--Mitt Romney on Thursday took umbrage at what he called inaccurate and misleading ads run by the Obama campaign and an allied super PAC, even as his own campaign continues to run an attack ad that has been deemed "pants on fire" false by a fact-check organization.

Asked by conservative radio host Bill Bennett about the "lowball nature" of an ad being run by the pro-Obama Priorities USA Action super PAC, which tries to tie the presumptive nominee to a woman's cancer death, Romney said fact-checking groups have called the ad misleading.

"The various fact-checkers look at some of these charges that are in the Obama ads and they say that they're wrong and inaccurate and yet he keeps on just running them," Romney said in the radio interview. "You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why campaigns either pull ad, they were embarrassed. Today they just blast ahead."

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Despite his own rhetoric decrying false and misleading advertisements, Romney's campaign has shown no sign that it will remove its own factually challenged ads or stop making similar charges on the stump. Instead, Romney continues to make the argument that Obama is pushing a "policy of removing work from welfare," which he says will moving the country toward "a culture of dependency."
Read More:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57489994-503544/romney-slams-obamas-misleading-ads-amid-criticism-of-his-own-attacks-on-welfare-policy/

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