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In context: Baldwin's "damn right" statement
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/02/context-baldwins-damn-right-statement/"In Context" is an occasional feature of PolitiFact Wisconsin. It is intended to give readers the context of a statement that has received widespread attention.
Television ads attacking Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin have swamped the air waves in the past two weeks.
The most recent ad, produced by Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a conservative political group founded by Karl Rove, uses a slew of unflattering photos and images of Baldwin while criticizing her as being "too extreme for Wisconsin." The ad is the second aired by the third party group which made a massive, $2 million ad buy in the campaign.
Among the most memorable moments: a video snippet where, during an unidentified speech, a fired-up Baldwin declares "You’re damn right!" In the ad, it is used to amplify this image: A rubber stamp with the words "Too Extreme" slamming down.
Crossroads GPS also used the "damn right" snippet in another ad attacking Baldwin that aired earlier last month.
So where does this video of Baldwin, a seven-term House member from Madison, come from? The answer lives on YouTube.
