Empty Seats Lie Came From Romney Campaign

[Dick Tuck]

Yep, it's a clear lie of omission that the right wing jackasses were pushing.

Here's the arena when Obama was speaking:

From Politico:

The story was accompanied by a picture of the inside of OSU’s enormous Jerome Schottenstein Center, which is used for basketball and hockey games. The picture, supplied by the Mitt Romney campaign, showed a slice of the stadium with hundreds of empty seats.

Anyone who uses Drudge as a source is a complete idiot.

 

[Truthmatters]

somehow they just want all those "not real Americans" to disapear

 

[BlackAsCoal]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

 

[Dick Tuck]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

 

[hjmick]

Waaaaa...

Welcome to the silly season we call "elections."

 

[BlackAsCoal]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

They are ALL liars .. including Obama.

Drudge is to news what the WWE is to sport. It isn't.

Romney is going to lie as long as his lips can move.

My point was that was some truth to the empty seats argument. There is not the same enthusiasm for Obama as there was before voters knew what they were getting.

 

[WillowTree]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

They are ALL liars .. including Obama.

Drudge is to news what the WWE is to sport. It isn't.

Romney is going to lie as long as his lips can move.

My point was that was some truth to the empty seats argument. There is not the same enthusiasm for Obama as there was before voters knew what they were getting.

what has come over you my man?

 

[hjmick]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

They are ALL liars .. including Obama.

Drudge is to news what the WWE is to sport. It isn't.

Romney is going to lie as long as his lips can move.

My point was that was some truth to the empty seats argument. There is not the same enthusiasm for Obama as there was before voters knew what they were getting.

Actually, Drudge is pretty much just links to other news sources these days. In fact I would bet that if one had clicked on the link Drudge had provided with the photo and the headline about empty seats it would have taken the reader to some newspaper's site. It's been a long time since Drudge broke any real news.

 

[Truthmatters]

Bac has always been angry at Obamas admin.

he at least uses facts to make his arguements.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

They are ALL liars .. including Obama.

Drudge is to news what the WWE is to sport. It isn't.

Romney is going to lie as long as his lips can move.

My point was that was some truth to the empty seats argument. There is not the same enthusiasm for Obama as there was before voters knew what they were getting.

what has come over you my man?

:0)

I'm doing something wrong?

Please, help a brother out. :0)

 

[kwc57]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

Hey Dick Lick, you do realize that Drudge doesn't report news don't you. it's merely a clearing house of links to news and opinion sites.

 

[naturegirl]

Well, I hope you read the whole story. Here's the last paragraph............LOL

But were the empty seats a worthy story? (Ignore the question mark.) Yes. To some small extent.

Crowds at big-time political events don’t just happen. Campaigns create them. It can take weeks of organizing, weeks of phone calls, weeks of meetings. It is a major effort.

It is also a dry run for Election Day. You identify your people (and those you hope will become your people), you solidify your hold on them, you get them out to the event to applaud madly.

That is the enthusiasm factor that crowds demonstrate. That is the organizing factor that crowds show.

A crowd of 14,000 is a good crowd. And if the Obama campaign had not predicted an “overflow” crowd at a huge arena, or if it had sprinkled some monster trucks throughout the place, people would be singing its praises today.

Read more: Empty seats haunt President Obama - Roger Simon - POLITICO.com

 

[koshergrl]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

Omg, this is HEINOUS!

Meanwhile, here's the article you're having a cow over...

"
A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney's campaign spokesman Ryan Williams reveals sparse attendance. The above image, according to Williams, was taken during the President's first official campaign speech. "



Hmm..sparse attendance. I think only 4/5 full qualifies as sparse attendance. No lie there.


"According to the Toledo Blade, the venue for Obama's rally seats 20,000 but "there were a lot of empty seats."



No lie there, either.


I'm having a tough time finding the lie you are carping obsessively about. Maybe the photo wasn't taken during the first speech...probably it was and more people trickled in.


The article comes from Breitbart. Retards like you think that Drudge writes the news on his site. He uses stuff from all over...including far, far left sources.


Obama Launches Campaign in Empty Arena

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yep, it's a clear lie of omission that the right wing jackasses were pushing.

Here's the arena when Obama was speaking:

From Politico:

The story was accompanied by a picture of the inside of OSU’s enormous Jerome Schottenstein Center, which is used for basketball and hockey games. The picture, supplied by the Mitt Romney campaign, showed a slice of the stadium with hundreds of empty seats.

Anyone who uses Drudge as a source is a complete idiot.

That picture's a fake, where's Obama grey hair?

 

[Sarah G]

Yep, it's a clear lie of omission that the right wing jackasses were pushing.

Here's the arena when Obama was speaking:

From Politico:

The story was accompanied by a picture of the inside of OSU’s enormous Jerome Schottenstein Center, which is used for basketball and hockey games. The picture, supplied by the Mitt Romney campaign, showed a slice of the stadium with hundreds of empty seats.

Anyone who uses Drudge as a source is a complete idiot.

Romney doesn't even want to know the crowds Obama will be getting. It will depress the shit out of him.

 

[Dick Tuck]

There were 4300 empty seats in an arena that held about 20,000 .. thus, roughly a fifth of the seats were empty.

Those are the facts.

Is the Obama Administration concerned about the empty sets after they put so much work into filling the venue?

Absolutely they are.

The reality is that Obama is not as popular with independants or even the left as he once was.

This election is not a given.

Drudge claimed the arena was less than half full. He used a photo, given him by the Romney campaign, taken quite awhile before the start of the event. This is a lie, that right wingers on this board were repeating. That's the point. It's not whether you believe or don't believe Obama is going to beat Romney. It whether Romney is going to continue to use lies in his attacks.

Hey Dick Lick, you do realize that Drudge doesn't report news don't you. it's merely a clearing house of links to news and opinion sites.

The photo used still came from the Romney campaign, as did the narrative. . The story was a lie, and Drudge has failed to post a correction.

Oh, and you're full of shit. Drudge writes his own headlines, with spin. He also publishes some of his own idiotic opinion pieces.

You really ought to stick with ad-hominens, like "Dick Lick". That seems to be the only thing you're able to do in debate.

 

[koshergrl]

The only person who told a lie is you, DT.There's no lie in that article, as I showed by actually quoting and linking it.

Perhaps you'd like to quote and link the lie?

 

[Defiant1]

What the Obama campaign is really worried about is the drastic drop in the number of fainting spells and spontaneous orgasms.

 

[Dick Tuck]

The only person who told a lie is you, DT.There's no lie in that article, as I showed by actually quoting and linking it.

Perhaps you'd like to quote and link the lie?

Drudges headline claimed that the arena was less than half full. That's a lie.

The photo provided by the Romney campaign showed a half full stadium, but was taken well before the event began. That's a lie of omission.

Politico debunked your lie.

Drudge was not impressed. “OBAMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN HALF EMPTY STADIUM,” he screamed in large letters atop his webpage.
The headline linked to Breitbart.com, which had an even more startling headline: “OBAMA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN IN EMPTY ARENA.”
The story was accompanied by a picture of the inside of OSU’s enormous Jerome Schottenstein Center, which is used for basketball and hockey games. The picture, supplied by the Mitt Romney campaign, showed a slice of the stadium with hundreds of empty seats.
The arena was certainly not “empty” nor even “half empty,” and it was not clear that the president was even on stage when the picture was taken.

Read more: Empty seats haunt President Obama - Roger Simon - POLITICO.com

 

[Dick Tuck]

What the Obama campaign is really worried about is the drastic drop in the number of fainting spells and spontaneous orgasms.

Romney makes John McCain look charismatic.