Romney To Release Misleadingly Edited Obama Video As An Ad

[Lakhota]

By Benjy Sarlin

Mitt Romney’s campaign will bring a deceptively edited clip of President Obama’s “you didn’t build that line” to a much wider audience. The campaign is taking an abridged version of the video and expanding it into a full ad buy.

The amount of the buy for “These Hands” is still unknown. The ad features Obama discussing the importance of transportation, education and other government investments for the private sector, but selected lines are cut up and spliced together to make it appear as if he’s delivering one continuous passage:

If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The sentences left out in Romney’s edit clearly indicate that Obama was discussing public services, not the businesses themselves. The quotes cut out of the ad are in bold:

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.​

More: Romney Turns Misleadingly Edited Obama Video Into Ad Buy | TPM2012

 

[Lakhota]

This is typical of Romney dishonesty.

 

[tjvh]

Attack Ads... Obama: OK
Romney: Not so much.
Got it.

 

[occupied]

By now everyone has has been exposed to the full quote, only the republican base chooses to deliberately and ignorantly think he was attacking American business rather than discussing the much hated (by them) concept of social responsibility and the value of collective action. Not going to be nearly as effective as he believes.

 

[Zxereus]

 

[buckeye45_73]

This is typical of Romney dishonesty.

What's funny is the guys that built this country the founding fathers are demonized by liberals, so any part of his speech I can own you with. dont forget to kiss his ass before you go to bed tonight, k?

 

[buckeye45_73]

Oh and the internet was created by the military, but hey you hate that and want to defund it too, lakhota you really make it too easy

 

[tjvh]

Oh and the internet was created by the military, but hey you hate that and want to defund it too, lakhota you really make it too easy

Al Gore was in the Military?

 

[buckeye45_73]

Oh and the internet was created by the military, but hey you hate that and want to defund it too, lakhota you really make it too easy

Al Gore was in the Military?

He was, he was a writer in vietnam, that had nothing to do with his daddy senator though, only republicans are rich and get favorable treatment.
Plus he had to do something, he was a horrible soldier, had a m16 pointed at his head looking down the barrel....ie he's a moron

 

[Papageorgio]

This is typical of Romney dishonesty.

So how does it differ from Obama typical Obama dishonesty?

 

[buckeye45_73]

This is typical of Romney dishonesty.

So how does it differ from Obama typical Obama dishonesty?

It has some truth, unlike Obama dishonesty!

 

[rdean]

Could someone share with me an ad attacking Romney that's "misleading".

He really did say, "Less police, less firemen and less teachers".

He really did say, "He likes to fire people".

He really did take money from nearly a dozen companies when he said he wasn't working there.

He really did try to take credit for saving the auto industry.

The stuff Romney did, he really did.

 

[Papageorgio]

Obama in or out of context, said a really ignorant and thoughtless statement and in an election year he will pay for his stupid, thoughtless comment.

 

[Lakhota]

Oh and the internet was created by the military, but hey you hate that and want to defund it too, lakhota you really make it too easy

Military? Got any credible proof? Anyway, the military is government, funded by taxpayers.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Could someone share with me an ad attacking Romney that's "misleading".

He really did say, "Less police, less firemen and less teachers".

He really did say, "He likes to fire people".

He really did take money from nearly a dozen companies when he said he wasn't working there.

He really did try to take credit for saving the auto industry.

The stuff Romney did, he really did.

well context matters....and Obama doesnt like personal success...we all knew this...he just proved us right.

 

[Zxereus]

 

[Papageorgio]

Could someone share with me an ad attacking Romney that's "misleading".

He really did say, "Less police, less firemen and less teachers".

He really did say, "He likes to fire people".

He really did take money from nearly a dozen companies when he said he wasn't working there.

He really did try to take credit for saving the auto industry.

The stuff Romney did, he really did.

So the left taking Romney out of context is okay, yet when Obama says something stupid, in or out of context, you are okay with it.

 

[Lakhota]

Oh and the internet was created by the military, but hey you hate that and want to defund it too, lakhota you really make it too easy

Al Gore was in the Military?

Yes, and in Vietnam!

 

[buckeye45_73]

Oh and the internet was created by the military, but hey you hate that and want to defund it too, lakhota you really make it too easy

Al Gore was in the Military?

Yes, and in Vietnam!

yeah I said that already, boy you are a dipshit

 

[Papageorgio]

Al Gore was in the Military?

Yes, and in Vietnam!

yeah I said that already, boy you are a dipshit

I knew that when he started this thread crying and crying about an ad calling Obama on the carpet for his stupid statement. Now, he will be crying for days.