A Conundrum
July 31, 2012 - by
Mitt Romney’s running an ad that shows Barack Obama saying, If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that, and it sure looks and sounds and smells like the truth but Obama says there’s not a word of truth in it – that Romney edited a piece of video of his speech, took what he said out of context, and made an ad that’s just plain wrong.
And this time, for once, it looks like Obama’s right: He fumbled and stumbled in that speech but when he said the word ‘that’ in the line ‘you didn’t build that’ it sure looks like he was talking about roads and bridges and not businesses.
But, when it comes to ads, Obama has his own problems – like the ad he ran that The Washington Post gave “4 Pinocchios.” Which leads to a conundrum: Here we have two accomplished men, both graduates of Harvard, both, no doubt, able to look at an ad and tell if it’s true, and who both, respectively, looked at their ads and told their campaigns, ‘Go on – air it.’
A Conundrum
July 31, 2012/
Mitt Romney’s running an ad that shows Barack Obama saying, If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that, and it sure looks and sounds and smells like the truth but Obama says there’s not a word of truth in it – that Romney edited a piece of video of his speech, took what he said out of context, and made an ad that’s just plain wrong.
And this time, for once, it looks like Obama’s right: He fumbled and stumbled in that speech but when he said the word ‘that’ in the line ‘you didn’t build that’ it sure looks like he was talking about roads and bridges and not businesses.
But, when it comes to ads, Obama has his own problems – like the ad he ran that The Washington Post gave “4 Pinocchios.” Which leads to a conundrum: Here we have two accomplished men, both graduates of Harvard, both, no doubt, able to look at an ad and tell if it’s true, and who both, respectively, looked at their ads and told their campaigns, ‘Go on – air it.’