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Time's Scherer Blasts Obama Ad That Skews Mitt Romney's Position on Abortion

By Ken Shepherd | July 13, 2012 | 12:45

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As we noted previously and to its credit, the Washington Post has been critical of misleading Barack Obama attack ads on Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Now Time magazine has taken to fact-checking an Obama ad which hits Mitt Romney on a hot-button social issue: abortion.

Time magazine's Michael Scherer -- no Romney backer he -- slammed the Obama spot as "centered on a clear untruth," and delved into the comments the ad took wildly out of context in order to appeal to women voters on the basis of a "scary falsehood" (emphases mine):

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Here is the part that is false: “Romney backed a law that outlaws all abortion even in cases of rape or incest.” Romney has not backed a law like that.

His stated position since 2005, when he went from being a pro-choice politician to a pro-life politician, is that he supports an exemption for rape, incest and risk to the life of the mother. He said it here to the Des Moines Register in December of 2011, and here in the National Review in June of 2011. He said it all through the 2007 campaign. He even said it in 2005 in a Boston Globe Op-Ed announcing the end of his pro-choice approach to politics. “I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother,” he wrote. Not much nuance there.

But the hobgoblin of a politician opposing abortion with an exemption for rape and incest is far less scary than the hobgoblin of a politician who believes a raped woman must bring the resulting child to term. So the Obama campaign has made up a scary falsehood. They justify the falsehood by pointing to this single exchange from a 2007 debate, in which Romney says he would hypothetically like the idea of an America with a broad consensus that all abortion was a bad thing.

You may recall that in January 2010, Scherer attacked Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Martha Coakley for "gutter" politics for her misleading ads on emergency contraception targeted at Republican opponent Scott Brown.

You can read the full July 11 post here.

 

Kudos to Scherer for his fact-checking. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the major broadcast networks nor cable news networks will devote significant on-air segments to alert viewers of the untruths that are doubtless being aired during their commercial breaks.

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Obama is just outright lying now.

Submitted by c5then on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 1:03pm.

It's not even being hidden in nuance and innuendo. He is fairly certain that none of the media or at least a only a very few will even bring it up, let alone call him out for it.

 

Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it! 

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He's entered a phase now to

Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 1:14pm.

He's entered a phase now to where he doesn't even try to diguise, hide, feign, or cover up his disingenuousness, dishonesty, disdain,disrespect, or disgust of the rule of law, the Constitution, the American way.........or any code of ethics, morals, integrity, or honesty - not that he ever had any of it to begin with, but he was fooling a lot of people for quite some time. But now, as I have stated in the past - it is the double middle-finger and a sneering 'F**K YOU' to anyone who doesn't agree with him.

I've seen deat rats brought home by my own black-and-white cat Oreo (who is NOT a rainbow-colored gay Oreo like Boy Baraka) that have more class, style, and substance the the Great Pretender.

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Romney should counter with an ad that reads . . .

Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 1:35pm.

. . . "Obama believes that the government must take money from you and give it to someone else" while his 2008 interlude with "Joe the Plumber" is replayed.

It's only July and Obama 2012 is so desperate that it's pulling out all the stops. Nothing will be held back as we watch the true lying nature of the Left expose itself.

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