Lying on the Campaign Trail
MSNBC collected some misstatements (read lies) the different presidential candidates made about their record. Watch it. Quite interesting to see that the candidates all mislead (or lie to) the public (video below the fold).
In defense of Romney: he didn’t call it amnesty himself… someone else said it. More: most conservatives do consider it amnesty, so Pat Buchanan is right, he should’ve said “yes it was.”
The sad reality is, of course, that most voters don’t check what the candidates say. The media have to spell it out for them. And if the media don’t do that, voters won’t know. It’s that simple.
Interesting: Obama isn’t mentioned.
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Gee imagine that. The MSM does not point out any democratic gaffes except Hillary’s. Once again this is an example of the MSM trying to steer voters to a candidate, while bashing any opposition that has arisen to Obamas throne.
Even more distressing is that the only gaffe they show is of Hillary speaking about Obama.
I repeat you are not allowed to make fun of, ask questions of, suggest that, or indicate that Senator BO, hmm mabey he should do right guard commercials, is in anyway supposed to stand up for or support his ideals, visions and plan for America.
He has become the Heir to the throne and no one should dare question this. Thus sayeth the MSM.
The words "I’m Mitt Romney and I approve this message." comes to mind.
Yup. Buchanan is right though: soon enough they’ll turn against him. When? At the moment he does something they don’t like or at the moment they think it’s time for a controversy.
Admittedly a weak defense.
I rarely watch any of the cable network news anymore, but every clip I’ve seen of Dan Abrams makes me think he’s far from being an impartial journalist. While I ended up agreeing pretty much with the analysis of these clips, I agree with the commenters here who are pointing out selection bias in which candidates’ distortions are being pointed out.
Overall, it’s much better to go to a source like Factcheck.org. They seem to be fairly impartial; I think most lies end up getting reported to them and they don’t seem to shy away from posting about them no matter who the candidate is, or to try harder to defend some of the candidates based on a preference for them.