Romney gets a "Pants On Fire!" for his first ad. Way to go, Serial Liar!

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Says Barack Obama said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose."

Mitt Romney on Monday, November 21st, 2011 in a television ad



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The clear implication is that Obama believes that his economic record is so bad that he will lose in 2012 unless he can steer the conversation away from the economy.

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So the comment is drastically different than the way it's portrayed in the Romney ad. Obama was actually saying that his opponent’s campaign three years earlier had said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." That context is not included in the Romney ad -- and leaving it out sends a profoundly different message.

Our ruling

We certainly think it’s fair for Romney to attack Obama for his response to the economy. And the Romney camp can argue that Obama’s situation in 2011 is ironic considering the comments he made in 2008. But those points could have been made without distorting Obama’s words, which have been taken out of context in a ridiculously misleading way. We rate the Romney ad’s portrayal of Obama’s 2008 comments Pants on Fire.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-obama-said-if-we-keep-talking-abo/

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1. That SOB will say ANYTHING, ethics don't even slow him down. nt

[jenmito]

2. I wish the Dems. would run a counter-ad just showing that part of Romney's ad, then show

what Obama REALLY said by showing the clip of his full sentence, then end the ad by saying Romney is not only a flip-flopper on every issue, but he's a liar (maybe in more diplomatic words). They could also say something like, "If we can't trust him to be honest in an ad, how can we trust him to tell us the truth in ANYTHING he says?"

[lamp_shade]

3. Just posted the link to my facebook.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Ground ball right through the wickets

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5. Ha - Romney got another Pants on Fire tonight for saying Pres. Obama has apologized for America.

@politifact Romney just said Obama has apologized for America. We've rated that Pants on Fire. http://bit.ly/rgMsyE