FactCheck.Org Catches Obama Ad Using Dishonest Images

Ken McCracken  •  August 15, 2008

Stop the ACLU points to a report from FactCheck.org on Obama’s ad on McCain’s “low road campaign”. The ad features McCain walking with a serious looking group of men that the voiceover announcer calls “lobbyists”.
According to FactCheck:

…none of the folks pictured are actually lobbyists. Not even former lobbyists. And two of them are Secret Service guys.

Imagine the horror! John McCain is hanging out with the men actually assigned to protect his life! How nefarious can he be?

When we asked the Obama camp about its use of an image lacking any actual lobbyists, former or otherwise, spokesman Tommy Vietor told us, “I think everyone knows which lobbyists are running his campaign.”
If so, everyone should also know they’re not pictured in this ad.

This is change you can believe in! If the facts don’t fit the narrative, Obama will change the facts to fit! Or at least the images…
Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Good blog post…

  • pparets

    Dougee:

    all ads would be run through a fact-check

    … leaving television – as we know it – pretty much commercial-free!

    I’m with you on this one, Dougee!! :)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    TERRY ANDERSON, A BLACK LOS ANGELES TALK RADIO HOST, WENT DOWN A LIST OF THINGS SENATOR OBAMA HAS SAID THAT AREN’T EXACTLY CORRECT; as in fact check….

    1.) Selma March Got Me Born – NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 – Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google’Obama Selma ‘ for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)

    2.) Father Was A Goat Herder – NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

    3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter – NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

    4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya.

    It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law.

    Your half-brother, Abongo Oba ma, is Odinga’s follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone.

    Obama’s cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians’ homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter..

    Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.

    5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian – NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers [the ritual prayer practiced by Muslims in supplication to Allah] at 5am according to her own interviews.

    Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.

    Read on…..

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Were I king, all ads would be run though a non partisan fact check before airing.

    Here, King! Here, King!

  • http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

    Were I king, all ads would be run though a non partisan fact check before airing.

    Well, it’s a good thing that you are not king so you can’t take away out freedom of speech. Everyone wait for Barack Hussein Obama to call FactCheck.org a racist company/website. I guess it’s what happens when you challenge the savior!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    And, of course, the trolls would rather focus on minutiae than the substance of the dishonesty of their candidate.

    How about another meaningless picture realitybittenbob, in lieu of argument?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    Not Exactly….check this out

  • Hannitized

    Everyone wait for Barack Hussein Obama to call FactCheck.org a racist company/website. I guess it’s what happens when you challenge the savior!

    Dougee,

    Save your guessing for people who are stupid enough to listen. We know what your opinions are on the savior and it sort of ruins your credibility to be taken seriously on anything.

    You know, now that I think about it, keep talking, all of your buddies probably are stupid enough to listen to you.

  • http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

    Save your guessing for people who are stupid enough to listen. We know what your opinions are on the savior and it sort of ruins your credibility to be taken seriously on anything.

    Well hannitized, if you were inferring that my views on the Savior Jesus Christ gives me no credibility I am fine with you not being tolerant like the rest of your liberal loons. Jesus himself told us in the Bible that people would hate us because they first hated Him. If you were meaning that Obama is really the savior then you have problems that I can’t even begin to comprehend or address.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Actually Joel, that was a drawing.

    Image and video hosting by TinyPic

    A picture’s worth a thousand words….

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    And, of course, the trolls would rather focus on minutiae than the substance of the dishonesty of their candidate.

    Now now Spelling Bea, don’t disparage yourself because you have a Rainman addiction to correcting everyone’s typing mistakes.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    FactCheck.org?

    Ok then. Let’s go!

    FactCheck.org:

    McCain misrepresents Obama’s tax proposals again. And again, and again.

    Were I king, all ads would be run though a non partisan fact check before airing.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    It might actually be an image.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    A picture's worth a thousand words….

    <img src="http://inlinethumb47.webshots.com/43950/2261305240103122255S425x425Q85.jpg&quot; alt="Barak & Michelle">

  • Hannitized

    I believe guys like Bat and Pilgrim would say….SMACK!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    Fact check ? Obama constantly reinvents himself by obfuscating his history….and the facts…

    The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002
    Excerpt from Ed Lasky

    As a state legislator in Illinois, Senator Obama chaired the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

    A nurse, Jill Stanek, appeared before the committee to lobby for the committee to approve the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, which would have defined a baby born alive as a result of an abortion to be a human being deserving legal protection.

    At the time, there were news reports in Illinois of such babies being left to die. Ms. Stanek related her own story of seeing such babies being taken to a soiled utility room and left alone to die".

    Obama, the committee chairman, joined with his fellow Democrats to defeat the bill.

    This was despite the fact that the bill was drafted to ensure that a woman's right to choose was protected.

    Nevertheless, he argued and voted against the bill stating – wrongly — that the bill was unconstitutional and posed a peril to the viability of Roe v Wade.

    On March 30, 2001, Obama was the only state senator to speak in opposition to SB 1095. The bill was carefully limited, its language unambiguous.

    It applied only to premature babies, already born alive. It stated simply that under Illinois law,

    "the words ‘person,' ‘human being,' ‘child,' and ‘individual' include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development."

    There was no conflict between this bill and the right to a legal abortion.

    An identical bill — the Born Alive Infants Bill — was passed by the U.S. Senate 98-0 with support from even Senator Barbara Boxer, the Senate's leading pro-choice-champion, who stated that the bill did not pose any threats to the Roe v. Wade decision.

    Obfuscating his history

    The candidate has tried to obfuscate his history involving abortion and his excuses for opposing the Born Alive Infants Protection Act wither when scrutinized.

    His website claimed the Illinois bill lacked the language "clarifying that the act would not be used to undermine Roe v. Wade" and claims he would have supported the federal Born Alive Infants Bill had he been in the United States Senate.

    Senator Obama has justified his strenuous objection to the Illinois bill by claiming that differences from the federal bill are the reason.

    This claim is false. The Federal legislation and the Illinois legislation were in fact virtually identical (see Obama's Abortion Distortion.)

    Jill Stanek has been doing outstanding investigative work on this issue.

    Lately, the campaign has provided an equally spurious claim to excuse his voting against the bill: that "the born alive" principle was already enshrined in a 1975 law.

    His colleagues state that he never raised this concern when he was an Illinois legislator. In any case, the 1975 law would not apply to non-viable infants born alive.

    According to Paul Linton, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, the 2003 bill was a response to the question,

    "What duties are owed to a non-viable child born alive?" The bill sought to guarantee comfort care for non-viable infants similar to the care that would be provided to any terminally ill adult.

    "Many of these babies lived for hours after birth," Susan T. Muskett, legislative counsel at the NRLC, writes in an email.

    "Are these babies medical waste, or persons protected by the Constitution?

    Obama's reaction was to consider them non-entities under Roe v. Wade until they were 'viable,' even when they were gasping outside the mother."

  • pparets

    <img src='http://i38.tinypic.com/r2tjb4.jpg'&gt;

    …worth more than words…

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    Actually Joel, that was a drawing.
    realitybased bob

    In this case, dumb-ass, it's a picture of that drawing….double-smack…game, set, match….

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    A picture's worth a thousand words….

    Actually Joel, that was a drawing.

    Actually, rbb it was a picture!

    pic·ture /ˈpɪktʃər/ Pronunciation Key – Pronunciation[pik-cher] Pronunciation Key –
    Pronunciation noun, verb, -tured, -tur·ing.
    –noun
    1. a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.:

    I believe guys like Bat and Pilgrim would say….SMACK!

    Actually, I believe guys like Bat and Pilgrim would say that rbb and Hannitized are ON SMACK! Heh.

    Between the two of you trolls, you can't afford a dictionary? Or the attention span to look up the word online before you embarrass yourselves? (More than you already do!)

  • Bat One

    Nevertheless, he argued and voted against the bill stating — wrongly–that the bill was unconstitutional and posed a peril to the viability of Roe v Wade.

    "A peril to the viability of Roe…" ??? How about the peril to the viability of the baby?

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