A few of our most affluent Individuals and corporations are investing billions in an effort to secure a president they believe more likely to cater to their needs…and their interests and needs are not the same as ours, so catering to them is (often) at odds with helping average Americans by ensuring a strong economy that is producing living wage jobs, ensuring justice and security.
One of those affluent Americans, Karl Rove, is an expert at
misleading and distracting and his new series of TV ads are, again, filled
with inaccurate statements. His hope is
that if he just keeps repeating these false claims, because he has $25 million to silence the rest of us, that we will eventually just accept his false claims as common sense.
The Obama campaign put out a short response to these ads on
youtube today. But just like big money ads, we cannot just take a campaign's word for it...and we do not have to...
www.Factcheck.org has evaluated the Rove commercial and found
the claims to range from outright false to misleading exaggerations, other than
the claim that Obama had not lived up to his promise to cut the deficit in half
(though he has made $1 trillion is spending cuts and we have witnessed an uncooperative Congress refuse to combine cuts with new revenues).
www.Factcheck.org finds the ad's claim that Obama has not cut taxes
on middle class to be FALSE; the ad's claim that Obama had not helped homeowners
to stay in their homes as FALSE; the claim that you will not be able to keep
your own health care plan to be FALSE.
www.Politifact.com also finds the various claims in the ad to be ‘mostly false.'
Do not just sit back and let big money redefine common sense...use www.factcheck.org and other fact check resources every day...and then share this information with facebook or twitter friends. Factchecking sites make it easier to be informed, and provide a do-able first step toward refusing to let big money mislead us.
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