Mitt Romney is running an anti-Gingrich television ad in Florida, featuring a clip of Tom Brokaw from NBC's World News Tonight. Brokaw is unhappy, but for all the wrong reasons:
NBC News and Tom Brokaw are loudly objecting to the Mitt Romney campaign's use of footage from the 1990s in an ad blasting Newt Gingrich over his House ethics charges.
Brokaw, whose statement noted he was speaking on his behalf, said, ‘I am extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad. I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign.’
He should be more concerned that the clip was (at best) taken out of context and is grossly misleading. But, of course, that's the last thing on his mind. What mystifies me, though, is how the Romney campaign could imagine that Republican voters will take seriously an anti-Newt news story from the late 1990s. Hello? Anyone home?
(I did laugh, though, over that bit about not wanting to be ‘compromised for political gain’. Shit, we can't have that!)
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