rssNRCC Bashes Democrat for Stuff That Doesn’t Exist
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 6:06 pm
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The National Republican Congressional Committee is up with a new ad against Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who won one of the closest races in the country last year. It knocks him for his “yes” vote on the stimulus package:
Pelosi’s plan wastes hundreds of millions on programs that won’t help the economy: smoking cessation, arts funding, treatment for STDs.
Arts funding did make it into the bill that President Obama signed, as did smoking cessation. But the $335 million included in the House’s first version of the stimulus package, passed on January 29, was stripped out in the Senate. If it was once part of “Pelosi’s plan,” it no longer is, because it no longer exists.
The argument that arts funding “won’t help the economy” is controversial, too, but controversial is better than outright false.
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Comment posted February 18, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
This is some truly impressive coverage. If you take a look at the ad closely you would notice that the citation on the ad was for the FIRST '”stimulus” bill that Perriello voted on. Apparently, the outright falsehood is the coverage not the ad. The mainstream media gets it wrong again. Impressive.
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Comment posted February 19, 2009 @ 12:45 am
This is some truly impressive coverage. If you take a look at the ad closely you would notice that the citation on the ad was for the FIRST '”stimulus” bill that Perriello voted on. Apparently, the outright falsehood is the coverage not the ad. The mainstream media gets it wrong again. Impressive.
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