A heavy dose of critical (albeit sick) satire from The Onion today begs the question — Where do you draw the line when it comes to political attack ads?
CHICAGO—With campaign rhetoric becoming increasingly heated and both presidential nominees releasing more attack ads, a new 30-second spot from the Obama campaign this week accuses his opponent Mitt Romney of committing the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey.
Titled “He Did It,” the advertisement asks if anyone can truly remember where Romney was the night of the child’s murder, and whether the U.S. populace wants a president capable of strangling a little girl and dumping her body in her parents’ basement.
President Obama appears at the end of the advertisement to approve the message.
“I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.” “Ultimately, voters need to know who they’re getting with Mitt Romney: a job- and child-killing businessman who is so deceitful he won’t release his tax returns or admit to a senseless murder that shook the nation to its core.”
Scheduled to run in multiple swing states, with significant airtime in Ramsey’s home state of Colorado, the ad criticizes Romney not just for killing the prepubescent girl, but for going to extreme lengths to cover it up. It also states that Mitt Romney paid former school teacher John Mark Karr to falsely come forward as the murderer, and accuses the former Massachusetts governor of being a sex offender.
Over a silhouette of Romney walking away from the Ramsey mansion—blood dripping from his hands—the commercial’s narrator asks, “If Mitt Romney kept the murder of JonBenét a secret from the American people, what else is he hiding?”
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dumoudan
Aug. 10, 2012 at 12:35pmOwebama is making another ad telling the American people that Romney was responsible for Germany bombing Pearl Harbor. They have been told by a reliable nameless source.
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OneTermPresident
Aug. 10, 2012 at 10:07amHow low can Obama go… no one really knows.
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nhman53
Aug. 12, 2012 at 8:56amThis is SATIRE, it’s a JOKE article in “The Onion”, which is a satirical “news source”!! It’s plainly stated here, but you poor, dumb, easily-led, non-thinking lemmings believe it’s a REAL ad, put out by the Obama campaign. It’s NOT! Think before you comment. READ CRITICALLY!!! Glen Beck is an IDIOT, so are his followers!
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petemg
Aug. 9, 2012 at 5:56pmThis is sick if the ad is true. And if it is true then Obama has stooped to an all time low. If Obama did this and approved it do we want to have a president like this. Have more respect for the dead.
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FEMALL
Aug. 9, 2012 at 5:11pmI have an anonymous source that said Harry Reid lived in Nevada when the murder occurred RIGHT ACROSS THE STATE LINE in Colorado. Where there’s smoke….
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marcus_arealius
Aug. 9, 2012 at 4:38pmI have evidence somewhere (I’ll have to find where I put it) that Harry Reid paid a hollywood makeup artist to make him look like Mitt Romney when Reid killed JonBenet. The artist was found dead in a dry river bed outside of Las Vegas in 1996 shortly after the murder investigation got under way. Now lemme see where I put those photographs….
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