Ad By Crossroads, Karl Rove's Outfit, Yanked Off Air For Being False (UPDATE)

WASHINGTON -- An ad by Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS was yanked from rotation on a Montana cable show because it made claims that the network deemed false.

Recently a number of ads by the well-funded conservative outfit have been declared misleading and false, but the spot targeting Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is apparently the first pulled from the air. The Associated Press reported that other outlets are still running the ad.

In it, Tester is accused of supporting an Environmental Protection Agency rule -- a rule that was never in fact proposed -- to regulate farm dust. But the vote that the ad cites actually had nothing to do with dust or the EPA; it was a procedural vote on a measure aimed at cracking down on China for manipulating currency.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had hoped to bring up the anti-EPA amendment -- which targeted regulation of soot, not farm dust -- but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) never even let it get to the floor.

Because of that, Cablevision's Optimum cable service dropped the ad, the AP reported.

Crossroads GPS, which is affiliated with American Crossroads, has also been heavily criticized for ads in several other states, including spots attacking Democratic Senate contenders Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts and Tim Kaine in Virginia.

Greg Sargent of the Washington Post highlighted Friday how the Warren spot "falsely insinuates" that Warren supports violence by Occupy Wall Street protesters. And PolitiFact rated as "mostly false" claims made against Kaine. The Kaine spot also accused him of running a deficit as governor of Virginia, but Virginia state law prohibits deficits.

A spokesman for Crossroads GPS could not immediately be reached for comment.

UPDATE: Friday 7:17 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. -- Nate Hodson of Crossroads said in defense of the pulled ad, "It was a very small cable system. The four largest broadcast stations in Montana reviewed the facts supporting the ad and will continue airing it."

He said later, "We are communicating with the cable system and expect that the ad will be back up and running on cable soon."

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Comments

[Victor Lynn Avera]

02:49 PM on 12/30/2011

I like Karl Rove, he lets me know who to elect into Government by attacking them.

[EJavaM07]

10:43 AM on 11/15/2011

How about we retake our government from these masters of bogosity:

1) Make all elections publicly financed, with each candidate given exactly the same amount of money at the start (it's also a good test of how each candidate is w/ money to have to handle a relatively small amount), and ...

2) Make it perjury for any candidate to lie about any issue, both before and after an election.

[LeeCalif]

12:10 AM on 11/24/2011

How bout if we take down the PR firms. Sounds better to me.

[JDShipley]

10:53 PM on 11/14/2011

Didn't miss anything not reaching a spokesperson: They'd lie anyway.

[Redrose999]

07:40 AM on 11/13/2011

Crossroads, Interesting name, isn't that the place where you make deals wit the devil? I wonder if Mr. my moral values serve the devil so I can be greedy Rove picked it on purpose?

[saortolani]

05:43 AM on 11/13/2011

Karl Rove should still be behind bars for his role in the Valerie Plame incident.

[deebastet]

12:54 PM on 11/13/2011

Makes you wonder why he was never tried.

[don34]

03:57 PM on 12/23/2011

You guys are laughable. Even when your giving the truth about Valerie and who outed her. You and the others here still don't get it. Which means you don't acknowledge the truth went hear it. How spurprising!

[idj57]

08:40 PM on 11/12/2011

Karl Rove is showing why he should be facing Bribery, Intimidation and Corruption charges. Selling lies to win elections is not our American way. This is the type of behavior which caused us to invade Iraq, engage in Torture, Warrant less wire tapping and corruption and bribery of our elected officials. If a candidate can not stand on his/her own merits and be truthful, we have lost our way in America. Some may think I am "out of touch or say, this is politics". My question: How much more suffering should the American People endure because of Sleazy and Corrupt Politics?! Have we not been punished enough in America?

[Trevor Schmidt]

07:03 PM on 11/12/2011

If every station pulled ads off the air for lying, neither political party would be able to run ads.

[deebastet]

12:54 PM on 11/13/2011

Now that would be a good thing.

[MrCS]

12:11 PM on 11/14/2011

A very good thing indeed. They might actually have to tell us their position on the issues rather than running down their opponent.

[JDShipley]

10:53 PM on 11/14/2011

Love to bathe in cynicism?

[BoudiccaBlanc]

06:39 PM on 11/12/2011

If Rove is connected with it; it can't be good!

[ausmth]

06:24 PM on 11/12/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnE83A1Z4U here is another whopper you will enjoy.

[ausmth]

06:16 PM on 11/12/2011

Full liberal protection mode is on! I can't post links to similar ads dems have run.

[ModerateRepub]

06:40 PM on 11/12/2011

Because they don't tell lies of that magnitude?

[ausmth]

07:16 PM on 11/12/2011

A lie is a lie or does the end justify the means in liberal land? There are a lot of dirty hands casting stones on this thread.

[Joel Mendez]

08:24 PM on 11/12/2011

full liberal protection mode: AKA: people are actually thinking.

[ausmth]

09:37 PM on 11/12/2011

In a vacume

[Zeb Pike]

06:07 PM on 11/12/2011

Kudos to the one small outlet that stood up for facts over cash. If it comes from Rove and or Crossroads anything, you can make the fair assumption that it's false. Those facts have never valued truth, only power.

[Genders]

05:49 PM on 11/12/2011

The GOP hate the republic, the beast is what they call it. They are Tories, and are taking your very right to vote away. Only Tories vote for the GOP/Tea. Ike was the last good GOP and he would be a Kucinich Grayson CPC progressive! That's who you need to vote for in the dem primaries. The Obama DLC are enablers of the GOP agenda . They are Reagan democrats, moderate republicans AKA: New democrats, pragmatic Progressive, Blue dogs, New American Foundation, Progressive Policy Council, Third Way.

Then vote for the Dems in the general, including Obama, because they are the lesser of two evils by a large measure.

[ausmth]

06:17 PM on 11/12/2011

I wish the mods would allow me to post some of the dems lies.

[ModerateRepub]

06:42 PM on 11/12/2011

Just make up your own about the Democrats as you usually do, all false of course.

[Genders]

09:01 PM on 11/12/2011

I do too, but try phrasing them without obscenities or nutty stuff. Like birth certificate stuff...

[Satchamosowner2000]

07:07 PM on 11/12/2011

What are Tories?

[Genders]

09:01 PM on 11/12/2011

Search and yeah shall find....

[wro2996725]

05:58 AM on 11/13/2011

the daughter of Aaron Spelling

[Chichiplus]

05:31 PM on 11/12/2011

Karl Rove getting caught in a lie---------the day must end in a Y.

[jwald1]

05:23 PM on 11/12/2011

Wow a cable company with ethics! I hope this catch's on

[realpolitic]

05:12 PM on 11/12/2011

Wow, Karl Rove is caught lying! Who would have thunk it?

[garboop2]

05:57 PM on 11/12/2011

Surprise, surprise!

[mrshep]

09:18 PM on 11/12/2011

Carl Rove is only lying, if he is talking or producing something