Lawrence O'Donnell: Mitt Romney Obama Ad 'Entirely A Lie' (VIDEO)

Lawrence O'Donnell piled on Mitt Romney during his Tuesday show, saying the GOP presidential candidate had told a flat-out lie in his first television ad of the 2012 campaign.

Romney drew fire for the ad, which shows President Obama saying, "if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose," but does not point out that Obama was quoting John McCain at the time.

"Mitt Romney's first television ad is simply and entirely a lie," O'Donnell said. He brought on MSNBC's Eugene Robinson, and said Romney was "testing the media" to find out whether people would call the spot a lie. "The truth is, most of the media is going to allow those things to fly as if they are the standard-issue spin of campaigns," he said.

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Comments

[ItWasntMeReally]

03:17 PM on 11/29/2011

O'Donnell is way off base here.  The ad wasn't entirely a lie.  Mitt's hair is not a lie.  See, O'Donnell???  Don't you look bad now?

[Texamigo]

02:28 AM on 11/29/2011

Yawn. O'Donnell goes after a conservative? That's like reporting that fish swim. Please...

[Daniel Golightly]

09:56 AM on 11/29/2011

I agree that some authors need to pick on specific people less (this one has a lot to say about Romney lately), but your statement that it is somehow fabricated because of this undermines the truth that people need to be told when things are said by a person, that could end up leading the country, that are a lie. Going after the right, who increasingly partake is such behavior (all while shouting the loudest about what one or two politicians on the left have done once or twice, not all the time, which is completely out of touch with the issue) is only natural. People may like you and your commentary, but you should think about what you're saying before you say it. Bias or no doesn't necessarily make a person wrong.

[hsspringman]

06:21 PM on 11/28/2011

When the people of Mass realize that Mittens is not the person who wanted to be their Governor but who now wants to be President he will loose to President Obama. I do not think that they will vote for the far right extremes that he will go to into order to win the GOtP primaries.

[jmmoore27]

01:00 PM on 11/28/2011

yawn....next

[elemc]

01:01 AM on 11/28/2011

All who are running for political office should be called out for their lies regardless of political party affiliation. Leave partisanship out of it and watch all politicians closely.

[Boopsie2008]

12:22 AM on 11/28/2011

Mitt stepped in it big time.

We'll never be able to listen to him again without wondering what lies and distortions he's telling us.

[Oonagh]

11:43 PM on 11/27/2011

You need your mitts over your ears when Romney opens his mouth as otherwise you will feel that you are losing it.... today he will say one thing and tomorrow he will say the opposite, he will make you feel like you are losing it.. and now.. he is getting down and dirty, lying.

[CynAnne]

05:01 PM on 11/27/2011

Unlike the 'anchors' over at Cluster-Fo­­­x, at least Lawrence's reports and commentari­­­es (which are fact-check­­­ed, by the way) are based on and in reality, not ill-will and/or innuendo - those are a Cluster-Fox speciality­­­, it seems. Should Lawrence make an error, it's corrected in a timely manner (usually on-air). Cluster-Fo­­­x 'pundits', however, and their openly-par­­­tisan slant in their 'reporting­­­' have tipped their hand, and led them spiraling ever-downw­­­ard into the cesspools of yellow-rag rhetoric..­­­.where they seem perfectly content to stay.

[Marchioness]

04:19 PM on 11/27/2011

Romney is just not credible. He's back and forth on everything and seemingly desperate for this. He lost more elections than he's won. Says he's not a politician, but clearly is. Has 250 million dollars and wants a job that would enrich mostly him and his backers, and set up pension and more security on the publics dime to do what? Further enrich himself, accept a pension he doesn't need, live off the public though he clearly has enough money and property for the next romney generations, and for what? He isn't offering America anything for it. His policies don't have anything new to add. Same ole blah, blah with new hair.

[rsargerod]

03:37 PM on 11/27/2011

When politicians lie to convince the gullible voter in America we continue to get the same rhetoric from our Government in the long run...BS and more BS.

[Galene Stockwell]

03:01 PM on 11/27/2011

This is ominous, a menancing foreboding of the path, people without integrity, will take, in order to attain a "seat" at the table, when they feel their true abilities are inadequate..........when medeocrity is so evident. Mitt Romney has revealed a weakness, when he used an omission of the TRUTH, to distort part of a speech given by Obama. The statment actually made by John McCain, shows a deceitful practice of keeping the weak side of McCain's campaign from the public. Obama was pointing this out in his campaign.
For Romney to use this, with the omission lie, is evidence of how he would campaign as Republican nominee, and how he would govern as POTUS

[indamiddle]

02:48 PM on 11/27/2011

Doesn't matter People know Obama cannot run on the economy. He cannot run on his economic record. He can only run against Reagan and Bush.

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

11:20 AM on 11/28/2011

"He can only run against Reagan and Bush." Can YOU say "naive"?

[Daniel Golightly]

10:00 AM on 11/29/2011

not to mention he hasn't been completely bad for the economy. This kid has been told by somebody that he's/she's in the middle. However, spreading misinformation is not in the middle and when its negative misinformation about the left that's being spread, it becomes obvious which kind are telling him/her that he/she is in the middle. Either way its a lie to call oneself indamiddle if that person is in fact spreading misinformation like the current right-wing conglomerate.

[indamiddle]

02:44 PM on 11/27/2011

Yeah because this is the first time a political ad was misleading LOL..... Oh my O Donnell you are sure going to have a fun year. Can you say naive?

[Sanity Always Prevails]

01:54 PM on 11/27/2011

MSNBC should find another anchor to blast Romney's dishonesty, as O'Donnell is viciously anti-Mormon, thus giving the Romney campaign an easy comeback.

[booker52]

02:34 PM on 11/27/2011

Lawrence is credible, something Romney is not.

[indamiddle]

02:44 PM on 11/27/2011

To all 200 of his regular viewers...waiting for the prison show.

[CaliTLC]

02:38 PM on 11/27/2011

The GOP should find a soon to be candidate who doesn't lie.

[indamiddle]

02:46 PM on 11/27/2011

They won't have to if things stay as they are economically and judging from those "evil" Corporations who are sitting on mountains of cash and refuse to hire under this administration and Europe we are headed for another recession....Good-bye Obie.

[Marchioness]

04:20 PM on 11/27/2011

That would take forever.

[HC says]

10:28 AM on 11/27/2011

I love watching Lawrence drive the clown car around with Schultz, Maddow and Sharpton bouncing up and down in it.

[madame48]

11:51 AM on 11/27/2011

so deceiving gop voters is fine with you huh? figures...you get the ethics you value

[HC says]

07:49 PM on 11/28/2011

You gave us "If you like your health care plan you can keep it and nothing will change.". Voters haven't forgotten that lie.

[Pleneras]

01:11 PM on 11/27/2011

You just enjoy lies don't you.

[HC says]

07:50 PM on 11/28/2011

I didn't enjoy the lie, "If you like your health care plan you can keep it and nothing will change."