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Obama’s new Ohio ad: just making stuff up at this point.

It's like these people don't do any vetting at all.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 10th, 2012 at 10:00 PM  | 

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Let me present to you the amazing amount of scrutiny that apparently needs to go into a Barack Obama campaign ad, just to understand what it actually means.

  • Level Minus One. This is the scrutiny that is done by the creators of the ad itself (that is to say, none at all). Summary of said ad (second video at this Hot Air link): this Brian Slagle fellow from Ohio was in the auto industry; he got laid off; but he has a job, now; and thank God for that nice Obama fellow, who made it all possible.
  • Level Zero. This was the scrutiny done by ABC News. They discovered that the company that Mr. Slagle works for now (Johnson Controls) apparently frittered away a lot of its stimulus money then; is actually laying off people now; and is currently being investigated for employee health violations. As in, lead poisoning. In other words; it’s not that great a job, and there’s some question about whether its employees are better off with the company still being in business. I mean. Lead poisoning.
  • Level One. This is the scrutiny done by The Weekly Standard: in short, actual fact-checking. It turns out that Mr. Slagle has been employed by Johnson Controls… since 2006. This information could be found via the arcane method of “looking up Brian Slagle on Facebook:” the information has since been removed, but TWS took screenshots, of course. Translation: Brian Slagle did not actually get a new job from Obama’s stimulus program. They want you to think that he did, but he didn’t*.

All of which means that the actual message of the ad is “I had a job in the auto industry until about six years ago… and then I got a new job. Which is apparently one with a bad environmental and fiscal record, but that doesn’t matter! That’s because Barack Obama really, really needs me to get on the screen and tell you how great it is for me as a spectator to see the auto industry get bailed out. So I figure that I’m golden… oh, crud, Facebook. But… they promised me that Republicans couldn’t read!”

Which, admittedly, doesn’t really sing as a campaign message.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*This is, by the way, what campaigns do when they don’t actually have anything useful to run on.

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  • PaladinLostHour

    I hereby move Redstate make this a regular offering:

    The Moe Lane Defcon Level Minus One Obama Ad of the Week

    (you know they’ll be multiple slam/scam ads in weekly contention, once those overseas campaign donations start rolling in)

  • http://MichaelHarrington.org Michael Harrington

    I agree.

    Only ever so often he needs to get to level 3… so we can know if dudes like this are also Dem Operatives on payroll for four years or some such.

  • http://www.tooncesthecat.wordpress.com tooncesthecat

    NT

  • http://boldcolor.blogspot.com/ Paula

    It gets even better. It’s all <a href='TEXT‘>Gov. Kasich’s fault (July 2011):”Ohio Governor John Kasich was on hand as Johnson Controls announced it’s investing $138.5 million at the battery plant in Holland.

    Fifty new jobs will be added to start production next year of a new type of battery using ?start-stop’ technology.

    “This is new technology. This is the future of how we’re going to drive our cars. It is jobs for a generation”, said Kasich, who says the state investment package is around $12 million, including a sales tax exemption.

    “The sales tax exemption allows them to buy whatever they need and to be able to save the cost. You have to keep costs down if you’re going to have businesses,” said Kasich.”

    And from the Toledo Blade:

    “In a speech to about 150 plant employees and UAW representatives, the governor said Johnson Controls is receiving about $12 million from the state in sales tax credits and research and development incentives. The plant is also receiving about $12.5 million in local tax incentives, said Rob Nichols, press secretary for the governor….Mr. Guillen added that in addition to adding 50 jobs, the expansion would give work to about 800 construction workers.”

  • http://boldcolor.blogspot.com/ Paula

    Here’s the link to the story of Kasich’s tour of Johnson Controls.

  • davesinsanantonio

    Very funny!!!

  • guidvce

    of the ad…needs to continue. As usual, the lefts is trying to blow smoke and use the mirrors this election season…to cover up the incompetence and true nature of what their goals are.
    The rating system seems to be effective in this case. I have no doubt it can be used on all the ads in the future.
    Good job, Moe.

  • jpmhofct

    It may not be exactly lying but noone can ignore the fact that this story reflects on the tactic most visible from the Obama advocates.
    Make it up!
    There isn’t much they can point to with a positive outcome so lets just
    “blow smoke” and “spin” out as much “phoney baloney” as can possibly be passed on by the biased media.

  • eheassler

    The ad is typical of what obama himself does. He has a track record of making stuff up to use as “examples” when he’s speaking on a particular topic. Case in point: He used his mother as an example of how insurance companies won’t cover serious illnesses. The truth came out that his mother’s insurance company did pay for her care and she did not spend the last year of her life in misery because of having to battle them to pay as he claimed. It was an illustration, but not true, much like the composite figures in his books which should now be recategorized as fiction. Until proven otherwise, the impostor obama’s entire life is fiction. Who is he and where is he from?

  • funwithknives

    and this should give you thought, Moe.

    You could be FAMOUS! , big guy. A Real Celebrity.

    A Huge Fricken Deal……….

    ….and We knew you first……. oohhhh……

  • funwithknives

    The diabetic foot amputation fable
    57 states we have
    But to tell the truth one of his claims did actually come true, and we see it practally every day.

    He is surely Transparent, and we’re looking right through him…….

  • http://patriotpowerplay.blogspot.com/ mirac777

    is exposed. Ya the guy belongs in the make believe world of Hollywood. Fit right in with the Left coast phony, self-important pimps of perversion today.

  • ariyosef

    INTELIGENT LIFE MAY SEEL SO CLEARLY…

    SADLY, THE AVERAGE VOTER HAS TROUBLE SEEING DAYLIGHT FROM DARK..

    THIS AD, THIS ADMIN, IS DARK, VERY DARK, AND AS HITLER DID, THEY WILL LIE THEIR WAY TO VICTOR AND
    MORE VICIOUS DARKNESS TO COME.

    OHIO IS, A KEY STATE FOR bho.

    THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF A BILLION DOLLAR
    “lie THEM to the polls” .
    Sheep … to the slaughter….
    IGNORANT, IMMATURE, AND CLUELESS…

    BOO HOO FOR US ALL.
    Our intelligence will not produce victory nor protect us anymore than
    the hill billy who is buying ammunition.

    Glad the hillbilly is on the front lines.
    Cannon fodder does buy time…
    We can only hope…
    and pray.

    HEAVEN HELP US ALL!!!

  • annie54

    and will always be a Buckeye although I live in another state.

    I give my fellow Buckeyes more credit than to believe Obama’s crap. The Ohio State Buckeyes showed him on May 4 that they aren’t blind followers.

    GO BUCKS!

  • jaykali

    It can go either 2 ways:

    1. Mitt was right – these companies needed to go through a structured bankruptcy. They would have still been in business and Chrysler would have still gotten bought by a foreign automaker. This happens all the time, it’s happened to airlines, GM would not have gone out of business. And we wouldn’t have thrown billions of taxpayer dollars at these companies to bail out union workers.
    2. Obama ‘saved’ the auto companies – Mitt would have let them go bankrupt and we wouldn’t have any domestic auto makers left in this country. Millions of people would have lost their jobs.

    Mitt needs to explain his position well, hopefully it will resonate, his explanation doesn’t fit as well on a bumper sticker though.

  • Spartan4Life

    The taxpayers did. And if it serves my memory correctly it was actually liberal GW Bush who authorized the GM bailout. Besides, taxpayers have lost about $25B on GM alone. That’s about fifty Solyndras for those keeping score.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    I want my name – and much more importantly, the name of this site – to be associated by our political class with a flickering of the eyes from side to side and a lowered tone. I don’t want them to be afraid, mind you: just… prudent.

  • Jack_Savage

    I Don’t Want To Be Famous
    I Want Others To Be Prudent

  • jaykali

    It was definitely Obama’s call to send more money to the auto makers. You raise a good point in that Bush did send some loan guarantees their way. I don’t have the numbers in front of me but I think in 2009 the auto makers got a lot more money after they pleaded with Congress for another bailout.

  • nhbuckeye

    too, but I live in NH now. I also give Ohioans a lot of credit for being able to see through the BS. Lots of Dems there but they are traditional Dems, not those freak Progressive types eat, drink, and sleep the lies they tell themselves.

  • Ausonius

    Possibly it is being shown in the “union” areas of Dayton, Toledo, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.

    Here we have seen an agit-prop ad about “clean energy” jobs “created by ” MAObama over the last years, with dots popping up all over a map of the U.S., the dots apparently representing the 37 jobs he has created in 3+ years via clean energy.

    Then on comes a grim and mean looking picture of ROMNEY!!! And we are told how he ships jobs overseas and shuts down factories, with the implication that under ROMNEY grandma and grandpa will soon be booted out of the nursing home and the orphans sent to a Georgia chain-gang.

    The level of audience intelligence assumed by the ad is insulting.

  • funwithknives

    **Moe Lane, A Man to be Prudently Fearful Of**
    {Brought to you by that exemplar of couth,manners and intelligence, RedState}

    But we knew you first………

  • Jack_Savage

    He may get both the fame he does not seek as well as the prudence of those who cross our path.

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