Hello fellow truth lovers. Today we'll be looking at a new ad campaign set to run in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The new ad, which is an "issues" ad is being run by the group Crossroads GPS. This group is funded largely through anonymous sources, and claims to be non-partisan, which allows them to apply for tax exempt status. While we're not going to go into the intricacies behind being "non-partisan" and truly being non-partisan. The reason I placed quotation marks around the word issues earlier is because, according to some groups their tax exempt status should be provoked because their issues ads clearly guide voters to vote for Republican candidates.
Without further ado, here's the ad:
According to the ad 71% of Missouri voters voted for Proposition C, a proposition that opposed Obamacare in Missouri. This is true. While many Democrats and supporters of Obamacare suggest that the majority of voters who showed up for the vote were Tea Partiers or Republicans the fact stands that 71% of Missourians that showed up to vote did vote against "Government-Mandated Health Care."
The next claim the ad makes is that Carnahan sided with "Lobbyists, Unions, and Washington to force Obamacare on (Missourians)." The Watchdogs find this claim to be quite fishy, because there are just as many "Lobbyists, Big Unions, and Washington insiders" that are against the bill as there are for Obamacare. We find this to be a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
The last claim made by Crossroads GPS is that Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is suing the U.S. government over Obamacare. We find this statement to be true, but the following statement is neither backed up or qualified. The statement is question is this: "(he is) suing the Federal Government so we can keep our health care." Under Obamacare no one in Missouri loses health care. In fact, many individuals that did not have health care will have health care under the plan. Thus, we find this statement to be quite biased and untrue.
This ad reeks of Partisanship, and while it is certainly not the most fallacious ad being run by either party, it does spin the issues considerably. Remember The Republican Watchdogs is a NO SPIN ZONE. As always, tell us what you think in the comments or shoot us an email if you've found something you want the Watchdogs to bite at.
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