Published in 2005
WaPo:
Editors’ note: This posting contains multiple, serious factual errors that undermine its premise. Mitt Romney is not using “Keep America American,” which was once a KKK slogan, as a catchphrase in stump speeches, as the posting and headline stated. In a YouTube video that the posting said showed Romney using the phrase, Romney actually used a different phrase, “Keep America America.” Further, the video that the blog posting labelled “Mitt Romney 2012 Campaign Ad” is not actually a Romney campaign ad. The video itself states “Mitt Romney does not actually support this ad.” The posting cited accounts of Romney saying “keep America American” at an appearance last week. Independent video from the event shows him saying “Keep America America.” The Post should have contacted the Romney campaign for comment before publication. Finally, we apologize that the posting began by saying “[s]omeone didn’t do his research” when, in fact, we had not done ours.
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Romney’s isn’t the first campaign mishap that came out of a borrowed slogan. While a candidate’s political slogan can be key to an effective campaign — as President Obama’s “Yes We Can” slogan was — many politicians have shown by example how precarious slogans can be if you don’t do your research.
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When former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich announced his presidential run earlier this year, he launched his official campaign Web site using the slogan “Win the future.” It was a phrase used in some variation or another 11 times by Obama in his State of the Union speech this year.
Uh, I don’t think Obama can claim dibs on that phrase. Newt used “Winning the Future” for the title of a book he wrote six years ago, and I’m pretty sure he didn’t invent it either.
BTW – I am having problems accessing the intertoobz this morning. It’s like I’m using an early 90’s dial-up modem and a Commodore 64 PC. I plan to talk more about the whole Romney/KKK fiasco when I get things straightened out.
That kind of stuff is slander, libel. It’s a lie designed to tear somebody down and profit off of selling dirty laundry that isn’t even real.
Legally there has to be some way to hold the media accountable for “multiple serious factual errors” like this without stiffling free speech or taking away people’s right to express opinions.
Never mind Newt and Romney. I’m thinking of what was done to Hillary, to Sarah. I’m thinking of the protections they gave to John Edwards and President Obama.
Look what they did to Herman Cain. Though Cain handled it poorly, it was still a low blow.
Whatever became of those ladies? Poof !
Uh, I don’t think Obama can claim dibs on that phrase. Newt used “Winning the Future” for the title of a book he wrote six years ago, and I’m pretty sure he didn’t invent it either.
This was talked about when Obama first unveiled his ‘What the Fuck’ (WTF) campaign slogan many months ago — his need to steal someoneelse’s lines.
Things are getting interesting. I remember Rocky Anderson……
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/13/ex_salt_lake_mayor_rocky_anderson
Meant to add, this will definitely take votes away from Obama. So is Sarah ready to go Independent Party yet ? 😉
And Anderson’s dirty laundry to air in 3…2…1…
eh, they will only bother with him if someone sees him as a threat…
so far, he’s just a gadfly…
(but I like Rocky)
Looks more qualified than most of the candidates, including Obama. Here’s the money quote:
more on wiki….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Anderson
I forgot he and Mittens were BFF’s during the 2002 Olympics 😀 A whole section on his controversies and his criticism of Obama. He could be the spoiler for BO ?
Love the timing…..right at the Obamas vacay time.
I recommend pouring drain-o through your intertubes. Worked wonders for me. Sometimes you can get a critter jammed up in there too. For that I recommend sticking an Obot at the end of a long wire and running him up and down through the tubes at least three times.
😆 😆
Newt – Ahead of his time with a book about Winning the Future.
Obama – behind the times using a phrase with the initials WTF when they mean something totally different 16 years later.
I’ve lost track of all the new themes and ideas that Obamanation has rolled out and watched flop.
Attackwatch?
Don’t miss the part with the KKK hood photoshopped onto Romney.
A Newt Bad Lip Reading … LOL literally, best one yet, especially at the end.
Congrats on the grandkid!!!!
Only ¡Sí, Se Puede! wasn’t “his” slogan. He stole that one too. Which you media btw somehow “forgot” to mention.