This article is about the Democratic National Committee launching a new TV ad that focuses solely on Mitt Romney. It is used to make him look like a flip flopper and a candidate that Obama should be able to beat. However, there is much more to this than we think. Normal, everyday Americans will watch this ad and do nothing more when deciding whether or not any of this stuff is true. The article, the link is above, describes a section of the ad that has Mitt Romney saying in 2002 that its is a women's right to choose regarding abortion. It then goes straight to a 2007 meet the press interview where Romney said, "The right next step is to see Roe v. Wade overturned." However, the ad does not mention the rest of the interview on Meet the Press and the logic and the CNN article says, "The full quote from the interview shows more nuance in Romney's position than the DNC ad reveals".
So the age old question comes to us again, should attack ads be seen as legitimate ways of persuading the public? Is the real enemy of politics the media? What happened to old fashioned pro-candidacy ads? It is November, a year away from the Presidential election and we are starting to see TV attack ads. It will be interesting to see what the United States Presidential Election timeline will look like in 50 years. Will we debate future presidents the day after one is voted into office?
This ad by the DNC is disturbing to me. It goes to show that parties, in co-op with the media, are getting more aggressive and losing their way. You make a good point about 50 years from now how we will probably be debating future presidents as soon as the most recently elected one takes office. This goes to show that the media is still being used as a political tool to demoralize the electorate. Mitt Romney just so happened to be the most recent victim of this attack advertising this year. We are still a whole year away from the Presidential election. If anything, this does not help the view of the media and politics, in fact it weakens the trustworthiness and faith in them both.
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