We ran an article Friday about how the Trump campaign has made a habit of deceptively using quotes in its TV ads, cutting out words and taking stuff way out of context.
Then the campaign released the most egregious example yet. Here's a thread on deceptive quotes in its new ad.
The ad purports to quote the New York Times as writing, “Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes.”
Here’s what the Times actually wrote: “Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.” nytimes.com/2024/08/22/us/…
As a narrator talks about Biden’s “open-border policies,” the ad purports to quote CBS as writing, “Harris vows to keep Biden’s border.”
Here’s what CBS actually wrote: “Harris vows to keep Biden's border crackdown: ‘The United States is a sovereign nation.’” cbsnews.com/news/kamala-ha…
The ad quotes NBC as writing, “Welfare for illegals.”
But the NBC story is from 2018, before the Biden-Harris term began…and it doesn’t mention them.
It’s about licensing rules keeping DACA recipients out of some jobs. It mentions “welfare for illegal immigrants” in passing.
Finally, the ad quotes Axios as writing, “GLOBAL WAR.”
But the Axios article wasn’t about the situation under Biden and Harris. It was about a bipartisan commission that found the US isn’t prepared for a hypothetical future global war. axios.com/2024/07/31/def…
This stuff is incredibly obvious when you look up the source of the claims, but most viewers, of course, are not going to look up the source for the claims. /end
Story: cnn.com/2024/10/29/pol…
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