If you were listening to the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday, you have already heard how the Obama campaign is running ads in Spanish that lie about him and John McCain.
Our friend Jake Tapper at ABC News has written things up nicely (maybe too nicely):
From the Fact Check Desk: Obama?s New Spanish Language TV Ad Es Err?neo
September 17, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh.
As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama?s ad features a narrator saying: ?They want us to forget the insults we?ve put up with?the intolerance?they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much.?
The screen then shows these two quotes from Limbaugh:
??stupid and unskilled Mexicans?
?Rush Limbaugh
?You shut your mouth or you get out!?
?Rush Limbaugh
The narrator then says, ?John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote?and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families. John McCain?more of the same old Republican tricks.?
There are some real factual problems with this ad, which is titled ?Dos Caras,? or two faces.
First of all, tying Sen. McCain ? especially on the issue of immigration reform ? to Limbaugh is unfair.
Limbaugh opposed McCain on that issue. Vociferously. And in a larger sense, it?s unfair to link McCain to Limbaugh on a host of issues since Limbaugh, as any even occasional listener of his knows, doesn?t particularly care for McCain.
Second, the quotes of Limbaugh?s are out of context..........<SNIP>
