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Pro-Gingrich PAC claims Florida stations are holding up ads
foxnews ^ | January 27, 2012 | Joy Lin

Posted on 01/27/2012 2:55:44 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

The pro-Newt Gingrich PAC "Winning Our Future" claims that "at least six" stations in Florida have -- as of Thursday -- been telling the group they need more documentation to run their ads.

"Stations all across Florida started to pull spots asking for fact checking," said Gregg Phillips, managing director of Winning Our Future, who accused the outlets of being "lazy" and suggested they were part of a coordinated effort across Florida to derail Newt Gingrich.

The SuperPAC currently has three ads running in Florida.

Phillips speculated this kind of fact-checking wasn't being done on Romney ads.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; romneydirtytricks; romneypayoffs; romneyrico; smellslikemitt

1 posted on 01/27/2012 2:55:47 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Find out if they are being done on Romney ads. Romney lied left right and center last night, and his ads do, too.


2 posted on 01/27/2012 2:57:21 PM PST by livius
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Radio spots?

Clear Channel

3 posted on 01/27/2012 2:58:13 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I been saying all along that media outlets would refuse to air ads by Newt.

This is just the beginning. If he gets the nom all the MSM outlets will refuse his ads.

The bastards!


4 posted on 01/27/2012 2:59:36 PM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Do I remember this also happened in 2008?


5 posted on 01/27/2012 3:00:08 PM PST by dforest
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The establishment refuses to give up.
6 posted on 01/27/2012 3:03:02 PM PST by tobyhill (Obama, The Biggest Thief In American History)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Rombamabots/Elites going full blown Commie.


7 posted on 01/27/2012 3:03:14 PM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Sounds like ol’ Mittens is really spreading around that money in Florida! He did the same thing in Iowa - running totally untrue but damaging ads against Gingrinch and then standing back and claiming that it wasn’t him but “the Super-Pacs I don’t control”!

This guy is so slippery - but the vast majority of voters will see the ads and not verify the facts and it may well be too much for Newt to overcome, especially if the stations won’t run his ads!

The really frustrating thing is that if Romney pulls it off and gets the nomination, does anyone really believe that he’ll start running attack ads against Obama? He won’t - just like John McCain in 2008, he’ll try to be “nice” to win the “moderates” and he’ll end getting his butt kicked just like McCain did! Arghhhh!!


8 posted on 01/27/2012 3:05:09 PM PST by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know who holds the future!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is how they’re going to kill the Tea Party.

You think Romney will be any different than Obama ... HA !

Choose wisely, Fellow Florida voters. Choose wisely.


9 posted on 01/27/2012 3:05:37 PM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: VikingMom

I don’t think it’s Romney, folks.

This smells like Chicago-style politics to me.

They know Newt is the only one who can beat them in November, so they’re trying to deny him the nomination, no holds barred.


10 posted on 01/27/2012 3:10:42 PM PST by Walrus (Big media is the natural enemy of liberty and big media fears Newt Gingrich)
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To: VikingMom; Tigen

Tigen has a thread with a link to a Roney interview, I don’t think being Mr Niceguy will be Romneys problem.

Romney is a bit ‘off’— Obama will look like the better and more sane choice, if Romney behaves anything like he does in that video.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2839000/posts

The video needs to be saved but I don’t know how to do the youtube stuff.


11 posted on 01/27/2012 3:13:32 PM PST by Irenic
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To: gov_bean_ counter

The ammount of money WTF spends on MSM ads would be better suited in net advertizing and hiring people on the ground to promote Newt’s website where people can skip the MSM spin.

Recently net ads surpassed MSM ads for the first time. Thats where the eyeballs are. Let the Rinos have the Dino media. It’s lost to us already so lets capitalize our strength. The net.


12 posted on 01/27/2012 3:18:58 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Walrus

Could just be the liberal media blocking the ads because they want to elect Romney. It’s not often you get a bonafide secular progressive on the Republican ticket. It’s far, far, far more valuable to the left to have a progressive become the leader of the Republican party than to have Obama get reelected. It would absolutely destroy the Republican Congress’ ability to coalesce around any kind of conservative agenda.


13 posted on 01/27/2012 3:33:44 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
they were part of a coordinated effort across Florida to derail Newt Gingrich

I'm just asking; wasn't it common when news papers of the past that acted at the behest of the power elite and the wealthy to lose their buildings and printing presses to flames?

14 posted on 01/27/2012 3:58:48 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Berlin_Freeper
absolutely incredible

the utter corruption across the specter of America

not only on the left but on the established GOP as well

nothing is sacred apparently

Levin is carrying the heavy water right now...Rush...not so much...Hannity...soft as butter

it is not about “a better candidate”, it's about stopping a liberal from getting the GOP nomination

15 posted on 01/27/2012 4:38:07 PM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: Walrus
I don’t think it’s Romney, folks.

This smells like Chicago-style politics to me.

Yes, the Chicago gang may have a hand in it this time, but it's mostly the "Fourth Estate", doing what it has been doing for some time now.

16 posted on 01/27/2012 4:41:25 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: JediJones
Another great post!

Also, reportedly Mittwit is heavily invested as an owner in the radio megapowers Clear Channel and/or Cumulus.

17 posted on 01/27/2012 7:05:35 PM PST by BlackElk ( Dean of Discipline ,Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society. Burn 'em Bright!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is the third time I have heard this. Where is the one honest reporter that wants to go after this. The money Romney is spending is astonishing. If we find out that Newts ads are being “fact” checked and Romney’s are not this will open a whole new can of worms. What ever happened to “investigative reporting”?


18 posted on 01/31/2012 3:32:26 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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