COLUMBIA, S.C. — A conservative North Carolina group said Friday it is spending $10,000 to air ads in South Carolina next week saying President Barack Obama is pushing socialist health care and freeing terrorists to Bermuda.
North Carolina state Sen. Andrew Brock said wakeupamerica.com has bought time for the 30-second ad in Columbia, Greenville and Hilton Head Island for two weeks starting Monday.
The Mocksville, N.C., Republican, said the ads are needed to back up Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who shouted “You Lie!” at Obama as he pitched overhauling health care.
“President Obama’s deception,” the ad starts as images begin flashing on the screen. “With moveon.org and Acorn, he took over – naming communist advisers; massive government takeovers; huge tax increases; socialist healthcare; tripling our grandkids debt; freeing terrorists to Bermuda; dignifying dictators; cutting defense. Now we see the real Barack Obama.” The ad concludes with three images of Obama with the word “socialism” capitalized below.
The Democratic National Committee and state Democratic Party said they had no comment on the ad.
The ad’s reference to terrorists freed to Bermuda is inaccurate, critics say. The men were detained in 2001 but American authorities concluded they were not enemy combatants and did not pose security threats and released them to Bermuda this year.
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