if I went to this well every day and looked into that camera and said, folks, Mr. Wicker from Mississippi is wearing a blue tie today and I bought $100 million of ads and ran them across the country, and I did not care about telling the truth or shooting straight or having integrity but I loved those 30-second attack ads and every one of those attack ads said, Mr. Wicker is wearing a blue tie, do you know what? I bet you by election day, some people would believe that you were wearing a blue tie tonight, Mr. Wicker, and we all know that is a yellow tie.
Robert Ehrlich: “if I went to this well every day and looked into that camera and said, folks, Mr. Wicker from Mississippi is wearing a…”
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Criticizing the use of misleading political advertisements during a debate.
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