Mitt Romney is banging Newt Gingrich over the head in Florida about his ethics probe while he was speaker. Gingrich was vindicated in the end as committing no wrong doing. But, that doesn’t matter in the nasty game of politics.
Hot Air reports in a statement Saturday, former NBC “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw, who is featured in the ad reporting on Gingrich’s 1997 ethics investigation, said, “I am extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad. I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign.”…
The NBC legal department has written a letter to the campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads. Similar requests have gone out to other campaigns that NBC says have inappropriately used clips from “Nightly News,” “Meet the Press,” “Today” and MSNBC material.
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