Michael Bloomberg hopes that voters’s lack of media literacy will convince them that his presidential run has Barack Obama’s blessing.
that voters’s lack of media literacy will convince them that his presidential run has Barack Obama’s blessing.Bloomberg released a new commercial featuring old clips of Obama praising Bloomberg as a leader, paired with voiceovers touting the two as partners in combating gun violence and improving childhood education.
The commercial is edited as if Obama has endorsed the former New York City mayor in his recent presidential bid. While the clips and photos of the two include dates in the lower left-hand corner—ranging from 2008 to 2016 and indicating the accolades are not recent, the ads seem to be misleading to less eagle-eyed viewers.
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