Olympic Committee Pulls Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad

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The Olympics parody ad targeted at Mitt Romney created by the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA won’t run during the Olympics as planned, after the International Olympics Committee ordered it taken down from YouTube for copyright reasons. 

The super PAC says it’s happy to remove the spot because it means Romney and his supporters won’t be able to use any Olympics footage in their ads, either.

“Once we were assured that Mitt Romney and his allies would be held to the same standard, we were glad to take the ad down from our website,” said PrioritiesUSA’s Bill Burton. “Go Team USA!” 


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