The Romney campaign sent out an excerpted endorsement Monday from the New Philadelphia (OH) Times-Reporter with the following message:
**In compliance with copyright laws, this version of the editorial is excerpted**
The Romney campaign has come under fire several times for emailing out editorials that endorse Mitt Romney, but don’t include the articles’ less-flattering paragraphs. Most notably, they edited out a paragraph disputing Romney’s take on the auto bailout in an endorsement from the Detroit News. On Saturday, TPM noted that the campaign had cut a paragraph from an endorsement from the Cleveland Plain Dealer that began “Consistency is certainly a problem for Romney.” The Romney campaign responded to criticism of the practice in February by saying it simply cut the editorials to comply with copyright law, though copyright experts have told TPM that this reasoning is “unpersuasive.”
