[Moneyguy1]

Tech:

It is called "selective recall". This is a tactic older than time itself. Both sides have used it over the years, generally the side that has the least to stand on in real meaty issue stuff.

Read the opposition's words, parse out a portion that, by itself, seems to make that opposition (a) look stupid (b) look inconsistent or better yet (c) look insane.

The "True Believers" on the side of the camp doing the parsing will believe every word of what is written. After all, how could the (fill in party name here) do anything that dispicable? And even if they are astute enough to understand that the statements are less than honest, well, the ends (election or relection of (fill in the blank)) justifies the means.

This is not fun and games, kiddies. We are about to choose an individual that, for better or worse, represents the Country to the rest of the world. It is important that this individual, when using other people's words, makes certain that they are not taken out of context or twisted to portray the other parties as something they are not. In the international environment, that can lead to dire results. We cannot alienate the entire world and expect to survive.

Remember the two horse horserace and how it was reported by the losing country: "We came in second while our opponent came in next to last".

Of course, to those "True Believers", this means nothing as long as their choice is the one that wins.

Muddy the waters, claim you didn't do it and hope for the best.