Has any recent party-endorsed legislation been promoted as disingenuously as “The Keep Terrorists Out of America Act”? The PR campaign for the bill falsely suggests that the Obama administration is going to turn dangerous Al Qaeda terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility loose on U.S. soil.

For instance, a National Republican Senatorial Committee web ad that I saw tonight on the Drudge Report asks whether captured top Al Qaeda leaders like Khalid Sheikh Mohammad are “[c]oming soon to a neighborhood near you” and suggests that Obama may be considering “Housing Terrorists in your area” (not “imprisoning” or some other more appropriate term):

In a reflection of the intellectual seriousness of the endeavor, the ad’s disclosure statement has two typos and the one-page website it links to has a giant misspelling in the banner graphic:

The title of the ad’s website is “Help Stay Protected From Gitmo Detainees,” but the same (il)logic applies to virtually any dangerous criminal who has been imprisoned. Republican governors, for instance, also “house” murderers and evildoers in “a neighborhood near you” whenever they build a new prison or transfer prisoners around their states. I look forward to the GOP’s efforts to protect the country from this dangerous menace.