TV host: Rory, tear down this ad

Television host Sam Shad says an ad by gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid uses clips from his show out of context and wants the Democrat to take down the ad.

Shad, the host of Nevada Newsmakers, said he reached out to the Reid campaign when it started airing an ad titled "Risks" that's aimed at bashing Reid's Republican opponent for being too cozy with bank lobbyists. The Reid campaign is sticking by the ad.

Shad said he knows Reid and other politicians are generally within legal rights to use clips from the show, but he prefers they don't because he says it appears as if the non-partisan show is taking sides. Political campaigns frequently use clips from news shows, newspapers and other media sources for content in ads.

A recent ad for Republican Congressional candidate Joe Heck, for example, uses clips from the political interview show Face to Face with Jon Ralston, to attack Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev.

Shad opposes the practice because he says he wants public figures to be able to speak freely, in depth and with nuance on his show without having to worry about their words being used out of context.

"This is totally non-partisan. I don't want anybody doing it," Shad said.

Shad said the new Reid ad is "even more irritating" than others because it cuts and moves clips of Sandoval to make it appear as if he said something different from his original statement.

"I think that all the broadcasters should be outraged their newscasts get used in this fashion, " Shad said.

The new Reid ad -- second in a series accusing Sandoval of being too close to lobbyists -- starts with a narrator saying, "On lobbyists for big banks recruiting Brian Sandoval to run for governor."

Then it cuts to a clip of Sandoval on the show Nevada Newsmakers saying, "They asked me if I would be interested in the position, and certainly, yes."

The narrator then says, "No wonder. Sandoval's law firm lobbies for nearly every bank in Nevada. Lobbyists pushed Sandoval into sponsoring the bill deregulating Nevada banks. It had devastating consequences. And left the rest of us to bail them out," flashing the words "$1.2 billion in losses" on the screen. It's a reference to Sandoval friends and advisers Pete Ernaut and Greg Ferraro, who are also lobbyists. The JP Morgan Chase bank is among Ferraro's clients.

The ad cuts back to Nevada Newsmakers and has a clip with host Sam Shad asking Sandoval: "Are they running your campaign?" Sandoval responds in the clip: "Yes. They're folks that I trust."

But that's not how the sequence unfolded on the original show.

In the unaltered clip, Shad asks: "Are they running your campaign?"

Sandoval responds: "Yes." He then quickly corrects himself and says, "They're not running my campaign but they are advising my campaign."

The statement, "they're folks that I trust" that appears to follow the "yes" response in the Reid ad is from earlier in the interview when Sandoval was discussing Ernaut and Ferraro.

The statement "they're not running my campaign but they are advising my campaign" is omitted from the ad.

"They twisted the latter part to make it appear he said something he didn't," Shad said.

Reid spokesman Mike Trask stood behind the content of the ad and the editing.

"Brian Sandoval has said that the lobbyists who recruited him to run for governor are running his campaign on several occasions," Trask said. "There is nothing in the ad that is not true."