It's all over the right wing blogs and websites. Now Mitt Romney has a commercial out, playing in Ohio and elsewhere.
Naturally, every fact checker in the nation is calling this a lie. Politifact calls it "Pants on Fire".
So, what does he do?
Ignores questions about it.
Ignores the criticism:
And continues running the ad.
But, IMO, the worst thing about this whole thing is how Romney came across the
story.
Last week, Romney recklessly told a large audience in Defiance that he’d read that Chrysler’s Italian owners — that would be Fiat, which has controlled the American automaker since 2009 — were planning to move all Jeep production to China. The Republican presidential nominee’s statement predictably drew groans in Northwest Ohio, where the auto industry is critical to prosperity. He pledged to keep American jobs in America, if elected.
But apparently Romney had been reading a blogger who misunderstood reports that Chrysler was looking to again make some Jeeps in China for that expanding market. The news is a sign of Chrysler’s health, not of some sinister intentions by its management. The company is investing $500 million and hiring 1,100 workers at its Toledo Jeep plant. The day Romney misspoke, Chrysler announced plans to add 1,100 employees in Detroit, too. A company spokesman called any suggestion that Chrysler is abandoning its U.S. plants “a leap that would be difficult even for professional circus acrobats.”
