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Title: His Biggest Lie Yet? Post by: Howey on October 30, 2012, 06:45:07 pm It's all over the right wing blogs and websites. Now Mitt Romney has a commercial out, playing in Ohio and elsewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dnfed-DjKo 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7bpMEZYjSE Ignores the criticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZr0UtLgkI And continues running the ad. But, IMO, the worst thing about this whole thing is how Romney came across the story (http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/10/flailing_in_ohio_romney_rolls.html). Quote 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.” Title: Re: His Biggest Lie Yet? Post by: Howey on October 30, 2012, 06:49:18 pm It gets even worse (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/30/1110431/romney-ad-workers-jeep/)...
Quote Bruce Baumhower, the president of the United Auto Workers local that oversees the major Jeep plant here, said Mr. Romney’s initial comments on moving production to China drew a rash of calls from members concerned about their jobs. When he informed them Chrysler was, in fact, is expanding its Jeep operation here, he said in an interview, “The response has been, ‘That’s pretty pitiful.’ ” Title: Re: His Biggest Lie Yet? Post by: reverend_darth on October 30, 2012, 07:58:07 pm It gets even worse (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/30/1110431/romney-ad-workers-jeep/)... I just can't fathom how the media doesn't bust his balls on the constant never ending lies. I think they want him to win so that they can cover the train wreck. Title: Re: His Biggest Lie Yet? Post by: Howey on October 30, 2012, 08:14:25 pm What's bad is he read it on a blog. Didn't fact check it just went with it. That's something Iceman would do, not a presidential candidate.
Title: Re: His Biggest Lie Yet? Post by: ekg on October 30, 2012, 08:50:40 pm I just can't fathom how the media doesn't bust his balls on the constant never ending lies. I think they want him to win so that they can cover the train wreck. I saw a blurb on this 'jeep' thing about a week-10 days ago(it may have been on Maher 2 weeks ago).... just a quick hit and nothing more.. I honestly thought it was gone and fixed because it's such a doozy of a lie that Romney had to have stopped it.. I see I was wrong.. but like you,can't fathom why or how the MSM is allowing it.. Title: Re: His Biggest Lie Yet? Post by: Howey on October 31, 2012, 07:23:16 pm I just can't fathom how the media doesn't bust his balls on the constant never ending lies. I think they want him to win so that they can cover the train wreck. http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/31/14832977-six-ads-one-common-denominator?lite |