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What was Mitt Romney thinking when he gave the okay for this ad:
To put it nicely, the ad is false.
To put it like it should be put, Romney’s ad is a brazen lie. So brazen, in fact, that he is now facing a backlash over it in the media. According to Talking Points Memo:
In news articles, tweets, and other media, members of the national press, usually reluctant to criticize campaigns directly, have taken Romney to task for running a misleading TV ad creating the false impression that Jeep will ship jobs to China because of President Obama’s auto rescue.
. . . The sense that the Romney ad breached already lax standards for honesty in campaign ads was particularly evident on Twitter Sunday afternoon and evening, when many reporters first took note of it, after it began airing in Ohio without public notice.
And now the Obama campaign has come back with a blistering ad of it’s own:
Apparently, Romney’s ad was an attempt to win Ohio, which has been affected positively by the Obama supported auto bailout. Romney is said to be behind in this state and many experts agree that if he doesn’t win Ohio, the road to 270 electoral votes and the White House will become more difficult for him to reach.
If that is the case, then Romney has no one to blame but himself. According to Business Insider, Ken Lortz, United Auto Workers leader in Toledo said the following during a press call conducted by the Obama camp:
“We knew he wasn’t on our side when the economy and the industry was on the brink,” Lortz said “But the fact that he would lie to our faces and try to deceive us is just too much.”
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Governor Romney, cracking down on outsourcing.
MENDACIOUS MITT.
good one! lol
Here’s a fact mentioned previously.
Willard forced a haircut on a guy and he died.
Fight fire with fire.
Mr. Lortz hasn’t been paying attention; we reached “just too much” with Mittens months ago.
Mess with the Mega corporations, and The Mega Corp MSM jumps into defense mode. Romney crossed a bridge too far. Murder American Citizens at will – not a problem. Malign “auto makers” – problem.
Romney, Obama and the erstwhile “Big Three” aided by the MSM, fully intend to bullshit the American public and the world that the status quo can and will continue forever.
If all one has left is lying, then they must be a Republican.
But of course! I was wondering why now, why this particular lie.
Silly liberals, you still believe that facts matter dont you? If we just give them the facts then surely they will see things the way we do and vote with us. Sorry dont work that way. One thing I have learned is that most people make gut decisions and rarely change bcz of factual information. There are some folks that are never going to vote for that black guy no matter how many facts you give them.
You put this on another thread and I pointed out that the guy died from liver cancer almost 40 years later.
The ad is deliberately misleading on the Jeep-to-China point and may be outright lying on the claim about the fact-checkers (the fact checks that I’ve seen have pointed out that Romney was twisting the truth about Obama doing what Romney had advised regarding the automobile company’s bankruptcies.) However, Romney did lie at a rally in Ohio when he said he saw a story that Chrysler was thinking about moving all Jeep production to China.
Unfortunately most of the Rethuglican base doesn’t care if they’re being lied to.
Just as long as they can beat up the black guy.
I know the guy died years ago. I was just trying to point out the methodology Willard uses. He takes statements out of context and twist them and then tries to present them as facts/or can be read the wrong way.
Just as you did here in my example. To repeat.
“Willard forced a haircut on a guy and he died.”
I did not say Willard killed the guy but he has indeed died since the haircut.
Don’t bet the mortgage money on his not getting away with this one. In MA, we were nodding our heads and grinning during the first debate, thinking the country finally saw what kind of skill this liar has at what he does best. Instead, the country went away thinking he was a great guy after all, just like he knew they would.
The only thing that counts for Romney is the votes be gets from the believers. He has never in his friggin’ life cared about the truth.
Fact Check on the auto bailout and Jeep.
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/romney-distorts-facts-on-jeep-auto-bailout/
Jeep seems to be more of a distortion than the auto bailout story.
Romney did, in a 2008 op ed, advocate a managed bankruptcy and Obama did use a managed bankruptcy.