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Title: Romney Camp Going Off The Fact Checking Rails In Ohio
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TPM
URL Source: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2 ... king-rails-in-ohio.php?ref=fpa
Published: Oct 30, 2012
Author: TPM
Post Date: 2012-10-30 20:56:40 by Brian S
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Views: 3113
Comments: 7
In the final days of the 2012 race, Mitt Romney’s campaign is really making good on its pollster’s August promise to ignore fact checkers. To close the deal in the Ohio, Team Romney is blitzing the state with a series of wildly deceptive statements and ads suggesting that Chrysler is moving local jobs to China. The latest is an unannounced radio spot, audio of which was posted by the Greg Sargent on Tuesday. The spot asks whether Obama rescued the auto industry for “Ohio — or China?” “Now comes word that Chrysler plans to start making Jeeps in — you guessed it — China,” the ad’s narrator says. “What happened to the promises made to autoworkers in Toledo and throughout Ohio — the same hard-working men and women who were told that Obama’s auto bailout would help them?” The radio spot is a supercharged version of an earlier television ad, also unannounced, that drew unusually widespread condemnation in the local and national press for tying a planned expansion of Jeep operations in China to the fate of Jeep workers in Ohio. And that ad jumped off similar statements Romney made earlier while campaigning in Ohio. Chrysler, Jeep’s parent company, has publicly condemned Romney’s claims as false, writing on its website that they have “no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China” and that any expansion in Asia is to serve Asian markets. In fact, they are adding over 1,000 jobs to their Toledo factory as part of a $500 million investment in upgrading its capacity. After Romney continued to suggest otherwise in ads, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne personally called him out for “inaccurate” claims. “Jeep is one of our truly global brands with uniquely American roots. This will never change. So much so that we committed that the iconic Wrangler nameplate, currently produced in our Toledo, Ohio plant, will never see full production outside the United States,” Marchionne said on Tuesday. “Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand.” GM didn’t take well to the ad either, bristling at the notion that the auto rescue — which the Center for Automotive research estimated saved 1 million US jobs — encouraged outsourcing. “We’ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days,” GM spokesman Greg Martin told the Detroit Free Press. “No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.” Detroit News reporter David Sherpardson reported some more choice words from GM over the ad, quoting a representative who said “At this stage, we’re looking at a Hubble telescope-length distances between campaign ads and reality….GM’s creating jobs in the US and repatriating profits back to this country should be a source of bipartisan pride.”
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
The television ad Romney ran on Jeep outsourcing was fact-checked by Wapo and found to be substantially accurate, and the protest from the Italians is self- serving. “Jeep is one of our truly global brands with uniquely American roots. This will never change. So much so that we committed that the iconic Wrangler nameplate, currently produced in our Toledo, Ohio plant, will never see full production outside the United States,” Marchionne said on Tuesday. “Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand.” Thatsa spicy ball of bullshit Marchionne.
Link to the WaPo 'fact-check' please...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... Romneys campaign according to earlier article you posted said that Romney or his people said that a newspaper article said .... about Jeep. Now a question for you. Do you believe Obama to be an honest person?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/30/WaPo-Rates-Romney-Jeep-Ad-Correct
I asked for the Washington Post link to this claim, not 'bitemarks' spin.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... I'm wondering when the Fox/Breitbart groupies will ever learn to think for themselves.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
They can't and it is 'too late now'...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
#2. To: Thunderbird (#1)
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
#4. To: Brian S (#2)
Link to the WaPo 'fact-check' please...
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
#6. To: Brian S (#5)
I asked for the Washington Post link to this claim, not 'bitemarks' spin.
#7. To: mininggold (#6)
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