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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo shame. No shame. No shame. Absolutely no shame: "Romney Expands False Jeep-China Ad Campaign"
Romney expands false Jeep-to-China ad campaignBy Greg Sargent
Mitt Romneys new television ad suggesting that the auto bailout will result in American jeep jobs getting shipped to China has been widely pilloried by news organizations, both nationally and in Ohio. The Romney campaigns response: It is expanding the ad campaign.
A Dem source familiar with ad buy info tells me that the Romney campaign has now put a version of the spot on the radio in Toledo, Ohio the site of a Jeep plant. The buy is roughly $100,000, the source says.
The move seems to confirm that the Romney campaign is making the Jeep-to-China falsehood central to its final push to turn things around in the state. The Romney campaign has explicitly said in the past that it will not let fact checking constrain its messaging, so perhaps its not surprising that it appears to be expanding an ad campaign based on a claim that has been widely pilloried by fact checkers.
The move represents a gamble on Romneys part. The audacity of this falsehood makes it easier for the Obama camp to raise doubts about Romneys character, integrity, and honesty and to make the case that Romney not only failed to support the bailout when Ohio needed it; hes now lying extensively to cover it up. Yesterday in Ohio, Joe Biden slammed the Romney camp by saying: Have they no shame?
The rest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-expands-false-jeep-to-china-ad-campaign/2012/10/30/89e8a986-229d-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html
What a pluperfect asshole.
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No shame. No shame. No shame. Absolutely no shame: "Romney Expands False Jeep-China Ad Campaign" (Original Post)
WilliamPitt
Oct 2012
OP
Good. Desperate men do desperate things and not many people will fail to see this for what it is.
Democratopia
Oct 2012
#2
Chrysler's legal team had best file complaints for trying to tank their stock
Turn CO Blue
Oct 2012
#5
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)1. Up
Democratopia
(552 posts)2. Good. Desperate men do desperate things and not many people will fail to see this for what it is.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)3. Hail Mary!
He's like a cornered possum.
I still would enjoy seeing Chrysler take out a really large "truth" ad in several local papers........I can dream about it at least.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)4. The Holy...The Pious...The Good Christian...The Bishop...
a lying Piece of Shit ASSHOLE. The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
But...he's white...so I guess that's good enough for the Pukes, Baggers, Haters, Bible Thumpers and Pearl Clutchers.
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)5. Chrysler's legal team had best file complaints for trying to tank their stock
and business by spreading false information.
FightForMichigan
(232 posts)6. I just can't imagine anyone falling for this crap
Here in Michigan, people are very, VERY much aware of where Romney stood on the issue in 2008. Why do you think Michigan is so deep blue this time around? I know our neighbors, who depend on autos just as much as us, must be equally aware. Who'd fall for this bullcrap?