Romney expands false Jeep-to-China ad campaign

[knapplc]

Romney expands false Jeep-to-China ad campaign

 

 

 

Mitt Romney’s 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 campaign’s 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 it’s 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 Romney’s part. The audacity of this falsehood makes it easier for the Obama camp to raise doubts about Romney’s character, integrity, and honesty — and to make the case that Romney not only failed to support the bailout when Ohio needed it; he’s now lying extensively to cover it up. Yesterday in Ohio, Joe Biden slammed the Romney camp by saying: “Have they no shame?”

 

As Steve Benen put it, this episode demonstrates more clearly than any other yet that Romney “believes we’ve entered a post-truth era and the disincentive has disappeared — he can repeat falsehoods with impunity without fear of consequences.”

[Junior]

There simply has to be some way to penalize a candidate for blatant lies like this.

[BigRedBuster]

The Dems would never go for it.

[Junior]

And the Republicans would? It's depressing to live in an era where truth means nothing... that a politician's response to being told he is wrong is to repeat the lie more often, and more loudly.

[BigRedBuster]

I am on the record as believing all politicians should be held legally accountable for lies about their competitor. That goes both ways.

[knapplc]

I am on the record as believing all politicians should be held legally accountable for lies about their competitor. That goes both ways.

 

100% agree. There are no clean hands in politics. We, the people, are just too apathetic to hold our politicians accountable for what they say and do.

[ZRod]

Maybe we need to follow the Mexican lead and ban negative campaign ads before the election.

 

 

 

*Disclamair* This isn't intended to be a smack at anyone on this board it's just something that comes to mind after watching Glenn Beck and the Daily Show go at it back in the day. My feeble attempt at satire if you will.

 

Mitt Romeny keeps repeating a lie.

 

Joesph Goebbels once said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

 

Mitt Romney is a Nazi!!!

[knapplc]

The Big Lie is a reality. People do what they're told. Milgram proved that.

[Ziggy]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html

 

This is apparently the Jeep rumor started

[ZRod]

The Big Lie is a reality. People do what they're told. Milgram proved that.

No doubt. I just wish the general public was more educated and less susceptible to lowely tactics of political campaigns and advertisers in general (5 hour energy doctor adds are a prime example).

 

Nobody had a problem when Chrysler was publically tossed around the last few decades and missmanaged by a German compnay. Not to mention if I'm readding Ziggy's article correctly they are simply expanding production to China, not outsourceing current production. When you look at the bottom line that's not a bad move, it's payed dividens for the Buick brand and China is a ever growing market for many US based companies. And depending on the company structure some of that money may show up back here in the US.

[strigori]

And the Republicans would? It's depressing to live in an era where truth means nothing... that a politician's response to being told he is wrong is to repeat the lie more often, and more loudly.

 

 

 

The core of the problem is the media being chickenS***s and not calling lies lies when the see them. Cut out the BS with 'inaccurate' or 'misleading' call a spade a spade, on anyone running for public office, and beat them over the head with it until they retract it, and apologize for lying to the American people. They are so terrified of the Fox news and Rushes attacking them for being 'liberal' if they actually bust someone when they are lying.

[HSKR]

So Fiat says they may move jeep manufacturing to China, Romney outs them with the commercials, Fiat backs off. Wow, if Romney is saving that many American manufacturing jobs as a simple candidate, just think what he can do as President.

 

 

[ZRod]

So Fiat says they may move jeep manufacturing to China, Romney outs them with the commercials, Fiat backs off. Wow, if Romney is saving that many American manufacturing jobs as a simple candidate, just think what he can do as President.

 

 

So you want to twist facts too? They were EXPANDING production in the Asian market, something GM had done long ago. The best way to do that is create production facilities on that continent instead of paying taxes, tarifs, and shipping cost that could significantly raise prices for the consumer.

[carlfense]

Remember the closing days of the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney ran

suggesting Chrysler was going to stop building Jeeps in Ohio and move production to China? The one that got “Four Pinocchios” from the fact-checker at the Washington Post? The one Romney himself echoed in a speech he delivered near the Jeep plant in Ohio: “I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China.” Right afterward, Meat Loaf performed.

 

Anyway, that Jeep plant? It didn’t move to China. And it’s actually doing quite well. No, scratch that: It’s going gangbusters. Demand for Jeeps is so high that Chrysler workers are clocking 60 hours a week and still can’t keep up. So according to theToledo Blade, the company is planning on hiring up to 1,000 part-time workers—American workers, in Ohio—so they can crank out enough Jeeps to meet the demand.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/the-jeep-plant-mitt-romney-said-was-moving-to-china-is-hiring-1-000-workers-in-ohio

[VectorVictor]

Remember the closing days of the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney ran

suggesting Chrysler was going to stop building Jeeps in Ohio and move production to China? The one that got “Four Pinocchios” from the fact-checker at the Washington Post? The one Romney himself echoed in a speech he delivered near the Jeep plant in Ohio: “I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China.” Right afterward, Meat Loaf performed.

 

Anyway, that Jeep plant? It didn’t move to China. And it’s actually doing quite well. No, scratch that: It’s going gangbusters. Demand for Jeeps is so high that Chrysler workers are clocking 60 hours a week and still can’t keep up. So according to theToledo Blade, the company is planning on hiring up to 1,000 part-time workers—American workers, in Ohio—so they can crank out enough Jeeps to meet the demand.

http://www.businessw...workers-in-ohio

 

So you mean this plant is going to employ more people here in the United States?

 

Man, I'm so tired of Obama ruining the country, helping the economy back up on its feet--it's sickening.