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Presented By Mitt Romney Ad Wins 'Lie of the Year'
Dec 12, 2012
Mitt Romney's campaign ad claiming President Obama "sold Chrysler to
Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" — implying Ohio jobs
were being shipped overseas — has been awarded PolitiFact's annual "Lie
of the Year." (In a hilarious twist, the controversial fact-checking
group is mentioned in the commercial.) The Romney aad even prompted some
Jeep workers to call their union reps to ask if their jobs were in
danger. But PolitiFact's Angie Drobnic Holan writes — with a slight hint
of satisfaction — that for once, there were consequences for this
political lie. "People often say that politicians don’t pay a price for
deception, but this time was different: A flood of negative press
coverage rained down on the Romney campaign, and he failed to turn the
tide in Ohio, the most important state in the presidential election,"
she writes. The ad even prompted General Motors' spokesman to say,
"We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few
days… 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."
PolitiFact points to something The Atlantic Wire noticed throughout
Romney's campaign: he kept getting in trouble for picking up memes from
conservative blogs, the 47 percent being the most damaging. PolitiFact
(with "pants on fire" GIF at left) says:
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a
close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It
originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news
story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report
ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear
denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/12/romneys-jeep-ad-lie-of-the-year/59894/
Dec 12, 2012
Mitt Romney's campaign ad claiming President Obama "sold Chrysler to
Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" — implying Ohio jobs
were being shipped overseas — has been awarded PolitiFact's annual "Lie
of the Year." (In a hilarious twist, the controversial fact-checking
group is mentioned in the commercial.) The Romney aad even prompted some
Jeep workers to call their union reps to ask if their jobs were in
danger. But PolitiFact's Angie Drobnic Holan writes — with a slight hint
of satisfaction — that for once, there were consequences for this
political lie. "People often say that politicians don’t pay a price for
deception, but this time was different: A flood of negative press
coverage rained down on the Romney campaign, and he failed to turn the
tide in Ohio, the most important state in the presidential election,"
she writes. The ad even prompted General Motors' spokesman to say,
"We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few
days… 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."
PolitiFact points to something The Atlantic Wire noticed throughout
Romney's campaign: he kept getting in trouble for picking up memes from
conservative blogs, the 47 percent being the most damaging. PolitiFact
(with "pants on fire" GIF at left) says:
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a
close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It
originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news
story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report
ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear
denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/12/romneys-jeep-ad-lie-of-the-year/59894/