* The word is out---Mitt Romney's ad about Chrysler moving their Jeep operation out of the USA is a big, fat lie. The Chairman of Chrysler has debunked Romney's claims, and so has Plunderbund.
Mitt Romney is facing intense pushback today over a new Ohio campaign ad that appears to suggest — falsely — that Chrysler is moving U.S. jobs to China....
...“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," Romney said. "I will fight for every good job in America.”
The claim is completely misleading and false, and provoked an outcry from Democrats and reporters . The report, from Bloomberg, actually said that Chrysler is talking about adding Jeep production in China in order to serve the Chinese market. Jeep production in North America would continue unchanged....
BusinessInsider has even posted the Obama ad which responds to the Romney lie:
...Back when Ohio needed the auto industry bailed out — and Obama took
the politically risky step of proceeding with the rescue — Romney took
the politically easy position. Attacking it was a good way to pander to
conservatives in advance of the GOP primary. But then, when this
position became problematic for him in the general election, he began to
dissemble about it, falsely suggesting he’d supported government action
up front when that’s simply not what happened. With time running out, Romney has run out of answers on the auto-bailout, and has now turned to the claim that it will result in American Jeep jobs getting shipped to China. That isn’t true either.
But this goes beyond a standard fact checking skirmish. Obama
advisers see it as central to their closing argument against Romney's
character. It isn’t just that Romney failed to support the auto-bailout
when Ohioans really needed it; it’s that Romney doesn’t have the
integrity to come clean about it now that he’s asking them for their
help furthering his political ambitions. That’s why the ad combines the
claim that Romney “turned his back” on the industry with the assertion
that Romney is being “dishonest” about it “now.”
When it really mattered, President Obama stood up for the American workers, the American auto industry, and American jobs. President Obama bravely took a stand that many, including Romney, criticized. Without the President's determination, Ohio would not be enjoying the 800,000 jobs related to the auto industry, and a lower unemployment rate than many other states.