Too bad it's Lie of the Year from Politifact: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/12/lie-year-2012-Romney-Jeeps-China/ More at the link.
Meh, not like Politifact is a joke name. Unbiased is not a term I would use to describe them and the St. Petersburg Times
I think the GOP talking point that Obama tripled or quadrapled the deficit in 4 years should be considered.
Plenty of his supporters (not to mention his VP pick) are still in positions of power. There's no harm in exposing the ridiculous lies they supported only a few weeks ago.
In other news, Obama said he'd visited 57 of the 58 states. But that's different! He wasn't lying. He's just stupider than the average 10 year old.
True, no. Worst lie of the year? That is subjective and Politifact has a history of being biased. Dear Politifact: Your Analysis of Obama's Drug War Record Is Factually Wrong That is just one example. So yeah, it's hard to take them serious.
Plus, it was a campaign statement, so it was forward-looking. If, because Obama was reelected, at any point in the next four years or so, Chrysler moves Jeep manufacture to China or goes out of business because of high labor costs and excessive regulation, his statement is accurate. For that matter, it looks to me like it is a word against word. You think, if someone asked the head of Chrysler if they were moving Jeep production overseas they'd go "Yes"--especially in light of their relatively recent big job-saving taxpayer bailout? Heck, just by saying he'd prevent it Romney may have prevented it. So yeah, there are a lot of ways the statement could be accurate. And I don't even particularly like Romney. Now, saying that you've been to 57 of the 58 states, on the other hand...
I guess it's like that Obama plot to take everyone's guns. He was going to do it, absolutely for certain until Wayne LaPierre and the NRA blew the whistle...it's sorta like dragon repellent...if you don't see any dragons it must be working
It was a dumbass thing to say. A blatant, outright lie. Makes you wonder just what his campaign staff was doing if not researching the validity of the statement.
They didn't care whether it was valid or not. They thought the voters were too stupid to realize it was a lie.
The exaggeration is that all Jeep production will be going to China. The truth is that some will, because they want to do business in China and making the Jeeps there is more cost efficient that making them here and shipping them there. http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmu...-building-jeeps-in-china-is-good-for-america/
That's not an exageration, that's a lie. Aside from that, nobody's saying otherwise. Another, though less blatant one I believe was that Obama "sold Chrysler to The Italians". How does one sell something one doesn't own?
Funny how just last year liberals were bitching up a storm about Politifact because they chose a Democrat whopper as their 2011 Lie of the Year. So are they still irrelevant and if not why?
They are not irrelevant, but they were wrong on the Medicare issue. It might have been an exaggeration to say Medicare would end as we know it, but we were talking about a fundamental change in the program. That's not the same as just making shit up.
