Explained: Why WaPo and Globe refused Romney's demand for retraction of Romney's outsourcing history

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/opinion/brazile-romney-bain/index.html?iref=allsearch

Mitt Romney vs. stubborn factsBy Donna Brazile, CNN Contributor
updated 9:57 AM EDT, Fri July 27, 2012


But when the Washington Post took him up on it last month and published an article headlined "Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas," the Romney campaign was caught flatfooted. The Post found that Bain Capital, the firm Romney spent much of his professional life building up, had invested in companies that had not only shipped jobs overseas -- a practice of some concern to working- and middle-class Americans -- but had pioneered the practice.

More questions on Romney's Bain tenure Romney's campaign pushed back hard, claiming that the Post had its facts wrong. The campaign met with the Post's editors and demanded a retraction, claiming that Romney had left Bain in 1999, supposedly before the outsourcing investment began. The Washington Post listened to the Romney side of the story but stood its ground.

Now we know why. The Boston Globe reported two weeks ago that Romney had signed official documents claiming to be the president and CEO of Bain Capital as late as 2002, when the company was actively building up firms that outsourced American jobs. He didn't just say this casually at some dinner party; he swore it was the truth on Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

What did the Romney campaign do this time? It hit the "repeat" button and demanded a retraction from the Globe. Who are you going to believe, the campaign asked its hometown paper, me or your lying eyes? Once again, the investigative journalists stood by their reporting.

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1. K&R n/t

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2. They PIONEERED OUTSOURCING?

So. Basically. Everything that's gone wrong with America is really and truly Romney's fault.

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3. I think they are using pioneering loosely

in the 60's key punch used to be outsourced to ships off shore outside the 3 mile limit. (I never checked, I just asked where they were sending them to after they let our keypunch people go and this is the answer I was given). IN the 70's they were outsourcing to Ireland. And the consulting firms were bringing in the British as H1B visa - then the Swedes, then Philippines, and later India.

I saw it grow over the years.