Romney Jeep Ad Continues To Provoke Controversy

[Galraedia]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The Mitt Romney campaign is defending its controversial ad that misleads viewers into thinking that under President Barack Obama's watch, Chrysler is moving production of Jeeps to China.

The ad, which has sparked a torrent of complaints and fact checking, was initially caught being aired in the Toledo, Ohio, television market, though the Romney campaign had not announced it publicly. The television tracking service TVEyes shows that it is now airing in Youngstown, Ohio, as well.

A Democratic ad buy source, speaking on condition of anonymity to reveal private data, said that the Romney campaign is spending $360,000 on television ads in Toledo between Oct. 27 and Nov. 1, 35 percent of which is being used to air the Jeep ad. It is spending $138,000 in Youngstown over the same time period, 50 percent of which is going to the Jeep ad.

The campaign is doing all of this without mounting a substantive defense of the ad's content. The spot states that Obama took the auto companies through bankruptcy, without acknowledging that that was Romney's plan as well. It says that the Detroit News endorsed Romney, without noting that the endorsement included a criticism of Romney's position on the auto bailout. It states that Romney has a "plan to help the auto industry," though as Politico's Ben White noted, the Romney campaign hasn't offered reporters any such plan. Finally, it cites a debunked report from Bloomberg to suggest that Chrysler will be returning Jeep production to China, without explaining that the company is doing so to cater to a growing Chinese market and isn't moving any U.S. jobs there to accommodate that demand.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/romney-jeep-ad_n_2039898.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

[matt819]

2. I hope the local newspapers

are covering this and plastering their front pages with these lies.

There is much that is truly astounding about these people, but it is well beyond belief that people, some of whom actually are smart, believe this crap. Of course, these people also believe in death panels and that the president is a socialist muslim anti-christ.

Do you ever wonder whether there is road back from this madness?

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Shame that the courts have ruled it's okay to lie in political ads.

[navarth]

4. bingo! nt

[madrchsod]

5. nothing like pissing off the workers at chrysler and the president of fiat motors.

ya he`s really ready for international diplomacy!

[DallasNE]

6. Richard Nixon Had A Back Office Misinformation/Dirty Tricks Group

With Mitt Romney it has moved from the back office to front and center -- in fact, the only show in town. Romney has done this all out in the open and under the nose of the media and it has gone unreported to a large extent. That the media has empowered Romney to do this is the big story this election cycle. Who would have thought that freedom of the press would have died of a self-inflicted wound.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. romney should be made to pay a fine for lying