Drudge Fabricates Obama Call For Industry Bailouts

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/09/drudge-fabricates-obama-call-for-industry-bailo/189228

Oliver Willis

The Drudge Report has deceptively edited President Obama's words to falsely suggest that Obama proposed additional bailouts or government control of private industry at a campaign event today in Colorado. In fact, Obama was promoting proposals to keep jobs in the United States, rather than outsource them -- not advocating government funded bailouts. Drudge's actions are in line with a recent conservative media pattern of distorting Obama's quotes.

Drudge pairs a picture of Obama with the headline "Let's Repeat Auto Bailout 'With Every Industry'."

But Obama's actual comments make clear that he was calling for the restoration of manufacturing jobs "not just in the auto industry, but in every industry." He proposed to do this not through government bailouts, but by using tax breaks and other incentives to reward employers for keeping jobs in America, rather than outsourcing them.

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[Tx4obama]

1. Another link to the story with MORE info regarding Romney campaign

The Romney campaign, which has apparently exhausted the selectively edited clip of President Obama saying “you didn’t build that,” has seized on a new soundbite to distort. The campaign sent an email blast Thursday afternoon featuring a video of an Obama rally in Colorado from earlier that day and falsely claimed that he wants the government to bail out every industry. “I Want To Do The Same Thing With Manufacturing Jobs … In Every Industry,” it read.

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/09/668921/new-romney-campaign-distortion-obama-wants-government-in-every-industry/

[Recoverin_Republican]

2. Media Matters is great! good post!

Recommended!

[Bill USA]

3. shouldn't be too long before we hear Charlie Rose chanting it nightly!

recommended!!