Washington Post: 4 Pinocchios for Mitt Romney’s misleading ad on Chrysler and China

[TroyD]

Posted by Glenn Kessler

at 06:02 AM ET, 10/30/2012

The Pinocchio Test

This ad shows that we have entered the final, desperate week of the campaign.

The series of statements in the ad individually may be technically correct, but the overall message of the ad is clearly misleading — especially since it appears to have been designed to piggyback off of Romney’s gross misstatement that Chrysler was moving Ohio factory jobs to China.

It is also especially strange that the ad touts Romney’s endorsement by the Detroit News, when the editorial actually backs up Obama’s criticism of Romney’s response to the auto industry crisis.

Four Pinocchios

More:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/4-pinocchios-for-mitt-romneys-misleading-ad-on-chrysler-and-china/2012/10/29/2a153a04-21d7-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html

[demwing]

1. 4 "Pinocchios" sounds too friendly

How about "4 Nixons"?

Or maybe "4 steaming bullshits"?

[reflection]

2. Unfortunately, no one cares.

Because it's not about Romney. It's not whether he's a great truth-teller or a horrible liar. Success or failure. He's not Obama and he's not black, and that's the bar to be cleared. If this mendacious liar is elected we are in a deep world of shit.