Romney’s Jeep-to-China lie earns brutal headlines in Ohio

[TroyD]

Posted at 09:05 AM ET, 10/30/2012

The Morning Plum: Romney’s Jeep-to-China lie earns brutal headlines in Ohio

By Greg Sargent

As David Plouffe wrote in his memoir of Campaign 2008, the Obama team has long thought that one of the most effective ways to influence independents and undecided voters is via local media in key battleground states. So it’s worth taking a look at how the battle over Mitt Romney’s latest falsehood — that the auto bailout will result in American Jeep jobs getting shipped to China — is playing in the Ohio media, since this claim represents Romney’s last chance to turn things around in the state.

Here’s the headline in today’s Toledo Blade:

Clinton, Biden call Jeep ad deceptive

Another in the Toledo Blade:

Obama campaign accuses Romney of dishonesty on Jeep issue

The Blade has been covering this story pretty aggressively, noting that Romney — who now claims Obama followed his approach on the auto-bailout — previously derided the rescue effort as “crony capitalism.”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, meanwhile, published a scorching editorial with this headline:

Flailing in Ohio, Romney rolls out Jeep ploy

More:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum-romneys-jeep-to-china-lie-earns-brutal-headlines-in-ohio/2012/10/30/6ca63574-227e-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html

[polichick]

1. Not as brutal as they should be - too many "Obama campaign accuses" types...

...not enough "Romney is a liar" types.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

2. The Plain Dealer had a great headline, but it's in the editorials

Why can't a newspaper simply say, on the front page as news, Romney Ad Claiming Jeep production being sent to China is false, per Chrysler Corp.

That doesn't involve anyone's opinion or analysis, just a statement of fact.

[Glamrock]

3. At this point

Headlines should be "Romney lies again".

[EC]

4. It's not brutal headlines when they say

Clinton, Biden call
Obama campaign

yada, yada, yada....It would be brutal if they were honest and say "Jeep calls Romney campaign out on their lies about ....."

[amborin]

5. their dividing workers tactic is straight out of Rove's playbook;

"...............And so began the latest, and perhaps most important, attempt by Mitt Romney to wrest Ohio into his column. His effort to do so is now intently focused, at times including statements that stretch or ignore the facts, on knocking down what is perhaps the most important component of President Obama’s appeal to blue-collar voters in Ohio and across the industrial Midwest: the success of the president’s 2009 auto bailout.

Mr. Obama’s relatively strong standing in most polls in Ohio so far has been attributed by members of both parties to the recovery of the auto industry, which has helped the economy here outperform the national economy. At the same time, the industry’s performance and the president’s claim to credit for it appear to have helped Mr. Obama among the white working-class voters Mr. Romney needs.

With the race under most expected circumstances coming down to Ohio, and Ohio potentially coming down to perceptions of how the candidates view the auto industry, Mr. Romney has spent the last few days aggressively trying to undercut Mr. Obama’s auto bailout narrative.

In the past few days his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, has accused Mr. Obama of allowing the bailout to bypass nonunion workers at Delphi, a big auto parts maker with operations in Ohio; Mr. Romney has characterized Mr. Obama’s bailout plan as based on his approach...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/us/politics/gop-turns-fire-on-obama-pillar-auto-bailout.html?ref=us&_r=0

[Blaukraut]

6. Brutal would be: Romney Lies about Chrysler/Jeep

Those headlines are tame and still reek of "He said/She said"

[ladjf]

7. They failed to mention that the head of Chrysler has written another letter that expressly

states Chrysler will not be moving it's Jeep operation to China. nt

[SoapBox]

8. And then this at Think Progress,

"Romney’s Misleading Ad Causes Auto Workers To Think They’re Losing Their Jobs"

"The Romney campaign is doubling down on the false claims and is expanding the ad campaign."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/30/1110431/romney-ad-workers-jeep/

Dirty Mittens and his ilk continue to lie, Lie and LIE to Americans. Disgusting.

[Lucinda]

9. I can't wait until this man is off the national scene.

Nov 6th can't get here fast enough.

[lindysalsagal]

10. This crap can only help Obama: Mitt's voters will stay home

after they look into this and find out he's using them this way.

How can someone so rich be so dumb?

[jsmirman]

11. Yes, please. It is unconscionable.

[libdem4life]

12. GMC to Romney ... Cheap Jeep Shot

[ffr]

13. hahahahahahahahahaha

What an idiot! Didn't he get Chrysler's memo.

[GallopingGhost]

14. This is Romney's most blatant

and pathetic lie yet.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

15. Good God

How can anyone vote for someone who is that dishonest?

[NCLefty]

16. The third one might be brutal, but I wouldn't call the other 2 that.

Still, the more people exposing his lies the better.