Romney's Jeep Lie Outdoes Richard Nixon in the Mendacity Department

[buzzman]

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17608-romney-s-jeep-lie-outdoes-richard-nixon-in-the-mendacity-department

By now, most BuzzFlash at Truthout readers know that Mitt Romney is airing a mendacious ad in Ohio claiming that Chrysler is moving Jeep manufacturing jobs to China. This caused consternation among some union workers in Toledo, Ohio, home of a major jeep manufacturing plant where Chrysler is actually planning to add 1100 new jobs.

A union leader in Ohio told the New York Times:

Bruce Baumhower, the president of the United Auto Workers local that oversees the major Jeep plant here, said Mr. Romney’s initial comments on moving production to China drew a rash of calls from members concerned about their jobs. When he informed them Chrysler was, in fact, is expanding its Jeep operation here, he said in an interview, “The response has been, ‘That’s pretty pitiful.’ ”

Chrysler chastised Romney's campaign for "unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments." The Washington Post (WP) gave the presidential candidate who wrote an op-ed a few years back "“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" four Pinocchios for lying.

The big, brazen, audacious, Hail Mary lie has been a hallmark of Republicans running for national office for years. As Greg Sargent of the WP states: "The Romney campaign has explicitly said in the past that it will not let fact checking constrain its messaging, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it appears to be expanding an ad campaign based on a claim that has been widely pilloried by fact checkers."

Earlier this year, journalist James Fallows wrote in the Atlantic that we have entered a "post-truth age" in terms of political accountability. It is one thing to shade the truth, and another to lie in such a way that it defiles the truth. Steve Benen, who writes the Maddow blog, has documented more than 500 Romney lies in 30 weeks.

[COLGATE4]

1. Unfortunately, Bill Clinton put his finger

on it: "Better to be strong and wrong than right and weak". As far as the low-information voters go, RMoney is 'strong' with his lie, while the denunciations of the lie are 'right' and weak.

[MADem]

2. Mitt has a secret plan to end the deficit!!!!

What he's not telling us is that he plans on breaking apart the US, like he did companies when he was brutalizing work forces at Bain, and selling it off by bits and pieces to his pals in China!!!

Ni hao, friends! Better order your Rosetta Stone lessons early!!!