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So pissed I wasted a couple minutes on that.

TheMightyMaiden wrote:So pissed I wasted a couple minutes on that.

Oh c'mon. Where is your mirth, baby? That was pretty funny. A little desperate, but funny.

tylamonroe wrote: A little desperate, but funny.

Speaking of desperate, Romney made a last ditch effort to win Ohio by claiming that Chrysler was moving a jeep plant to China.

Chrysler called Romney a liar:

Jeep in China
http://blog.chryslerllc.com/blog.do?id=1932&p=entry

Despite Chrysler’s admonition, Romney is now making a similar claim in a new TV ad.

Who Will Do More?
http://youtu.be/VQ8P04q6jqE

Now Factcheck is calling him a liar too.

Romney Distorts Facts on Jeep, Auto Bailout
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/romney-dis ... o-bailout/

DEATH ROW JOE wrote:

tylamonroe wrote: A little desperate, but funny.

Speaking of desperate, Romney made a last ditch effort to win Ohio by claiming that Chrysler was moving a jeep plant to China.

Chrysler called Romney a liar:

Jeep in China
http://blog.chryslerllc.com/blog.do?id=1932&p=entry

Despite Chrysler’s admonition, Romney is now making a similar claim in a new TV ad.

Who Will Do More?
http://youtu.be/VQ8P04q6jqE

Now Factcheck is calling him a liar too.

Romney Distorts Facts on Jeep, Auto Bailout
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/romney-dis ... o-bailout/

You're getting to be a little uptight yourself these days, baby. Take a breath. It's silly season.

The Ad may very well end up being misleading. Sort of like Mitt Romney prison raping and killing Big Bird or carrying around binders full of women to add to his Morman Harem, but in this case, every word was true.

Here’s Kevin Drum of Mother Jones:

"Technically, every word of this is true. Obama did force GM and Chrysler through a managed bankruptcy. Fiat did end up buying Chrysler. And Chrysler is thinking about building Jeeps in China."

Here is the CEO original statement.

"Fiat SpA (F), majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers’ operations in the region.

Fiat is in “very detailed conversations” with its Chinese partner, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. (2238), about making Jeeps in the world’s largest auto market, said Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia. Chrysler hasn’t built Jeeps there since before Fiat took control in 2009.

“The volume opportunity for us is very significant,” Manley, who is also president of the Jeep brand, said in an interview at Chrysler’s Auburn Hills, Michigan, headquarters. “We’re reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity” as well as “should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio.”

Here is the same cat backtracking and doing damage control

"Let’s set the record straight: Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China. It’s simply reviewing the opportunities to return Jeep output to China for the world’s largest auto market. U.S. Jeep assembly lines will continue to stay in operation."

So, even if we give the CEO the benifit of the doubt and he just fucked up in his original statement and was clarifying a mistake rather than trying to make up for letting the cat out of the bag too early, Romney's ad contains no lies.

As for Factcheck.org? Even NPR says they aren't exactly honest or non partisan.

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlaye ... =144974101