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rubato
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Mitt Romney for Lie of the Year!



http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romn ... ction.html
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Romney earns PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ for Jeeps made in China
By Rachel Rose Hartman, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 10 hrs ago


Mitt Romney's claim in a campaign ad that President Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" earned PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year," the site announced on Wednesday.

"The Jeep ad was brazenly false," Angie Drobnic Holan wrote in her analysis.

The Romney campaign ran the ad in the final weeks of the campaign, drawing sharp rebukes from the automakers and public condemnation from the Obama campaign.

Romney first claimed Jeep was moving to China in a late October campaign speech in Ohio, citing "reports," which he later identified in his ad as a story by Bloomberg News.

But Chrysler immediately rejected the claim, saying the company was reviewing adding production in China, not moving production out of the United States. Chrysler also noted that the Bloomberg story was misinterpreted.

It appeared that the false interpretation was initially made by the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard, who wrote about the Bloomberg story Oct. 25. Bedard's claim was then circulated by the Drudge Report.

Democrats, including the Obama campaign, used Romney's decision to stand by the false claim against him, attacking Romney's honesty.

"After Romney's false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China, Chrysler itself has refuted Romney's lie," an announcer read in an Obama campaign ad that painted Romney as "wrong on Ohio jobs."
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Ho Hum
:shrug

And one of Baba Wawa's most fascinating people was some kid named Honey Boo Boo.

Personally I would have gone for Scooby Doo.

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Not Scooby Doo Doo?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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MajGenl.Meade wrote:Not Scooby Doo Doo?
I do the Scoopy Doo Doo every saturday in the yard.
Thanks Apollo. :fu

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