{"id":30954,"date":"2012-10-30T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/romney-continues-the-misleading-jeeps-to-china-campaign.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:17:21","slug":"romney-continues-the-misleading-jeeps-to-china-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/romney-continues-the-misleading-jeeps-to-china-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"Romney continues the misleading &quot;Jeeps to China&quot; campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to assume it&#39;s a desperation move on the Romney campaign&#39;s part &#8212; a last minute attempt to save Ohio by not just not retracting an identified falsehood (that Chrysler is moving its Jeep production to China), but actually <i>expanding<\/i> the a buy for an ad that implies the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &quot;Four Pinnocchios&quot; &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"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\" class=\"ot-anchor\">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<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &quot;Pants-on-Fire&quot; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2012\/oct\/30\/mitt-romney\/mitt-romney-obama-chrysler-sold-italians-china-ame\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2012\/oct\/30\/mitt-romney\/mitt-romney-obama-chrysler-sold-italians-china-ame\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/blogs\/death-race\/2012\/10\/romneys-not-true-chrysler-ad-glad-were-back-to-2012-as-usual.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/blogs\/death-race\/2012\/10\/romneys-not-true-chrysler-ad-glad-were-back-to-2012-as-usual.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ohio newspaper reactions &#8211; <a href=\"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\" class=\"ot-anchor\">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<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/romney-expands-false-jeep-to-china-ad-campaign\/2012\/10\/30\/89e8a986-229d-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html'>Romney expands false Jeep-to-China ad campaign<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFact checks don\u2019t chasten the campaign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Ycxp8c93prg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to assume it&#39;s a desperation move on the Romney campaign&#39;s part &#8212; a last minute attempt to save Ohio by not just not retracting an identified falsehood (that Chrysler is moving its Jeep production to China), but actually expanding the a buy for an ad that implies the same thing. &#8211; &quot;Four Pinnocchios&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/romney-continues-the-misleading-jeeps-to-china-campaign.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romney continues the misleading &quot;Jeeps to China&quot; campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-elections-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/whos-in-charge.html","url_meta":{"origin":30954,"position":0},"title":"Who&#39;s in charge?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Jul-12 6:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The headline is a bit misleading ... maybe. \u00a0It's not that they won't say who was running Bain Capital while CEO \/ President \/ Sole Shareholder \/ Chariman of the Board Mitt Romney was off \"not\" running it. \u00a0The Romney campaign claims it can't tell, because they say they don't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30085,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/romney-agrees-with-man-made-climate-change-but-says-we-shouldnt-do-anything.html","url_meta":{"origin":30954,"position":1},"title":"Romney agrees with Man-Made Climate Change, but says we shouldn&#39;t do anything&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-12 12:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Romney agrees with Man-Made Climate Change, but says we shouldn't do anything about it.A remarkable admission on the candidate's part (to be immediately attacked, no doubt, and possibly retracted). \u00a0But his \"solution\" is nonsensical, as it's basically, \"Well, China does more than we do, so anything we do is useless,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30623,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/tweets-from-2012-10-16.html","url_meta":{"origin":30954,"position":2},"title":"Tweets from 2012-10-16","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Oct-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I appear to have stayed up too late last night. 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