Romney / Ryan = Dirty Liars

Romney is doubling down on a known and proven lie to try to persuade Ohio voters.  Greg Sargent reports the Mitt Romney campaign has now put a version of his controversial television ad on the radio in Toledo, Ohio… the site of a Jeep plant.

"The move seems to confirm that the Romney campaign is making the Jeep-to-China falsehood central to its final push to turn things around in the state. 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."

The Romney ad falsely claims Obama “took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians, who are going to build Jeeps in China.”

Multiple independent analysts have found Romney’s ad grossly misleading.  Obama directed the two car companies into a brief bankruptcy but it was part of a restructuring financed by the federal government in order to reorganize the companies and keep them alive.

As to selling Chrysler “to the Italians,”  industry expert David Kiley of AOL Autos gave the missing context: “Italian automaker Fiat was the only company that stepped up to make an offer for Chrysler, which badly needed another car company with which to partner. Fiat's intervention has kept the company in one piece, saved Chrysler from dissolution, increased the quality ratings of the company's products, raised its market share and profit, and resulted in a huge recovery of jobs in Michigan and Ohio.”

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