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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Is Mitt Romney going to get a free pass to the White House
Posted by Jill | 7:17 PM
It sure looks that way, given that despite his record of outsourcing and killing jobs here in the US, no one is questioning his claim of having created 100,000 jobs.

Greg Sargent:
I don’t know how to be any clearer about this, but here goes. It is now beyond doubt that Mitt Romney will be resting his case against Obama on two core claims.

The Romney campaign is triumphantly circulating a quote that Romney gave to Fox News today. Asked about the Dem criticism of his Bain years, Romney replied:
“This is a president who lost more jobs during his tenure than any president since Hoover. This is 2 million jobs that he lost as President. And by the way, when he was overseeing General Motors and Chrysler, how many factories did he close? How many dealerships? How many thousands upon thousands of Americans had to be let go in an effort to try and save those businesses? That’s what we did in our business. And I’m very happy in my former life; we helped create over 100,000 new jobs. By the way, we created more jobs in Massachusetts than this president’s created in the entire country.
So if the President wants to talk about jobs, and I hope he does, we’ll be comparing my record with his record and he comes up very, very short.”

It’s obviously too much to expect Fox to challenge these claims. But Romney has made this assertion about 100,000 new jobs in various other settings, too. As Steve Benen noted, his Super PAC is also making a very similar claim in ads. And as far as I can tell, only two lonely fact checking operations — one at the Post, the other at FactCheck.org — have scrutinized it. They have found that the assertion is at best unsubstantiated and that there may have been more layoffs than jobs created by Bain; there’s no way to tell for sure. When will reporters push Romney on this?

I'll tell you when: The twelfth of never, that's when. In Mittens the money guys have their perfect candidate: He's white, handsome, rich, from a storied famly, white, rich, 1%-friendly, white, and rich. And who owns the media? Money guys.

So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the so-called liberal media to ask him this question. It wouldn't be seemly. And besides, as Viacom head Sumner Redstone said in 2004, explaining why as a liberal Democrat himself he was supporting George W. Bush's re-election, "from a Viacom standpoint, we believe the election of a Republican administration is better for our company."

Update: Romney campaign admits it's horsepuckey.

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Anonymous The Wifely Person said...
I think the Republicans are overlooking a very important aspect of Obama's presidency, and that is his personal culpability for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius when it buried Pompeii. It's important to establish a chain of responsibility for events as far back as possible in order to establish the role President Obama has played in the destruction of the known universe as we know it.

i'm just suggestin'.....
1/4/12, 10:49 PM  
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