(This- mercifully- is the final edition. I’m tired of the lies, the shamelessness, and the complete absence of integrity. With any luck, Wednesday will dawn with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan having been consigned to the ash heap of history. They deserve nothing less.)
Romney told Ohioans that a major manufacturer is on the verge of moving all its jobs to China — but it isn’t true. Chrysler is looking to build Jeeps in China for the Chinese market, not to move American jobs there. In fairness to Romney, the news story that gave rise to this tale seems to have been sloppily written. But all the relevant facts were in the original article. And in any case, there are no indications the Romney campaign bothered to check out its preferred story before working it into his stump speech. In political terms, this goes directly to the heart of the argument Obama has been making about Romney to Ohioans about trust: That Romney can’t be trusted in a very fundamental way to level with them or genuinely look out for their interests, that he’ll tell them anything to win the election.
Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XLI: Can Mitt Romney lie his way to the White House? We’ll find out on Tuesday.
Romney repeats false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China; Chrysler refutes story: When you conflate a silly story from a Right-wing blogger into an irrefutable truth, you’re a liar.
Romney’s New Auto Ad: The sad thing is that Mitt Romney doesn’t trust the American people enough to be honest with them.
The Morning Plum: Romney’s false scare story in Ohio: If you’ve doubted that Romney’s a liar, this story should remove any doubt. He really will tell Americans literally anything to win the election.
Relying on a foundation of falsehoods: When you build your house on a foundation made of soft sand, you can’t claim to be surprised when that foundation begins to crumble beneath you.
I thought at the time, how hard could this be? Once a week, I’d let readers know about Romney’s whoppers, which I assumed would total about a half-dozen a week, and maybe after the election, I’d do a top 20 list of my favorites. The project would be a nice little Friday-afternoon feature.
Little did I know at the time that Romney would become an ambitious prevaricator, whose rhetoric would come to define post-truth politics…. I’ve published 40 installments in this series, which, before today, featured 884 falsehoods. (If you include today’s edition, the new total is 917 falsehoods for the year.)
I wish that were a typo. It’s not.
Mitt lied about Jeep because he has to lie. The truth would sink his campaign.: When you have to lie in order to feel that you have a chance to win, your ideas suck.
Romney Ratchets Up Auto Industry Myth: Radio Ad Claims Obama ‘Saved’ Auto Industry For China: When you have to lie in order to feel that you have a chance to win, your ideas suck.
Flailing in Ohio, Romney rolls out Jeep ploy: editorial: Desperate, dishonest, and willing to do and/or say whatever it takes to win. If nothing else, Mitt Rommey has amply demonstrated that he’s unfit to be President. If he can’t be honest with the American Sheeple on the campaign trail, how can we know that he’ll be honest as President?
A Dem source familiar with ad buy info tells me that the Romney campaign has now put a version of the spot 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.
Romney Doubles Down on Deceitful Jeep Ad in Ohio: Romney knows the truth is not on his side, and so he lies. And lies. And lies. And lies….
Romney Campaign Staged Donations At Storm Relief Event: In perhaps one of the most cynical, deceitful and thoroughly dishonest moments in a thoroughly cynical, deceitful and dishonest campaign, the Romney campaign has revealed itself to be devoid of both soul and conscience. It was never about caring, it was about creatin the appearance of caring.
The ignominious return of the welfare lie: Because a lie can travel around the world before the truth even drags itself out of bed.
Say Anything: Top Romney Surrogate Claims Romney Justices Won’t Kill Roe v. Wade: Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and their surrogates/apologists will literally say ANYTHING, no matter how pitiful, shameless, and/or dishonest, in order to win on Tuesday.
All Pants on Fire! statements involving Mitt Romney: It’s an impressive- and very disturbing list. Do we REALLY want a President who lies faster than the media can fact-check him??
Obama Dares to Say It: Romney Lies: How can you hope to maintain any credibility, much less hope to win, if you won’t call out Romney for what he is?
Editorial: Romney outsourcing the truth on Jeeps: America deserves better than a shameless, pathological liar for whom the truth is an inconvenience.
Romney Makes Closing Argument At Firm That Benefited From Stimulus Funds: Shameless. Deceitful. Mendacious. What else can you say??
