Obama to FactCheck.org: Drop Dead!

[Odessa78]

The Obama campaign accuses Mitt Romney in new campaign ad of being a “pioneer in outsourcing,” repeating a charge that the Romney campaign has strenuously contested over the past week.

The ad refers back to a June Washington Post story that showed Bain Capital invested in firms that created jobs overseas. The Romney campaign demanded a retraction of the story, to no avail, and more recently pointed to a FactCheck.org analysis questioning the “outsourcing” charge.

The Obama campaign has dismissed the FactCheck.org assessment as inaccurate and penned a letter to the truth-squadding website disputing its conclusions. And its newest commercial re-ups the attack on Romney’s business record.

“What a president believes matters,” the ad begins. “Mitt Romney’s companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries. He supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.”

“President Obama believes in insourcing. He fought to save the U.S. auto industry and favors tax cuts for companies that bring jobs home. Outsourcing versus insourcing. It matters.”

The whole FactCheck.org/Politifact/Glenn Kessler approach to covering the campaign has its uses, but one of the limitations is that it often blurs the difference between standard-issue political rhetoric and brazen, obvious distortion of the facts. Right now, the Obama campaign is casting undisputed facts of Romney’s records (Bain assets created jobs overseas and also cut jobs in the U.S.) in a very negative light (it created foreign jobs at the cost of the U.S. economy.) Romney’s response so far has been to try and discredit the whole line of attack as false and “vicious,” without really getting into the weeds of what it means to lead a major financial firm with a complex web of foreign entanglements.



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[Chris0nllyn]

Why does it seem like elections have become nothing more than finger pointing and he said, she said?

[twinoaks207 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Chris0nllyn

Why does it seem like elections have become nothing more than finger pointing and he said, she said?

Because it has.


Oh, and I find it interesting that Obama et al didn't seem to have a problem with factcheck.org when it came to the information about his birth certificate. Perhaps it is only a good source when they agree with it?

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[Chris0nllyn]

Originally Posted by twinoaks207

Because it has.


Oh, and I find it interesting that Obama et al didn't seem to have a problem with factcheck.org when it came to the information about his birth certificate. Perhaps it is only a good source when they agree with it?

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Thought so.

No one likes something that disagrees with them, or proves them wrong.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Chris0nllyn

Why does it seem like elections have become nothing more than finger pointing and he said, she said?

Because they have.

[blacklabman]

If they were union jobs, all the better.

[Lurk]

Originally Posted by Odessa78

The whole FactCheck.org/Politifact/Glenn Kessler approach to covering the campaign has its uses, but one of the limitations is that it often blurs the difference between standard-issue political rhetoric and brazen, obvious distortion of the facts. Right now, the Obama campaign is casting undisputed facts of Romney’s records (Bain assets created jobs overseas and also cut jobs in the U.S.) in a very negative light (it created foreign jobs at the cost of the U.S. economy.) Romney’s response so far has been to try and discredit the whole line of attack as false and “vicious,” without really getting into the weeds of what it means to lead a major financial firm with a complex web of foreign entanglements.

What's especially glaring is the fact that Obama owes much of his history to the Annenberg Foundation (owners of FactCheck) since his early days as a community organizer. Remember that Obama met Bill Ayers through Annenberg and made his name in Chicago politics that way. I suspect this 'tempest in a teapot' is a ruse to disassociate Obama from Annenberg and Ayers for a more-tightly-contested re-election on Nov-Vem-Bur 6th.