What is Mitt Romnrey Hiding? #5 – ‘Politifact: Mitt Romney’s companies sent jobs overseas’
The now VERY common response from Republicans on Bain Captial ‘outsourcing’ is that Politifact said it’s not true.
Ummmm………….
I guess now they’ll just have to go back to switching the conservation to another topic and hope no one notices.
“Mitt Romney’s companies sent jobs overseas.”
‘Is that statement true or false’?
‘It passed mostly unnoticed, but on Friday, a well-respected fact-checking organization — one cited by the Romney campaign itself on occasion — essentially agreed that this is a defensible assertion’.
‘In its Friday piece, Politifact gave a “half true” rating to the following Obama campaign claim: “Mitt Romney’s companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.”
‘But if you dig deep into the piece, you find that the main reason for the “half” true rating was the Obama camp’s claim that Romney’s companies “pioneered” this practice’.
‘Politifact disagreed with that’.
‘But Politifact agreed that it’s fair game to describe these as “Romney’s companies.”
‘But Politifact notes that the distinction is beside the point’:
‘[t]he exact month that Romney stepped away from Bain makes little difference. When Modus Media closed that plant in California in 2000, it was making the kind of move Romney and Bain expected when they first got behind it’.
‘Matthew Rice, Chief Investment Officer for DiMeo Schneider and Associates, a Chicago-based investment consulting firm, says he doesn’t see how Romney can divorce himself from the strategies that made Bain profitable’.
‘We find reasonable grounds for labeling the companies as “Romney’s.”
‘If picking a company makes it yours, then these were Romney’s companies and in a general sense, they did what he expected them to do’.
From : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/politifact-mitt-romneys-companies-sent-jobs-overseas/2012/07/16/gJQAuttmoW_blog.html
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