and the winner of politifact s lie of the year comes from a romney campaign in a tv ad that basically said president obama was responsible for jeep jobs being sent over to china, something that never happened. here is part of it. let s listen. obama took gm and chrysler into bankruptcy and sold chrysler to italians who are going to build jeeps in china. mitt romney will fight for everyone american job. i m mitt romney and i approved this message. of course, that s the jeep ad, michael crowley. sometimes these guys get caught in realtime, because the governor of this state and everybody said it didn t happen. right. well, chris, this is one of those wonderful examples where something can be factually accurate and still a complete lie. in other words, the language in that ad i believe stands up. that chrysler was going to begin, again, making jeeps in china, for chinese? right, right. it made perfect sense. a lot of auto companies do this. they weren t going to be moving
i m afraid it s probably a long trend line. our percentage of union membership in the state is supposedly down to around 17%, if you can believe that. and michigan was considered the cradle of unionism. so, you know, unions are under assault. not just in the private sector, chris, but the public sector unions. remember, right to work yesterday has effected the entire public sector union movement. and that s where most of the membership and growth has been in the union movement in the last decade or two. okay. it s great having you on. bill, i hear you re a great reporter. and mr. geiss, good luck on your career. one of those on the far right richard mourdock is still pointing fingers after losing the senate race in indiana. sounds like sore loser. this is hardball the place for politics. new trident layers juicy berry + tangy tangerine
it all the time. i see welfare queens and food stamp talk. it s the same ol it s not even code. it s direct. my thought. yours? it s pretty direct. no, you re right here, chris, and i m glad that we can move beyond this ad. this ad has been debunked this ad has been debunked across the board. joe scarborough came against the ads as being inaccurate. why are they used? there are racial codes inherent about public assistance and welfare. we can talk about the history of welfare queens and the ways in which welfare has been racialized historically. once we realize they re not accurate, we have to conclude that the romney campaign has a sinister strategy here about welfare and public assistance being only used and exploited and fraudulently used sometimes by people of color. you know, sam, i remember during the primary campaign it got heated, and i enjoyed it. it got so heated for a while there. people said obama was the food
he was talking on knob hill, at a fancy part of san francisco, talking to people who thing like that, and talking to them in their language, and he got caught on tape talking like them, right? but the rest of his message, that was a terrible thing to say, chris, but the rest of his message was that these people have been abandoned and they were also abandoned by the democratic party because we went too far to business and wall street. so there s lots of things he can do. talking to the contributors can ruin your language. anyway, thank you were. the book, i love the green cover. there it is for joan walsh, appropriately covered in green. what s the matter with white people? i have to go get that book. when we return, let me finish with why the republican rejection of science is downright, i ll say it, un-american. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. hello.rings what the. what the. what the. are you seein this? uh-huh. uh-huh. uh-huh. it kinda makes
that s the news. to say to have a third party. that s always very hard. right, right. so they want him out. he s not going. they re stuck. what this do, mark? you re an expert how things develop on television. what happens if we have a thunderstorm down there, maybe a hurricane isaac coming into town. everything but frogs i guess are coming to the republican convention. what happens if this is the story percolating all through monday morning into the heart of the convention, this issue of this guy? that s why it s problematic, chris, and that s why we ve such a quick and broad consensus among republican leadership and grassroots people from hannity to rush. it off the table before monday so they can get on to issues. i think he stays in. i think he s very much i hope he stays in as a democrat. there s no higher authority to him than the higher authority. i don t think these jokers and the so-called republican