hue and cry about death panels and helicopter squads. he didn t even look at it. and the winner of politic facts 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.
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
story. there s two issues here. one is the policy issue the republicans moved so far to the right. one that dan frooum kin is hammering that i wrote a lot about to is there s an asymmetry of the lying. give me a couple of examples. i wrote a piece which is in keeping with what dan wrote saying that i thought the romney campaign was much more foundational in its lies about obama. and by that i mean that the core of his campaign, the core of his argument, obama promised to lower unemployment below 8%. not true. obama appeases, not true. obama went on an apology tour, not true. obama went to cut $5 billion off medicare. not true. a lot of his key arguments and of course the jeep ad at the end which has been declared the number one lie of the year. the one that offends me the
people with his health care plan. you don t have the president coming out saying i paid for this ad because he didn t even look at it. anyway, the lie of the year comes from the romney campaign saying president obama was responsible for jobs, cheep jobs, being sent over to china. something that never happened. here s parts of it. let s listen. obama took gm and kries ler into bankruptcy and sold chrysler who were going to build jeeps in china. mitt romney will fight for every american job. of course, that s the jeep ad, michael crowley. sometimes these guys get caught in realtime because the governor of the state and everybody said 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 making jeeps in china.
for chinese. right. right. it made perfect sense. a lot of auto-companies do this. obviously, that s the clear implication of the ad. so the fundamental message is a lie. they just covered thems enough with the language. maybe they thought they wouldn t get called out on it. i think they were desperate to win ohio. maybe it was a net loss. i think it s one of those things like voter suppression. whiplash against it. thank you so much, michael. thank you, jonathan. same with you. when we return, let me finish with the ultimate triumph this year of, believe it or not. these deals all seem great at the time. but later. [ shirt ] merry christmas, everybody! not so much. ho ho ho! this isn t that kind of deal. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on ground shipping at fedex office.