Thursday, December 13, 2012
Mitt Romney Wins 'Lie of the Year'. (VIDEO)
"It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.
And they stood by the claim, even as the media and the public expressed collective outrage against something so obviously false."
Politifact, the Tampa Bay Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking project, "awarded" its top lies of the year. Rounding out the top? None other than Mitt Romney on Obama moving Jeep production to China. Cenk Uygur tells us about Romney's and some of the other top lies of 2012-- all of which come from Republicans.
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