During the 2012 campaign, Romney ran an ad that said Chrysler, which had received bailout from American taxpayers, was going to start producing Jeeps in China.
PolitiFact labeled this “The Lie of the Year.”
Funny thing is … the ad is absolutely 100% true. The Obama administration did play a hand in selling Chrysler to Italians who were planning to build Jeeps in China.
PolitiFact quibbles that the Romney campaign had been “crafty” with its word choice, giving the “impression” that all Jeep production, and therefore American jobs, were being moved to China. Ergo, Romney Lied!
And people probably died … or something.
Why? Because in LiberalSpeak, when conservatives are misquoted, taken totally out of context, or simply lied about, FAKE is the same as ACCURATE.
Because like, you know, dog whistles.
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Speaking of lies… I’m going to cut-and-paste here a response I left to a commenter on my personal blog who claimed, “You seem to have completely left out the effects of the worst market failure since the Great Depression, and the Republican-backed policies that led up to it.”
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Taurus Fimus!
Republicans tried to prevent the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It was Democrats who passed the Community Reinvestment Act, Democrats who expanded it, Democrats who cooked the books at Fannie and Freddie as other Democrats pressured banks to make more and more of those high-risk loans, and Democrats who prevented Republican attempts at reform:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXfAPyHpPZk
Let’s look at the big picture, from January 1995 to present, for the Employment-Population Ratio:
For 12 continuous years, Republicans held majority control of Washington, D.C. (they held 2+ out of 3 of the House, Senate, and Presidency). During that time, the average level of employment over 144 straight months was 63.3%, and never went below 62.0%.
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, one could truly say that he “inherited” the economy, because he had not been a part of the Congress that helped create that economy. And what he inherited was the Dot Com bust, followed shortly thereafter by the 9/11/2001 attacks, which created an economic double whammy. Employment was decreasing in 2001, 2002, and early 2003, and it was not until the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts were signed into law that the economy turned around, employment rose, and tax revenues rose along with that rising employment. The low point of employment in 2003 was 62.0% in September 2003. By December 2006, employment was up to 63.4%. Thanks in large part to the Bush Tax Cuts, the economy grew, employment grew, and tax revenues grew. Tax revenues in FY 2007 were a whopping 44% larger than FY 2003 revenues! That was the effect of Republican-backed policies.
Again, employment in the last month of the Republican majority was 63.4%… even after inheriting the Dot Com bust and the 9/11 attacks, Bush was able to turn the economy around and finish the Republican majority with an employment percentage that was slightly higher than the 12-year Republican majority average (which was 63.3%).
That improvement hit an inflection point when the balance of power shifted from Republican to Democrat on January 3, 2007. Democrats raised the minimum wage 3 times, in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and while may sound good to you, the fact is that whenever the minimum wage is raised, some people who would have been employed at minimum wage previously do not end up making more, but rather end up unemployed. There is a reason why youth unemployment is higher now than it was 6 years ago. The financial crisis of 2008 of course increased unemployment (/decreased employment), but again Republicans had warned of, and tried to stop, that crisis, but Democrats thwarted attempts at reform and additional oversight.
We’ve now had six continuous years of Democrats holding majority control of Washington, D.C.
Average employment over those six years has been 60.0%, and we haven’t had a month above that average since February 2009.
The average over the four years of Obama’s first term was 58.7%, and we haven’t had a month above that average since August 2009.
One really can’t say that Obama “inherited” an economy on January 20, 2009, because he had been a Senator since January 3, 2005 and helped create that economy. When Democrats in Congress took majority control on January 3, 2007, they inherited a GOOD economy.
But, even if one insists on saying Barack H. Obama “inherited” a bad economy from George W. Bush on January 20, 2009, that economy was a lot better than the one that Barack H. Obama “inherits” from himself today (January 20, 2013). The economy now, after Obama’s first 4 years, is worse than it was 4 years ago.
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Red, I think I speak for all when I say THANK YOU for taking the time to drop in here and share you missionary work. I hope it’s a bit of a respite for you, who goes out and does battle against the powers of evil and ignorance. This article you wrote is a brilliant, concise and accurate summation of the entire situation.
Now I shall go make myself a cup of joe and while it is brewing, I will ponder the possible ways in which the deceived could respond. 1) Plug ears and sing LA LA LA LA very loudly. 2) Turn purple with a stroke-level bp rise and spew spittle on the monitor with rage. 3) Read, ponder … feel faint and dizzy, take a whiff of smelling salts and return to imbibing truth … proceed to surf Conservative sites previously treated as if infected by plague and get enlightened.
I truly believe we are in a spiritual war here and that every time we are given the opportunity to speak truth, some souls are saved. May God continue to bless you, Red.
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Since I absolutely refuse to turn on any television or radio today and over the weekend as well, I realize that It has not been hard to do. In fact, I realized that thanks to Polination and Pete and Chrissy and Bob that I really never do consume much media in the normal way anymore. And yet – I still feel informed. Thanks, everyone!
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You are very welcome. Anything I can do to keep people from having their hearts and minds sullied by the corrupt MSM is a gold star next to my name in God’s Book of Life. 🙂 (Or so I hope.)
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I think you have many. many gold stars there, Chrissy.
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I just googled Taurus Fimus. ROFLLL. Gotta go see what “donkey” is in Latin. … Oh duh. Asinus. LOLOL
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