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The mainstream US media discourse on this is dishonest too, to say the least. Remember Politifact's 2012 lie of the year, the Romney campaign's claim that Chrys
by makomk 8y ago
The mainstream US media discourse on this is dishonest too, to say the least. Remember Politifact's 2012 lie of the year, the Romney campaign's claim that Chrysler was moving Jeep production to China? After it turned out that Chrysler was in fact setting up a Jeep factory in China, pretty much the entire US media insisted that the claim was still a lie because they were only building Jeeps there because of tariffs, as though those tariffs were some inevitable fact of life rather than an example of Chinese protectionism.
- cma 8y agoRomney's claim was after the news story about setting up a factory, not before (your chronology is wrong). And he said they would move all production to China based on a mis-interpretation of the story: "I saw a story today, that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China," He said all production, not some of it. He was riffing on a public news report that didn't say what he said it did.