It turns out that the Romney campaign was right to claim that Fiat, who owns Chrysler, would be making Jeeps in China instead of America, even though the media disparaged that case at the time with PolitiFact going so far as to declare the ad "Lie of the Year." According to PolitiFact, the campaign falsely… Read more »
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Mitt Romney’s transition team spent $8.9 million in government money, $740,000 on furniture
Mitt Romney was the first presidential candidate in a position to make use of the Presidential Transition Act of 2010, and boy did he ever make use of it, to the tune of $ 8.9 million. The Presidential Transition Act gives presidential nominees resources to plan their transition to the presidency ahead of the actual… Read more »
MSNBC & Others Hype PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Award For One of Romney’s Accurate Campaign Ads
There has been no shortage of deceptive ads, factually-distorted statements, and outright fabrications from the political left over the campaign year to choose from, but leave it to the Tampa Bay Times's PolitiFact to give its "Lie of the Year" award to the Romney campaign. The now infamous "falsehood" in question was Romney's claim that… Read more »
‘Lie of the Year’ goes to Romney’s ‘Jeep’ ad
Political fact-checker PolitiFact announced its annual choice for “Lie of the Year” today. The winner: The controversial “Jeep” ad produced toward the tail end of the election by the Mitt Romney campaign. Explaining its choice, PolitiFact wrote: It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close… Read more »