Obama, Chrysler: Romney’s claim of ‘Eye-Talian owned’ Jeep outsourcing to China is false
Why would Romney mention the fact that an Italian owned company owns Jeep, in an aside way, to make it seem like a bad thing?
There is still anti-Italian racism out there? Thank God, France’s Renault did not buy what used to be Germany owned Jeep. That would have cost Obama the election on principal I assume……
http://www.freep.com/article/20121026/BUSINESS01/121026036/Obama-Chrysler-Romney-s-claim-of-Jeep-outsourcing-to-China-is-false?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney falsely claimed Thursday night that Chrysler Group may move all Jeep vehicle production to China, drawing criticism from the Obama campaign, which said the Michigan native had blatantly skewed a news wire story.
Romney’s comments came the same day that the Free Press reported that 1,100 new Chrysler workers will begin making the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs at a plant in Detroit next week.
‘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,’ Romney said during a rally in Defiance, Ohio, before 12,000 cheering supporters, according to several reports. ‘I will fight for every good job in America, I’m going to fight to make sure trade is fair, and if it’s fair, America will win.’
Romney apparently was referencing conservative bloggers who misinterpreted a Bloomberg story from Monday that discussed Chrysler’s decision to consider starting Jeep production in China, the world’s largest new-vehicle market.
That story, while accurate, sparked a raft of other stories and blogs that incorrectly concluded that Chrysler might close plants or move Jeep production from the U.S. to China.
Gualberto Ranieri, Chrysler’s vice president of communications, criticized those stories Thursday even before Romney made his comments.
‘Let’s set the record straight: Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China,’ Ranieri said. ‘It’s simply reviewing the opportunities to return Jeep output to China, for the world’s largest auto market. U.S. Jeep assembly lines will continue to stay in operation.’
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PS: The way Romney through out that line about “Italians owning Jeep” reminded me of this scene from The Godfather: Part 2:
PPS: Romney does that all the time I notice, throws out like a little aside comment, when he is speaking. His little “by the way”. Reminds me of W. Bush who kept saying “In other words…” and just repeated what he just said earlier but in more dumbed down way. I always thought he did that because that was how it was explained to him. In other words, Bush’s staff would describe the policy in technical terms then tell it to him again in some kindergarden analogy he could understand it in.
Thanks for listening to me vent. In other words, I know this is about Romney’s lie that Jeep is being outsourced to China but Romney’s Italian dog whistle really pissed me off.