re: #79 Killgore Trout

Romney to seek Washington Post retraction

I think Mitt will get his retraction. Politifact, factcheck and even WaPo’s own factchecker all agree the claims aren’t true.

Glenn Kessler didn’t dispute their Tom Hamburger story, he instead tried to make a distinction between it and the Obama Campaign ad because he complains they cited Romney’s Bain “grey area” too much in their sourcing:

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“I see no reason to change the rating at this point,” Kessler said in an e-mail. “The ad was based on specific allegations that were incorrect, relating to the fact that the Obama people took advantage of the grey area between 1999 and 2002 regarding Romney’s involvement in Bain.”

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“Unlike the Obama campaign, he was careful to only look at things in the pre-1999 context,” Kessler said. “And to be clear, there is a distinction between saying someone is responsible for shipping jobs overseas (the ad) and saying someone invested in companies that specialized in helping companies subcontract work to overseas factories (Tom’s story).”