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City Lights

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Fri Jan 6, 2012, 08:30 AM Jan 2012

TPM: Romney’s Claim To Be A Job Creator Hits The Skids [View all]

Brian Beutler January 6, 2012, 5:30 AM

Mitt Romney’s effort to disguise one of his biggest political liabilities has hit a major snag — one that may force him to abandon his most effective but misleading talking points about his work in the private sector..

Romney makes two different, but implicitly entwined claims: That while working in corporate management he created over 100,000 jobs and that — by comparison — Obama his presided over millions of job losses.

This is a false juxtaposition, based on two false claims. And so far, precious few reporters have pressed Romney or his campaign about it. But in the past several days, the veneer of plausibility has begun to peel leaving the candidate highly exposed to backlash from the press.

Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, and Washington Monthly blogger Steve Benen have been Romney’s (and the press’) most consistent critics on this issue. After bringing it to light, Post fact checker Glenn Kessler buttonholed a Romney spokesman about the first claim — and found it to be unsubstantiated. It’s true only if you count Romney-managed companies that later hemorrhaged jobs.

Read the rest at TPM.com


I'm glad at least some in the media are calling him on his absurd claim. Let's hope more join in and keep up the pressure.
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Krugman is also on this today JHB Jan 2012 #1
Thanks...reading it now. City Lights Jan 2012 #4
Romney is lying in the Republicon tradition SpiralHawk Jan 2012 #2
I guress the Alternate Reality isn't working so well liberal N proud Jan 2012 #3
... Stratetalker Jan 2012 #5
I follow Sargent on Tweeter and Inuca Jan 2012 #6
..... Icicle Jan 2012 #7
Challenge lies? Hey, that's not the media's job.... Scuba Jan 2012 #8
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