The Real Mitt Romney

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the real mitt romney: deceptive and misleading.

The key line is in the ad asserts that while President Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China, Mitt Romney will fight for every American job." It doesn't explicitly say that Jeep will move American jobs to China, but the rhetorical contrast that it sets up with Romney allegedly fighting "for every American job" it is clear that the ad is intended to convince viewers that under Obama, Jeep is going to shift production overseas. That's simply not true.
The fact that Romney chose his words with a clear eye towards maintaining plausible deniability is actually more disturbing than if he had simply gotten his facts wrong. Everybody makes mistakes; the test is whether you correct them. When Romney claimed Jeep was considering moving all of its production to China, he got called out for it. But instead of correcting his false claim or at least dropping it, his campaign tweaked the language of the claim to be less egregious (in isolation) but equally deceptive (in context).