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Romney Vs. Jeep: Lie Of The Year
- Detroit Bureau, Friday, December 14, 2012 8 AM
PolitiFact has selected Mitt Romney’s claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China” at the cost of American jobs as the 2012 “Lie of the Year.” The site itself has notably been praised for holding politicians on all sides of the spectrum accountable for comments, claims and ads. “It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign — that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood." The Drudge Report, of course, ran with it.
