http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/22/12359704-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xxiii?fb_ref=.T-aRe5TkCjc.like&fb_source=home_multiline For those who are watching the 2012 presidential race closely, Mitt Romney's penchant for falsehoods is hard to miss. Michael Cohen summarized the issue nicely this week in
a piece for The Guardian:
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this statement is pretty darn ironic considering the purpose of your post.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/romney-auto-bailout-cheap_n_1610779.html
He's insisted throughout the 2012 campaign that the government never needed to bail out the auto companies, just shuttle them quickly through managed bankruptcy. But the argument ignores the role that government funds played in keeping those companies intact so they could make it to the managed bankruptcy process.
That would have effectively destroyed them...they would not have recovered without gvmt intervention - let alone as well as they did.
I dont think its ironic, nor a falsehod on the level of the itms on this list
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all your doing is propagating the same kind of misleading statements you accuse romney of making. it kind of defeats the purpose of the post.
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your comment just demonstrates the inherent hypocrisy in hyper partisan posts and politics.
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It even explains why those statements are false.
And again -- you're trying to equivocate here: My statement is arguable but not necessarily untrue; Romney's statements are very much untrue. Trying to make these things equal, or have the validity of 30+ cited points somehow have the same value as an arguable statement -- *that* seems more hypocritical to me.
You're using a statement that wasnt even part of the article, and trying to make that statement be the focus *instead of* the article, and then by disagreeing with that statement -- somehow the other 30 point are to be ignored or invalidated?
I'll even withdraw that statement if it makes you feel better. We still have 30+ documented Romney lies to contend with.
Does that somehow make my position weaker?
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And what's amazing is you are going to come down on my "wording" when I just presented an article with 30 points showing blatant falsehoods and distortions by your boy Romney!
Yousure you want to talk about biased?
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your untrue statement just demonstrates the inherent hypocrisy in these kinds of hyper partisan posts. that makes your position weaker.
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I think not. But it does make for a good reason to ignore the things Romney is saying for too many people out there...
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But the billions of dollars from the federal bailout helped the bankruptcy process get done in about two months, much faster than anyone thought was possible, said Van Conway, CEO of Conway MacKenzie, a restructuring firm in Detroit. And Conway said the idea of a managed bankruptcy was not unique at the time. "Romney might very well have had the idea, but it's not an idea no one else had on their own," Conway said. Other supporters of the bailouts, and even some critics of them, say that Romney deserves no credit for the turnaround, given that he opposed the federal bailout that kept the companies alive during the bankruptcy process. Without that $81 billion in funding, the companies would have been forced to go out of business and liquidate, according to those experts. "There was no way they could get financing," said Conway. "They were burning money so fast, with no end in site, that no one but the government was going to give them money."
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