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Fox Hides Backlash To Romney's Inaccurate Jeep-To-China Ad Campaign
Blog ››› 5 hours and 32 minutes ago ››› MIKE BURNS
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[link to mediamatters.org]
In a Fox News report about campaign events Mitt Romney is holding in key battleground states, chief correspondent Carl Cameron noted recent polling in Ohio and described the Romney campaign's "final sprint," set to begin in that state. Yet not once did Cameron make note of the backlash Romney is facing for running campaign ads in Ohio that falsely claim Chrysler is sending a Jeep production line from the United States to China.
During his report, Cameron pointed out how polls show Romney trailing in Ohio but that the Romney campaign "would argue that the ground game will put them over the top and that they're ready to win this."
But Cameron neglected to mention that Romney has drawn heavy criticism for running ads in Ohio that falsely claim Jeep is sending U.S. jobs to China.
At an Ohio rally on October 26, Romney said that he "saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep -- now owned by the Italians -- is thinking of moving all production to China." The Detroit News reported that Romney was apparently responding to reports "on right-leaning blogs that misinterpreted a recent Bloomberg News story earlier this week that said Chrysler, owned by Italian automaker Fiat SpA, is thinking of building Jeeps in China for sale in the Chinese market."
The following day, Romney's campaign began running a television ad in Ohio repeating the same claim -- that Chrysler is going to move Jeep production to China. The ad left "the misleading impression that the move would come at the expense of jobs here," The New York Times explained.
Chrysler, Jeep's parent company, quickly denied claims that it was considering moving Jeep production from the United States to China. The Toledo Blade reported:
Chrysler is strongly denying a report the company was considering moving all of its Jeep production to China.
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