Both the Obama and Romney campaigns are playing fast and loose with auto industry facts as they play hardball for votes in Ohio and Michigan before the Nov. 6 election.<\/p>\n
But Michigan’s partisan MSM is only reporting Romney’s distortions.<\/p>\n
In a heated exchange in the final presidential debate, President Obama falsely accused Romney of wanting GM and Chrysler to go out of business. When Romney protested, Obama shot back “People will look it up.” People did and Obama was wrong – as the record plainly records (in interviews with this reporter, The Detroit News, a New York Times op-ed, etc.) that Romney favored government support to help the Detroit companies through bankruptcy . And just to poison the waters with a little xenophobia, Obama also smeared: “If we had taken your advice Gov. Romney about our auto industry, we’d be buying cars from China instead of selling cars to China.”<\/p>\n
Michigan’s major media was virtually silent.<\/p>\n
For example, The Detroit Free Press – which has routinely policed Romney on its front page for opposing the UAW bailout – ignored Obama’s distortions, Sam Donaldson repeated Obama’s lie on WJR-Radio, and a\u00a0MLIve.com endorsement<\/a>\u00a0of Obama also falsely accused Romney of wanting the industry to disappear.<\/p>\n