{"id":14427,"date":"2012-06-24T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T01:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2012-06-24T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T01:40:47","slug":"the-fact-checker-must-have-been-on-vacation-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14427","title":{"rendered":"The Fact-checker Must Have Been On Vacation That Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/tom-blumer\/2012\/06\/22\/aeis-pethokoukis-slices-dices-and-destroys-wapos-romney-outsourcing-stor\">Newsbusters<\/a>\u00a0posted a fact-check on a Washington Post article that claimed that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> got rich by sending jobs overseas while he was at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bain Capital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baincapital.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Bain Capital<\/a>.\u00a0The story in the Washington Post\u00a0was a\u00a0good political\u00a0story&#8211;it just wasn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n<p>These are the actual facts from Newsbusters:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<strong>(Example 1) &#8230; What CSI (Computer Software Inc.) actually did was provide U.S. software developers with technical support and sales. Example: It provided domestic outsourcing \u2014 which is different than overseas offshoring \u2014 for call centers and help desks. As far as its international business goes, CSI was reseller of U.S. software in European markets. In other words, they helped distribute U.S. software around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(Example 2) &#8230; overseas call centers in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Washington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a> story (relating to Stream International Inc.) were based in Europe and Japan, and serviced <\/strong><em><strong>international customers of U.S. companies in their local languages.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(Example 3) &#8230; what Modus Media did was help companies like Microsoft and IBM sell their products internationally. Products destined for American consumers were manufactured here at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(Example 4) &#8230; GT Bicycles had overseas suppliers before Bain invested in the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(Example 5) &#8230; (printed circuit board manufacturer) SMTC wasn\u2019t even acquired until months after Romney left Bain Capital. Is Romney running for president or is Bain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(Example 6) &#8230; (computer chipmaker and tester) Chippac was purchased in March 1999, a month after Romney left Bain Capital. Prior owner was Hyundai, a South Korean company that already had factories in Asia at the time of sale. So buying a company with foreign factories is the same, apparently, as \u201cshipping jobs overseas,\u201d according to the Washington Post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pay attention&#8211;we are definitely in the midst of the silly season.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=19559a97-a6f7-4d22-8938-bfc0153bc700\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Newsbusters\u00a0posted a fact-check on a Washington Post article that claimed that Mitt Romney got rich by sending jobs overseas while he was at Bain Capital.\u00a0The story in the Washington Post\u00a0was a\u00a0good political\u00a0story&#8211;it just wasn&#8217;t true. These are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3322,3147,3323,352,1673,1134],"class_list":["post-14427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bain","tag-bain-capital","tag-fact-checking-the-washington-post","tag-mitt-romney","tag-romney","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14428,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions\/14428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}