try to push the solyndra thing all that hard. now that republicans have given up on it and we know he has such a bad hypocrisy problem on the issue. he is running it with. you re going to hear about all the companies in massachusetts that he shoveled taxpayer money into and they went bust. you re going to hear all about how mitt romney did what president obama did and by the way, here s a nice reminder implicitly that he was not a particularly successful governor of massachusetts and not just a rich business guy. so it s kind of a mess for him to be pushing this at all. that s problem one. here s the bigger problem though. it is the problem of the lying. at that solyndra stunty photo op thing today, mitt romney told a bald faced lie right off the bat. it was blunt. two years ago president obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of the success of his stimulus.
you need to provide relief for homeowners. it s going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. that s what the first anti-obama mitt romney ad of the general election campaign quoted the president as saying. if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. here s what president obama actually said. senator mccain s campaign actually said, and i quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. that s not politics. that that s a lie. he was quoting somebody else. he was reading somebody else s words in order to criticize them and mitt romney in his camp edited the sound to make it seem like it was something that president obama said for himself. that is not just standard political slime. that is an outright schoolyard lie. and it s kind of crazy to think that you would get away with that, right? when the ad first came out in
so just like mitt romney lied in his very first ad, in a really blunt, schoolyard kind of way. they re now lying in the new ad that is about solyndra and mitt romney is lying about it personally out of his face at his big campaign stunt today. if you don t care that he had his own solyndra, what he is saying about this scandal that he is hypocritically trying to lay on the obama administration is just blantantly not true. it is a lie. it is a checkable thing. he says something was concluded by a inspector general that was never concluded by a inspector general. it is not true. that seems important given that he s running for president. even on a busy newsday. even after you ve been driven to the president s photo op with a blindfold on, even on a crazy day in american politics like today with the return of george bush and the nonreturn of dick cheney and even like the john edwards verdict in the middle of it, even in this nuts day in american politics, don t you
well, you can see that it s a symbol of something very different today. it s a symbol not of success but of failure. it s also a symbol of a serious conflict of interest, an independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded that the administration had steered money to friends and family to campaign contributors. that is not true. and inspector general did not look into the investment in solyndra and conclude that administration had steered money to friends and family. that did not happen. that is a lie. michael greenwald is writing a book about the stimulus. he wrote about this turn in the mitt romney campaign today. but it hasn t really been picked up anywhere else. i m surprised this is not a bigger story. no real reporter who s ever followed this solyndra story as republicans have tried to make it a big deal would have missed that damning detail.
issue. he is running it with. you re going to hear about all the companies in massachusetts that he shoveled taxpayer money into and they went bust. you re going to hear all about how mitt romney did what president obama did and by the way, here s a nice reminder implicitly that he was not a particularly successful governor of massachusetts and not just a rich business guy. so it s kind of a mess for him to be pushing this at all. that s problem one. here s the bigger problem though. it is the problem of the lying. at that solyndra stunty photo op thing today, mitt romney told a bald faced lie right off the bat. it was blunt. two years ago president obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of the success of his stimulus. well, you can see that it s a symbol of something very different today. it s a symbol not of success but