When the right started boiling over with charges of crony capitalism, regarding a little known auto brand, the Fisker, I ignored it. I have no problem covering Democratic Party scandals, but this one did not smell right, and I was confident that, as more information about the issue came out, the real facts would have little resemblance, if any, to Republican claims. Poor Willard! He etched a scandal and got caught!
“I am ashamed to say that we’re seeing our president hand out money to the businesses of campaign contributors, when he gave money, $500 million in loans to a company called Fisker that makes high-end electric cars, and they make the cars now in Finland. That is wrong and it’s got to stop. That kind of crony capitalism does not create jobs and it does not create jobs here.”
— Mitt Romney, Irwin, Pa., July 17
Hoping to turn attention away from questions about his departure from Bain Capital a decade ago, Mitt Romney has sought to focus attention on what he calls President Barack Obama’s “crony capitalism.”
The Fisker Automotive case keeps coming up, and Romney has now raised the stakes by asserting a connection between the loan and campaign contributors. (Fisker has developed a luxury plug-in electric sedan called the Karma that retails for $108,000, currently manufactured in Finland. It hopes to develop a $50,000 sedan , the Atlantic, that would be manufactured in Delaware.)… [emphasis added]
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Watch Willard lie:
In fact, the Washington Post gave him four Pinocchios. (It should have been four GWs.)
…Romney said the president gave money to “the businesses of campaign contributors.” Doerr is an important partner at Kleiner, and he has been an advocate for green energy, but it is a stretch to say it is his “business.” In fact, Ray Lane, who contributes mostly to Republicans, is an important Kleiner partner on this deal. Moreover, the money was raised before Obama became president.
Romney said Obama gave “$500 million in loans to a company called Fisker” — but it was a loan originally submitted under the Bush administration for a Bush administration program. He also said “they make cars now in Finland” — technically true, but in a way that suggests the taxpayer money went for that purpose, rather than for jobs and work in the United States.
Finally, Romney makes the leap that because of the “crony capitalism” — not proven — no jobs will be created. The company says jobs have been created, though the venture is still highly uncertain.
Romney’s phrasing has too many weasel words. An ordinary listener would believe that Obama paid off a contributor to build cars in Finland with U.S. taxpayer money, with no hope of U.S. jobs being created. That does not appear to be the case, at least as Romney has framed it.
We usually give some credit for a semblance to the truth, but the net effect of Romney’s words is too much. [emphasis added]
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Rachel Maddow went into detail exposing Willard’s lie, and explained how it reflects the state of his campaign.
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Now you know. Just like their now thoroughly debunked Fast and Furious scandal, Willard and the Republican Party are lying to manufacture another scandal. There is a reason Republicans use this tactic. They invent scandals, because they can find no real scandals they can use to distract attention from their own very real scandals. Their haste and sloppiness in crafting this one reflects their level of desperation as well as their incompetence.
It’s only been a year since Congressional Republicans, bent on cutting spending, manufactured a financial crisis by threatening not to raise the debt ceiling. Now, apparently thinking the public has forgotten that debacle, they’re furious that Democrats have figured out a way to turn the tables. 
Once again, the Romney campaign has demonstrated their disdain for the intelligence of the American voters by fabricating a quote from President Obama, turning it into something he did not say.
Allegations that top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is an operative for The Muslim Brotherhood are bull, Republican Sen. John McCain said today in a hands-across-the-aisle floor speech. 
“To say that the accusations [are] not substantiated by the evidence they offer is to be overly polite and diplomatic about it. It is far better, and more accurate, to talk straight: These allegations about Huma, and the report from which they are drawn, are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated American, and a loyal public servant," the Arizona senator said…
After the Senate fails again to advance the Disclose Act on Tuesday afternoon, it will immediately consider legislation that would discourage U.S. companies from hiring overseas, and encourage them to hire domestically.