{"id":8182,"date":"2012-06-28T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2012-06-28T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:51:42","slug":"romneys-whine-fails-as-swing-states-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/romneys-whine-fails-as-swing-states-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s Whine Fails as Swing States Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most millionaire vulture capitalists, like Willard, have huge wine cellars with bottles costing more than you or I make in a month.&#160; However, due to his beliefs, he is not a wine aficionado.&#160; Nevertheless, Willard makes up for it by being a connoisseur&#160; of whine, and whine he did.&#160; That horrid newspaper had the audacity to tell the truth about Willard\u2019s record.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"28whine\" border=\"0\" alt=\"28whine\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/28whine.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/>A spokesperson for The Washington Post said Wednesday the newspaper would not be retracting a controversial report about Mitt Romney&#8217;s tenure at Bain Capital despite a request from the candidate\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after members of Romney\u2019s staff met with senior editors in Washington on Wednesday afternoon to ask them to withdraw the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be issuing a retraction,&quot; Post communications director Kris Coratti said, adding she could not discuss additional details of the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>The Romney campaign has declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The article, published earlier this month, found that <strong>under Romney&#8217;s tenure, the venture capital firm he helmed invested in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/235123-romney-campaign-to-meet-with-washington-post-ask-for-retraction-of-bain-story\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell discussed this and updates campaign news with Krystal Ball and Steve Kornacki.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc678836\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=47989360^0^754321&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc678836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=47989360^0^754321&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; 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