Who's doing Obama's fact checking?

[MissusDe]

Corning Inc. blasts Obama ad

CORNING - A campaign ad by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has drawn fire from Corning Incorporated over its reference to the 2004 closure of a Corning glass plant.

In the commercial, a narrator blames Republican opponent John McCain for sending jobs overseas to China, including jobs at the glass plant in State College, Pennsylvania.

"Corning shuts down its plant in Pennsylvania, hundreds lose their jobs, then the workers are rehired to disassemble the plant and ship the equipment to China.  Washington sold them out with the help of people like John McCain," the ad states.

However, Corning Inc. spokeswoman Kelli Hopp-Michlosky said those jobs were never sent to China.  She said the plant closed because it made cathode ray tubes, and since the company no longer makes CRTs, those jobs were not needed elsewhere.

"We have been in touch with the Obama campaign on this expressing our displeasure and presenting all the facts so they see how misleading the ad appears.  We will continue to speak with them on this," Mopp-Michlosky said

A phone call to the Obama campaign seeking comment was not immediately returned.

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=ba3fc702-938a-4760-af0d-9ea147e5018f

[Xavier_Onassis]

What do they use instead of CRT'S?
Liquid crystal or plasma screens.

Where are they made?
China.

[BT]

How is McCain responsible for this?

[Michael Tee]

<<How is McCain responsible for this?>>

I dunno.  Maybe by not levying excise taxes where warranted, i.e. where the imported goods are made by new hires in China approximately equal in productivity to the Chinese exporter's recently fired American workers?

Where there's a will, there's a way.  Unfortunately the only will that McCain ever had was to enrich his corporate pals even if it meant pauperizing the American working class.

Corning, as XO so astutely pointed out, is full of shit.  They downsized in America and let the manufacturing go to China.  Now they have the fucking balls to attack Obama for exposing their shitty little schemes.

Corning, McCain and their allies in the world of big business and political crypto-fascism have gotten away with their shit for as long as they have because of the abysmal stupidity of the American people.  It may be that because of the internet that people don't have to be the prisoners of their own ignorance any longer.   Ideas are being exchanged that in the MSM would never see the light of day.  It's just barely possible that McSame and Corning and their ilk are in for a really, really big surprise.

[Plane]

My great grandfather was a wainwright , I wonder which country got his job?

[Amianthus]

Corning, as XO so astutely pointed out, is full of shit.  They downsized in America and let the manufacturing go to China.  Now they have the fucking balls to attack Obama for exposing their shitty little schemes.

Because they didn't want to get into another line of business?

You gonna blame McDonalds for not making fabric, too?

[BT]

They downsized in America and let the manufacturing go to China.  Now they have the fucking balls to attack Obama for exposing their shitty little schemes.

What dirty little scheme. Specifics please.

[Xavier_Onassis]

My great grandfather was a wainwright , I wonder which country got his job?

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The Japanese. Cars and trucks replaced wagons.

It he worked for Studebaker, that made more wagons than any other company, it was absorbed by American Motors, then that was absorbed into Chrysler, which was eaten by Daimler-Benz, and spit out into the Cereberus Corp.