The Romney campaign responded to The Washington Post's story on Romney's Bain Capital shipping jobs overseas by saying the correct term is "offshoring," not "outsourcing."
After that pathetic rebuttal inevitably failed to change the narrative or sway public opinion, the Romney campaign sought a retraction of the entire story from The Washington Post. The Post met with Team Romney today and denied their request.
The Washington Post’s top editors just wrapped up a meeting with Romney officials to discuss the campaign’s request for a retraction of the paper’s story on Bain Capital’s outsourcing.
“We are very confident in our reporting,” Washington Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti told TPM after the meeting, adding that appointments with people concerned about coverage are common.
In case you missed it, this is the story the Romney campaign was seeking a retraction of.
Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.
During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Team Romney effort to refute this story was a complete disaster.
Eric "etch-a-sketch" Fernstrom said Romney was responsible for "offshoring," not outsourcing, and that offshoring is actually good for America.
Ed Gillespie said what Bain Capital did was no different than the Obama campaign outsourcing calls to the state of Nebraska.
This epic blunder culminated today with the failed effort to convince The Washington Post to retract the story. A move which needlessly drew attention to subject again.
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