419 Myth Mary Ann

We haven’t seen the “Mary Ann Knowles” chemotherapy-myth ad from Kerry around here. The myth the Kerry people are touting here in Ohio is that Bush is shipping jobs offshore. Pathetically angry actor/workers gnash their teeth over an Indian with good English taking jobs. This is one ad I’m surprised the Republicans don’t speak out about and identify the big lie. Maybe they aren’t lies at the level of Kerry's Purple Heart, or his Senate testimony as an angry ex-soldier, but they are lies, and they are more recent.

Even Kerry-friendly fact checking websites know it is incorrect and have said so. The legislation that encourages US corporations to set up shop elsewhere is decades old and President Bush had nothing to do with it. Plus, they left because corporations were being taxed out of competition with foreign companies. Do you suppose “President” Kerry will lower taxes on corporations?

“US manufacturing employment was in decline for nearly three years before Bush became President. It actually declined by 544,000 between the peak reached in March, 1998 and when Clinton left office, even as the economy added nearly 7.8 million jobs in all categories during the climax of a roaring economic boom that ended a few weeks after Bush was sworn in. In fact, 238,000 of those manufacturing jobs were lost in Clinton's last six month alone, showing that the decline was well-established even before Bush had spent a day in office.” (FactCheck.org August 11, 2004)

FactCheck.org has numerous examples of the Kerry ads attributing words to Bush he never said.