WASHINGTON – It’s become a case of the unsubstantiated vs. the discredited.
Mitt Romney’s never-supported boast to have created more than 100,000 jobs as a venture capitalist has been countered by an attack film so flawed that the Republican presidential rival it was meant to help, Newt Gingrich, has asked the sponsoring political action committee to correct it or take it out of circulation.
Meanwhile, voters are no farther ahead in knowing whether Romney’s work at Bain Capital — a complex record of company start-ups, revivals, flops and shutdowns — cost more jobs than it created, though there is gathering evidence it was not as rosy as he has portrayed.
Into the mix: “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” a dark tale casting Romney as a rapacious profiteer who makes vultures look like songbirds.
The 28-minute film, bankrolled by the Gingrich-friendly Winning Our Future super PAC, blames Romney for company shutdowns he had no part in and twists interviews with laid-off factory workers to convey resentments against him that didn’t exist.
Just as Romney ignored the negative side of the ledger in his bragging, the film ignores the positive side. It does not back up its claim that “nearly every US state
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