Glenn Kessler, responsable de la rubrique The Fact Checker du Washington Post, accorde quatre Pinocchios à la promesse de Mitt Romney de «créer 12 millions d'emplois» au cours des quatre prochaines années, s'il est élu à la présidence. Autrement dit, cet engagement répété dans la pub ci-dessus ne pourrait s'écarter davantage de la vérité, selon Kessler, que je cite dans le texte :
This is a case of bait-and-switch. Romney, in his convention speech, spoke of his plan to create "12 million new jobs," which the campaign's white paper describes as a four-year goal.
But the candidate's personal accounting for this figure in this campaign ad is based on different figures and long-range timelines stretching as long as a decade - which in two cases are based on studies that did not even evaluate Romney's economic plan. The numbers may still add up to 12 million, but they aren't the same thing - not by a long shot.