Posted on 09/18/2008 4:17:15 PM PDT by Daffynition
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.
Busted Again! I’m sure Politico, the AP, NY Times, and the ComPost will be headlining these lies, right?
I thought Corning’s parent company was wiped out by asbestos lawsuits.
Heck, make them run an ad retracting their comments. Now that would be fun.
But in Obama’s Marxist world we would still need to be making CRT’s!
Oh so what? It may not be true in Corning’s case, but somewhere at some time a plant closed and moved to China. And since Bush is a lame duck, it’s all John McCain’s fault. Therefore the ad is perfectly fine./s
BTW, those people think that a majority of americans want them to run the country. God help us
Just like a lib, someone is doing his homework and he doesn’t even proof read it. I would image this was on his teleprompter so that doesn’t even help the moron!
So...remind me again, “Plugs” Biden, why I’m afraid of Obama because he’s so “gosh-darned smart!”
That was Dow Corning. Corning Glassworks is alive and well and make alot of nice labware (Flasks and such) I use everyday.
Another Obama lie exposed!!
MSM Covering the tracks for our savior.
Yep, fake but accurate.
That was Owens-Corning, and they filed and emerged from bankruptcy because of the asbestos litigation.
Corning, Inc. changed its name from Corning Glass. They are two separate companies.
I think Obama has seen “12 Monkeys” too many times because that’s the change he wants to bring to America.
i've been to that plant several times in the 80's and she's right... Corning is now only making glass for LCD, tv no more panels and funnels for crt's
you are thinking of Owens-Corning? Corning, Inc was Corning Glass not the same company. Corning, Inc is owned by the Houghton family and Amory Houghton is a Republican US Congressman.....
These large new LCD and Plasma TV's are energy hogs and are contributing to global warming. We should outlaw them and go back to CRTs. Then Corning can get tax breaks for creating "green jobs."
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