Senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie said that the Washington Post reporter who wrote a story on Bain Capital investing in firms that facilitating outsourcing got his facts wrong. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, Gillespie said that in the article, called “Romney’s Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas,” “confused the notion of outsourcing.”
According to the article, Bain Capital invested in companies that helped other companies ship jobs overseas during Romney’s tenure.
“This was incredibly shoddy journalism. The fact is, this was a breathless headline over a baseless story,” Gillespie said Sunday. “I would encourage you to have the reporter on your show. I hope he goes on a lot of shows. And ask him to demonstrate one of the companies that was cited in that article that moved American jobs overseas while Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital… and I don’t believe you’ll find that he can cite any. So it’s just factually inaccurate.”
Gillespie said that the campaign reviewed the companies mentioned in the artcle and that they believed the information was wrong. He went on to claim that the reporter didn’t understand what outsourcing meant, and that Bain-owned companies outsourced domestically, but not offshore, as part of their business model. He disregarded the claim that Bain worked with companies facilitating others to outsource, as the article says.
“But I think what happened in this story, near as we can tell, is that the reporter confused the notion of outsourcing. Now a lot of American companies outsource, they outsource domestically.”
