Romney tries to Solyndraize Tesla Motors, calling it a 'loser'(torquenews.com)

6 pointsby supercoptervor 14 Jahren6 comments

Romney tries to Solyndraize Tesla Motors, calling it a 'loser'

http://www.torquenews.com/1075/romney-tries-solyndraize-tesla-motors-calling-it-loser

1 comments

Hacker News?

emehrkayvor 14 Jahren

Here is the hacker news opportunity: build a real-time fact checker for this type of claim. Remember Popup Video on VH1? Something like that.

stfuvor 14 Jahren

It has nothing to do with facts. It is which facts you are interested in.

If you talk about Tesla having created some jobs, fine, then it is a success. If you are talking about Tesla not even selling 10000 cars per year, and are used to "regular" car industry sales numbers, it is a joke.

The idea of absolute truth in politics is questionable. You will in almost all cases find a way to show that the guy you don't like is wrong and the guy you like is right.

emehrkayvor 14 Jahren

Fact, strangely, is loaded. Romney brought up Tesla as a negative investment in green energy. Obama holds them, or what they're doing, as an archetype of the new "American way" forward (even though they aren't breaking auto sales records). If that were explained, tweet sized, the viewer could have a better understanding of the rhetoric.

Real-time that and i believe you'd have something

Turing_Machinevor 14 Jahren

Romney's dad was chair of American Motors during what passed for its glory years (he took the stock from $7/share to $90), so this is a topic where he may have some familiarity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney#American_Motor...

salemvor 14 Jahren

You have to start somewhere. Disruptive technology often starts out as a niche product.