"No American jobs were shipped overseas in any of the Washington Post examples that were cited by the Obama campaign," Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.
Here's what the Post said:
Under a headline that declared, "Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas," the Post detailed how Bain had invested in certain companies that provided outsourcing services like call centers. It also detailed how Bain went into business with companies that produced products overseas.
But the Romney campaign has pointed out two problems.
Outsourcing, in which services like customer service are taken out-of-house, and off-shoring, in which jobs are sent overseas, are two different things. The Post story, the Romney camp suggests, conflated the two.
"There were companies that Bain invested in that did engage in outsourcing, a lot of companies do, obviously. That's an economic model that makes sense," Romney adviser Ed Gillespie said on CNN's "State of the Union," decrying the story as "baseless."