The Mitt Romney campaign is left to defend its controversial ad that manipulates viewers into thinking that President Obama is going to move the production of Jeeps to china under his administration.

"Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job," the ad says.

The ad, which was not announced publicly, has received a torrent of complaints and fact checking after it was aired in the Toledo, Ohio, television market.

According to the Huffington Post, television tracking service TVEyes showed that it is not airing in Youngstown, Ohio, as well.

The Post also reported that the Romney campaign is spending $360,000 on television ads in Toledo between Oct. 27 and Nov. 1.

Thirty-five percent of the ads is being used to air the Jeep ad. The campaign is spending $138,000 in Youngstown over the same time period, 50 percent of which is for the Jeep ad.

The ad shows that Obama took the auto companies through bankruptcy, without acknowledging that Romney's plan was identical to that of the president's.

The Post confirmed that Detroit News endorsed Romney, without noting that the endorsement included a criticism of Romney's position on the auto bailout.

It claimed that Romney has a "plan to help the auto industry," although the campaign hasn't offered such a plan to reporters.

A report from Bloomberg shows that Chrysler will be returning Jeep production to China, without explaining that the company is doing so to support the growing Chinese market and isn't moving any U.S. jobs there.

Romney's camapaign has declined any comments on the ad and refuse to back off.

One of the campaign's aide asked, "What is in there that's false? Are they building in china or not?"

"I think a lot of Ohioans are wondering why we can't make Jeeps here - in this country and export them to China."

According to the Post, this is a defense by technicality. The claims by the ad and its message are fanciful and misleading.

The Obama campaign is calling the ad an illustration of weakness to gain traction in Ohio.

"Romney, of course, is getting desperate," Jim Messina, campaign manager told reporters.

"So what did he do? He released an ad in Toledo that everyone in America knows is flat-out-false. It reeks of desperation because that's what it is."