At a campaign fundraiser last night at the Connecticut home of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Barack Obama continued his ongoing economically-ignorant rant that his opponent Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital financial deals led to the outsourcing of American jobs. What Obama and his Hollywood pals conveniently ignore is that outsourcing jobs to lower-cost countries is Standard Operating Procedure in Hollywood. (A friend of mine who is in the business told me that it is common practice for film producers to record the score to their movies in other countries that have no musicians’ union.)

“Here’s a fresh example: “The Dark Knight Rises,” starring Morgan Freeman (who recently gave Priorities USA, the Obama SuperPAC, $1 million). There is no more quintessentially American city than Gotham. But where were half the Gotham scenes shot? In the United Kingdom and China. Going overseas may have meant fewer jobs for American workers, but, presumably some tax breaks and fewer union rules.”