Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. X
By Steve Benen
Maddowblog
Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:02 PM EDT
On Tuesday, Mitt Romney decided to give Rick Santorum some curious advice. The former governor said that "misrepresenting the truth is not a good way" to boost one's campaign, and candidates looking to gain ground should "use truth as one of the pillars of your strategy."
After tackling the challenge of cataloguing Romney's audacious falsehoods, and watching this guy lie repeatedly (and at times even unnecessarily), hearing the candidate decry "misrepresenting the truth" was so jarring, I almost took it personally.
Perhaps the former governor has forgotten just how often he's failed to use the truth as one of the pillars of his strategy. To help remind him, here's the 10th installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt's mendacity.
1. Romney told voters in Mississippi this week, "Don't forget by the way that this President, how many months ago was it, 37 months ago, told us that if he could borrow $787 billion, almost $1 trillion, he would keep unemployment below 8 percent."
Putting aside the fact that $787 billion is not "almost $1 trillion," the "below 8 percent" canard just isn't true.
(More here.)
Maddowblog
Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:02 PM EDT
On Tuesday, Mitt Romney decided to give Rick Santorum some curious advice. The former governor said that "misrepresenting the truth is not a good way" to boost one's campaign, and candidates looking to gain ground should "use truth as one of the pillars of your strategy."
After tackling the challenge of cataloguing Romney's audacious falsehoods, and watching this guy lie repeatedly (and at times even unnecessarily), hearing the candidate decry "misrepresenting the truth" was so jarring, I almost took it personally.
Perhaps the former governor has forgotten just how often he's failed to use the truth as one of the pillars of his strategy. To help remind him, here's the 10th installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt's mendacity.
1. Romney told voters in Mississippi this week, "Don't forget by the way that this President, how many months ago was it, 37 months ago, told us that if he could borrow $787 billion, almost $1 trillion, he would keep unemployment below 8 percent."
Putting aside the fact that $787 billion is not "almost $1 trillion," the "below 8 percent" canard just isn't true.
(More here.)
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