Romney lies about his lies

Rachel Maddow did a long piece on Mitt Romney's lies.  Beginning with a clip of him being questioned about the proven factual inaccuracies in his ads, Romney said:

"We've been absolutely spot-on, and anytime there's anything amiss we correct it or remove it."

But they don't.  They most definitely do not.  In fact, Romney's top campaign adviser said, "We're not going to let this campaign be run by the fact-checkers."

Rachel then gave three examples in which blatant lies were said in a Romney ad, which the press and fact-checkers proved to be false -- and all of those ads are still posted on the Romney campaign web site today.

The worst, in that it was not just "taken out of context" or distorted in meaning, but was in fact a deliberate editing to show Obama saying:  "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." 

Well, in fact Obama did say those words during the 2008 campaign.  That's what the video clip shows.   But here's what preceded those words that they edited out: "John McCain says that 'if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'"

Get it?   Obama is quoting McCain in order to disparage what McCain said.   But Romney actually ran an ad in which they edited out that it was McCain's words he was quoting.  That ad ran in November 2011;  the press went wild with denouncing it.   But it is still posted on the Romney campaigb web site in September 2012.

So -- when he says they correct their lies, he lies.

Ralph