“You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was
inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad. They were embarrassed. Today, they just blast ahead.”
— Mitt Romney, quoted by Greg Sargent earlier this month.
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.”
— Romney pollster Neil Newhouse, quoted by BuzzFeed this morning, after it was pointed out that fact checkers say the Romney campaign’s welfare attacks on President Obama are not true.
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