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From Barack Obama, in Mitt Romney’s latest ad:
If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.
What Obama actually said, campaigning against John McCain on October 16, 2008:
Senator McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”
Just out of curiosity: How flat-out, knowingly false does something have to be before the press is willing to just call it a lie? We’re about to find out!
