Greg Sargent, WaPo Op/Ed: How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Posted at 12:59 PM ET, 05/16/2012
How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying
By Greg Sargent

Romney’s speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen. They note that it’s entirely at odds with conventional understanding of how deficits work, and utterly disconnected from context, rendering it almost unquantifiably misleading.

But I wanted to make another point. If you scan through all the media attention Romney’s speech received, you are hard-pressed to find any news accounts that tell readers the following rather relevant points:

1) Nonpartisan experts believe Romney’s plans would increase the deficit far more than Obama’s would.

2) George W. Bush’s policies arguably are more responsible for increasing the deficit than Obama's are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/why-mitt-romney-gets-away-with-his-lying/2012/05/16/gIQADLzyTU_blog.html

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1. k&r (nt)

[emulatorloo]

2. News media refuses to fact check Romney

Or any Republican unless they are forced to.

Case in point: no fact checking of McCain until he said "The fundamentals of the economy are strong."

There was no way media could cover that statement up.