Romney Wins WaPo Pinocchio Award

Published Dec 31 2007, 02:28 PM by David S. Bernstein

Against stiff competition -- personally, I think I would have gone with Giuliani's prostate-cancer data -- our own former governor Mitt Romney has been named the winner of the Washington Post Fact Checker blog's 2007 Pinocchio Award. His winning falsehood was the one exposed right here by yours truly: "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."

The Nashua Telegraph has endorsed John McCain, making it a clean sweep for McCain of every major newspaper within hurling distance of New Hampshire. Question: What is the closest newspaper to Romney's home in Belmont to endorse him?

Mad Man Mitt also got a remarkable smackdown the other day from Time Magazine's Joe Klein:

I've never seen a candidate who showed such arrant disrespect for the public--and for himself. Indeed, Romney has performed a political self-lobotomy. Not just on his brain, which seemed an impressive instrument a year ago, but also on whatever nagging moral sense he might have had. He did this in order to conform--in the primaries, at least--to every last polling preference, no matter how skeevy, of his party's base. ... I've also never seen a candidate so loathed, privately, by his competitors.

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Chop Chop said:

Question: What is the closest newspaper to Romney's home in Belmont to endorse him? << The Sioux City Journal of Iowa is the only endorsement so far that I can think of. I'm guessing the Mittster can count on The Phoenix NOT endorsing him; what with the whopping 14 negative article entries (just since December 14, 2007) here in the "Talking Politics" blog section... Crowdsource Research Challenge? Monday, December 31, 2007 Romney Wins WaPo Pinocchio Award Monday, December 31, 2007 Romney's Upbeat Close Thursday, December 27, 2007 Grosse Pointe News, 1963 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 When A Claim Becomes Offensive Saturday, December 22, 2007 Politico: Two Witnesses Saw Romney-King March Friday, December 21, 2007 Globe: "George Romney Never Marched With King" Friday, December 21, 2007 Romney: "I Saw Him In The Figurative Sense" Thursday, December 20, 2007 ARG: Romney Third In Iowa Thursday, December 20, 2007 Romney to Freep on MLK March: "Figuratively, Not Literally" Thursday, December 20, 2007 More on My Romney Story Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Romney Meets Russert Sunday, December 16, 2007 Bork Backs Mitt Saturday, December 15, 2007 Today's Best of Mitt -- Creepiest Image EVER? Friday, December 14, 2007 Question: Has ThePhoenix.com ever endorsed any major republican candidate? The reason I ask is because the Google results for both of the following search entries turned up zilch: "The Boston Phoenix" "endorses republican candidate" (with quotes) "The Phoenix" "endorses republican candidate" (with quotes) "The Phoenix" "endorsed republican candidate" (with quotes)

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