Monday, December 31, 2007

Romney Wins WaPo Pinocchio Award

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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Monday, December 31, 2007 2:25:18 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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...

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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)

Chop Chop

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