Rachel Maddow: Mitt's Mendacity - Final Count is 917 Untruths

[Hissyspit]

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/02/14884755-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xli?lite

Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XLI

In a way, I blame my friend Greg Sargent. In the first week in January, he noted, almost in passing, that Mitt Romney seemed to be making a lot of false claims, and someone "really should document them all." That struck me as a good idea, so I decided to tackle this on my own.

After all, I thought at the time, how hard could this be? Once a week, I'd let readers know about Romney's whoppers, which I assumed would total about a half-dozen a week, and maybe after the election, I'd do a top 20 list of my favorites. The little project would be a nice little Friday-afternoon feature.

Little did I know at the time that Romney would become an ambitious prevaricator, whose rhetoric would come to define post-truth politics. Nearly 11 months after Greg Sargent's harmless suggestion, I've published 40 installments of in this series, which, before today, featured 884 falsehoods. (If you include today's edition, the new total is 917 falsehoods for the year.)

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[PatSeg]

1. What a huge undertaking!

[Angry Dragon]

2. I wonder how many truths Willard uttered

[bullwinkle428]

3. K&R.

But Rachel's not a REAL liberal according to some people.

[tanyev]

4. Final count? The election is four days away!

Plenty of time for Mittens to hit four digits.