The Romney 'Fact-Checking' Scandal

readersupportednews.org, Consortium News by Robert Parry | Jul. 16, 2012 (News Report)
Mitt Romney's 'independent fact-checkers' are covering his political flanks.

Self-styled "independent fact-checkers" at the Annenberg Center and the neoconservative-dominated Washington Post have positioned themselves as ardent defenders of Mitt Romney's claims that his Bain Capital tenure ended in 1999 despite questions raised by contradictory information submitted by Romney himself.

Indeed, the behavior of these "fact-checkers" is rapidly becoming the journalism scandal of Campaign 2012 as the likes of Brooks Jackson at ... Full Story »

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