Romneybot the lying regulator
by digby
Chris Hayes featured a lively discussion this morning about Mitt Romney the born again regulator and scourge of Wall Street:
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I’ll just repeat this from from Michael Moore a couple of days ago:
“‘You can say anything you want during a debate and 80 million people hear it,’observed Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President Bush. If reporters then document that a candidate spoke untruthfully, ‘so what? Maybe 200 people read it or 2,000 or 20,000.'”
– New York Times, November 1, 1984
It would likely be many more these days. But unless it can break through the din of a thousand other stories I think the rule still applies.
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