Remember Mitt Romney's righteous indignation last week after President Obama said he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth? It was bizarre because Romney seemed to think President Obama was talking about him, even though he wasn't. It's a line Obama has used repeatedly over the years to talk about the importance of giving everybody the opportunity to get a good education. Well, it turns out that Romney may have been misled about what Obama actually said. The question he was answering'from Fox News host Steve Doocy'included a key fabrication. Obama, Doocy claimed, had said "unlike some people" before saying he wasn't born with a spoon in his mouth. But those words were never spoken by President Obama, nor were they in his prepared remarks.
If Romney was unaware of what President Obama actually said, his answer makes a little bit more sense given Doocy's false characterization of Obama's remarks. Given Romney's pattern of deception throughout the campaign, however, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was simply taking Doocy's false quote and running with it, knowing full well what Obama had actually said. But even if he was unaware, he shouldn't have simply taken Doocy's word for it, because when you hear something on Fox that's too perfect to be true ... it almost always is.
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