Election 2012

The Most Hilarious Headline of the Week

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Mitt Romney to 'fact check' Obama in debate

Mitt Romney plans to turn himself into a one-man truth squad during the first presidential debate next week, casting President Barack Obama as someone who can’t be trusted to stick to the facts or keep his promises.

Top Republicans are telegraphing Romney’s hard-line strategy for his faceoff with Obama, according to Mike Allen’s Playbook in POLITICO on Thursday. The debate plan comes during a presidential cycle where media fact-checkers have held a high profile and where an earlier effort by Democrats to cast GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan as untrustworthy got results.

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Mitt Romney: Fact-checker.

That's about as realistic as Richard Nixon: Truth Teller. Or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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