Rick Perry claims Obama called the American people lazy:
Michael Scherer looks at the full Obama quote and determines that Perry is lying:
Did President Obama argue that “Americans are lazy,” as Perry alleges? No. He argued that American policy makers have been lazy in not doing more to attract businesses. (Obama’s standard line about the American people, by contrast, is that they are the “best workers in the world.”)
Dan Amira pays close attention to Perry's grammar:
[T]aking things out of context is hardly new ground for a political campaign. What is new ground is a candidate mangling the English language in a TV ad, which he presumably had the opportunity to tape as many times as necessary. "Can you believe that?" Perry asks in the opening moments of the ad. "That's what our president thinks wrong with America?" We imagine the ad team doing 97 different takes of this line, then finally saying, "Eh, screw it," and giving up.
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