A reader writes:
Following the GOP debates, one salient fact jumps out at me: Mitt Romney lies frequently, easily, and shamelessly. This isn’t Reagan’s evasions or Clinton’s careful parsing or Bush’s leaving the lies to his underlings; this is bold-faced making up outrageous crap about his opponents and saying it loudly and directly and repeatedly. Why the hell isn’t this the big story the media talks about? Surely the fact that Mitt Romney is a lying sack of shit is more important than Newt’s affairs or Ron Paul’s old pamphlets.
Money quote from the September 2011 Boston Globe article cited in the above video:
On his financial disclosure statement filed last month, Romney reported owning between $250,001 and $500,000 in a mutual fund that invests in debt notes of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, among other government entities. Over the previous year, he had reported earning between $15,001 and $50,000 in interest from those investments.
And unlike most of Romney’s financial holdings, which are held in a blind trust that is overseen by a trustee and not known to Romney, this particular investment was among those that would have been known to Romney.
The Dish 