Yet, when Republicans and then Romney began ripping Obama's roads-and-bridges quote out of context, all you could hear around the vaunted "fact-checkers" were the proverbial crickets chirping. Or to use a different metaphor, the lie had time to saunter around the world before the "fact-checkers" finally put their boots on.
So, in that context, perhaps we should be grateful that Kessler finally addressed this Romney distortion and gave the Republican presidential candidate "three Pinocchios" -- although one might have thought such a willful lie should deserve the full four.
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