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When Campaign Spin Becomes Fact

Distortion

Mitt Romney never said all Jeep production would move to China, yet Democrats and the media exaggerated his claim until it became something they knocked down as untrue.

Stuart Stevens

Published Mar. 21 2014 5:45AM EDT

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Let’s be honest: Al Gore didn’t really invent the Internet.

And John Kerry isn’t really French.

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But both were asserted in various forms by Republicans in 2000 and 2004.

Stuart Stevens

Stuart Stevens

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