CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, in accusing Mitt Romney of stretching the truth, appeared to stretch the definition of lying -- suggesting the Republican presidential nominee was dishonest because he walked back a controversial remark.
On Friday’s edition of “Starting Point,” O’Brien grilled Romney surrogate Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. She was talking about Romney’s subsequent disavowing of a secretly recorded tape made in May in which he said 47 percent of the country is dependent on the government safety net and thus unlikely to vote for him.
"[When you] say one thing for a certain audience to get them to support you and then you say something different, maybe completely contradictory, to another audience which some could define as lying."
- CNN's Soledad O'Brien
The interview came two days after a debate in which the general consensus was that Romney did well and President Obama turned in a lackluster performance. The day after the mano a mano, Obama took to the stump to suggest the real Romney was the one caught on the tape, not the one who turned in a strong debate performance.
O'Brien used a clip of post-debate Obama blasting Romney for claiming to be a champion of the middle class, saying "doesn't (Obama) have a point there as he was on the campaign trail, that he (Romney) was dancing around and this is now a flip from what he said very -- you know -- specifically and concretely before?"
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