Truthiness becomes truth when enough people hear and believe it.
The New York Times has an "investigative" piece on the facts behind some of the rhetoric of the campaign:
It's so easy to say whatever you want or whatever you can in a debate and not have to back it up until the next day. By then the majority of the audience that heard the initial statement isn't listening anymore, and it's just the pundits and journalists left to make it a big deal. However, the Saturday debate format, with more of a conversational style, allowed for at least some rebuttal instead of one turn - final answer in a traditional debate format.
The New York Times has an "investigative" piece on the facts behind some of the rhetoric of the campaign:
Mike Huckabee, thee Republican former governor of Arkansas, said he had “lowered taxes.” While he did lower some taxes as governor, he raised others — with the net effect that tax increases outweighed tax cuts by some $500 million, as he seemed to acknowledge when pressed by Mr. Romney.It reminds me of the 04 debates when Dick Cheney said he had never met Edwards until they met that day on the debate stage, though they had sat next to each other at some breakfast and other times before that.
...In the Republican debate on Saturday, Mr. Romney made a claim against Mr. McCain during a heated back-and-forth on immigration, saying: “I don’t describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don’t call it amnesty.” But Mr. Romney has run television and Internet commercials and has sent mailings describing Mr. McCain’s immigration proposal as just that: amnesty.
He said in a television interview Sunday morning that he had not seen the advertisements. “I was simply incorrect,” Mr. Romney said on “This Week with George Stephanopolous on ABC.
It's so easy to say whatever you want or whatever you can in a debate and not have to back it up until the next day. By then the majority of the audience that heard the initial statement isn't listening anymore, and it's just the pundits and journalists left to make it a big deal. However, the Saturday debate format, with more of a conversational style, allowed for at least some rebuttal instead of one turn - final answer in a traditional debate format.
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