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Jennifer Rubin has endured no shortage of criticism for using her Washington Post blog to blatantly and counterfactually shill for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. And in the aftermath of Romney’s electoral defeat, she’s tacitly acknowledging as much. Today Rubin offers her post-mortem of the Romney campaign, casting it as ineffectual and unequal to the task of removing an incumbent from the White House — an assessment that flatly contradicts her aggressively pro-Romney pre-election writing.

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A Wall Street Journal article pushed the myth that Mitt Romney’s tax plan adds up. Romney has proposed a 20 percent across-the-board income tax rate, a $5 trillion tax cut that largely benefits the wealthiest Americans .

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NBC’s David Gregory showed Mitt Romney claiming that President Obama said he would lower unemployment to 5.2 percent and presented this statement as representative of Obama’s economic record. But independent fact-checkers have rated the charge that Obama promised an unemployment rate of around 5 percent as false and misleading . While economists working with Obama projected in 2009 that one version of a stimulus bill would lower the unemployment to that level, the severity of the recession wasn’t fully understood at that time, and Obama never promised that level of unemployment would be achieved.

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Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin falsely claimed that Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s health care plan always included a provision insuring that those with pre-existing conditions are not denied insurance coverage. In fact, this is the exact opposite of what the Romney campaign has said. In a recent study, the Government Accountability Office found that “between 36 and 122 million adults reported medical conditions that could result in a health insurer restricting coverage.” This is why one of the major features of the Affordable Care Act is its requirement that insurance companies not deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

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The Wall Street Journal  published an article comparing Mitt Romney to his father George Romney, who ran for president in 1968, but ignored an important distinction between the two: George Romney released 12 years of tax returns, while Mitt Romney still refuses to release more than the most recent two years. In its article this morning, the Journal contrasted George Romney’s 1968 campaign with Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, calling George “a guiding force in Mitt Romney’s campaign” and “the ghost in Mitt Romney’s machine.” While the article laid out several areas in which Mitt Romney’s campaign differed from his father’s, it ignored one of the most glaring differences.

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Joe Scarborough and Fox & Friends lashed out at the Obama campaign and other media outlets this morning for accurately pointing out that Mitt Romney relied on falsehoods during the first presidential debate.

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Washington Post  political blogger Jennifer Rubin doesn’t think much of today’s jobs report, which showed 114,000 jobs added in September and the unemployment rate dropping to 7.8 percent. Under the headline “This is no jobs recovery,” Rubin  writes : Consider that if labor force participation had held even since January (when it was 8.3 percent), the jobless rate would be 8.4 percent.  If the job participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama took office, the rate would be 10.7 percent.  The broader U-6 rate (unemployed plus total employed part time for economic reasons) held steady at 14.7 percent. Obama can spin the numbers anyway he likes, but  this is not an economic “recovery” in a meaningful sense.  We are adding fewer jobs on average per month than we did last year (143,00 vs

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Fox & Friends pretended that Mitt Romney gave specific details of his tax plan in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes .

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Mitt Romney economic adviser Emil Henry tripled down on the GOP presidential candidate’s claim that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent upon government” and see themselves as “victims” because they don’t pay federal income taxes, during an appearance on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday. “You have a president who errs towards, in the very least, an entitlement society, a society of hand downs, a society of 46 million people on food stamps,” Henry said, adding that Romney opposes Obama’s efforts to “redistribute” wealth to those with lower incomes.

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Mitt Romney yesterday attempted to turn attention away from the fallout of his comments regarding the “ 47 percent ” by pointing to a video from 1998 in which President Obama, then a state senator, says, “ I actually believe in redistribution , at least at a certain level to make sure everybody’s got a shot.” The video was aggressively pushed by the Drudge Report and was detailed in a Romney campaign memo today. This video doesn’t show much of anything new: President Obama has consistently advocated for higher tax rates on the rich, a position most Americans support , and more support for low-income Americans. Romney’s response also ignores that his own economic plan would redistribute wealth too — Romney would just redistribute it to the already wealthy.

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