The stubborn media fact check double standard

NY Times:

There was the period last spring when Mitt Romney claimed while campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire that he had been a hunter “pretty much all my life,” only to have to admit later he had seriously hunted on only two occasions.

Then there was the endorsement Mr. Romney claimed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday that he received from the National Rifle Association while running for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, when it turned out the group had never endorsed him.

Mr. Romney’s latest concession is that he only “figuratively” saw his late father, George, march with Martin Luther King Jr., something he claimed in his highly publicized speech about his Mormon faith earlier this month. Some publications have raised doubts that the event ever happened at all.

Mr. Romney once said about misstatements by his Republican rival, Rudolph W. Giuliani, “facts are stubborn things.” But does he have his own problem with blurring the truth?

Some of the instances when Mr. Romney has tripped up on his facts show that he is prone to exaggeration, taking what is essentially a kernel of truth and stretching it to bolster his case.

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This is a pretty cheap hit piece on Romney whose misdemeanor exaggerations look pretty small compared to Bill Clinton who is running for his third term using his wife as a surrogate candidate. When Bill Clinton said he always opposed the Iraq war, most of the media just kind of shrugged their shoulders and said that just Bill Clinton. "Isn't he clever the way he can get away with saying things that are not so." Facts are not stubborn things for the Clintons. They are things to be bent and shaped to meet their purpose.