This is not the first lie the Obama presidency and campaign have propagated

Election '12: The Obama campaign has reached new depths of
hypocrisy and mendacity in accusing its GOP opponent of a felony. Mr.
President, let he who is without secrets guarded like Fort Knox cast the
first stone.

For a Barack Obama operative to accuse Mitt Romney of misrepresenting
his chairmanship at Bain Capital to the Securities and Exchange
Commission over a decade ago, "which is a felony," as Stephanie Cutter
said, reveals the desperation of a presidential re-election campaign
that must distract Americans from its dismal economic record.

But it also raises other issues, including: this president's
willingness to run on lies, his refusal to practice what he preaches,
and the outrageous negligence of the Democrats' powerful lapdogs in the
media.

First, the Boston Globe, whose July 12 story Cutter parroted, seemed
to be intentionally misleading by saying that, "Government documents
filed by Mitt Romney and Bain Capital say Romney remained chief
executive and chairman of the firm three years beyond the date he said
he ceded control."

Because of the suddenness with which Romney left Bain to save the
Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games in 1999, during which ownership was
being legally transferred to a group of partners, it would have been out
of order — possibly unlawful — for Romney's name not to be on the
documents Bain filed with the SEC.

The Washington Post's Fact Checker even slapped the Globe with "Three
Pinocchios" and "were tempted to award this claim Four Pinocchios ...
."

This is not the first lie the Obama presidency and campaign have
propagated. From claiming that U.S. oil output "is the highest that it's
been in eight years" (while oil output on federal lands was falling
275,000 barrels a day), to portraying a company fixer and job creator
like Romney as an outsourcer, Obama's untruths are legion.

Why should we nose back into Romney's past when Obama won't release
his academic records? University of Chicago law professor Richard
Epstein, in "The Amateur," says Obama avoided fellow academics at
lunches and workshops while at the law school, because lacking "any
signs of intellectual curiosity or power" he made sure not "to put
himself at intellectual risk."

Only
Obama's full academic transcripts will tell whether he got into
Columbia and Harvard due to special treatment. The voters have a right
to know.

If the media did their job, Cutter's remark would have made this a
story about the Obama campaign smearing Romney by spreading a bogus
story, then aggressively making false allegations of criminal behavior.

As Politico commented after Cutter's slanderous charge, when it comes
to Romney and Bain, "things are reaching the point where the facts
don't really matter."

Indeed, that could be a blanket statement about the entire Obama campaign.