Romney Trying To Alter The Record

I'm a little late coming up to speed on the Benghazi attack, and all that, but this doesn't surprise me at all:

Mitt Romney stepped in it Wednesday and sank right up to the upturned edges of his pathetic smirk with his remarks about the Obama administration's response to the slaying of Americans in Benghazi. As Jed Lewison and Hunter have pointed out, he proved conclusively, in a manner clear to everyone from here to Timbuktu, that he is unfit morally and intellectually to be president.

Or the complete news rewrite regarding Romney's decision-making. Romney's allies at the New York Times are trying right this instant to wipe from history how Romney (and not just the terrorists) set up a carefully-planned ambush, and made no hasty decisions:

[E]arlier this evening the Times ran a story entitled “Behind Romney’s Decision to Attack Obama on Libya.” The byline was David Sanger and Ashley Parker. The big news out of the story was that Romney himself had been the driver of last night’s decision making. That and a lot of other color and interesting news. As I write, it’s still that piece and lede that’s on the front page. But now it’s been replaced (same url) by an almost unrecognizable piece entitled “A Challenger’s Criticism Is Furiously Returned”, bylined by Peter Baker and Ashley Parker.

I first saw the story through a blast email. Then I saw it on the Times website. Then it was gone.

The thrust of the piece is dramatically different and, unless I’m missing something, leaves out this critical quote from a Romney senior advisor explaining their rationale. “We’ve had this consistent critique and narrative on Obama’s foreign policy, and we felt this was a situation that met our critique, that Obama really has been pretty weak in a number of ways on foreign policy, especially if you look at his dealings with the Arab Spring and its aftermath.”

So basically, we saw this thing happen. It fit with our campaign narrative. So we pounced.

Money talks! You will NOT get the full story for awhile either. So tighten your seat belts and watch Romney prove what a pathetic leader he really is.