The simple fact is that Mitt Romney and his campaign were lazy on this one. They read the pre-speech text of the Rose Garden speech. They missed the video and the White House transcript.
Alex Wong runs that team. So Romney blundered, despite that President Obama more than doubles the length of the prepared text speaking extemporaneously.
During the debate last night Mitt shot without aiming. He went off with a bogus claim that ""it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror."
Do not hand this man Romney a shotgun!
Here's the video the Rmoneys missed. President Obama in the Rose Garden with Hillary Clinton standing beside him, on September 12th, 2012, the first day after the fatal attack at Benghazi:
He recounts the sacrifices at Benghazi and 9/11 and what these lives mean to the nation, then:
"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."
The President addresses explicitly the four deaths at Benghazi.
D'oh !! Here you have Romney emulating Cheney with the bird gun:
And the original model from 1976:
Automated google-spoofing is under way, pumping up right wing flack pieces to protect Romney. The clowns also tell us that Ford was a genius and Dick Cheney wasn't at fault shooting Harry Whittington.
There's more: WaPo fact checking and Mother Jones, plus a full and accurate transcript past le chignon d'orange....