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Another day, another set of opinions that differ.

Mitt Romney, hoping to draw a sharp contrast on welfare, is citing a disputed charge that President Barack Obama is giving recipients a free ride, and he can point to his own record of pushing for tighter rules.

"Disputed"?

Romney's campaign alleges in remarks and TV ads that Obama is loosening welfare restrictions by ending a provision that requires welfare recipients to work. Romney has told voters again and again he'd restore the work requirement to the federal program.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum made the attack line a big part of his speech to the GOP convention, saying that Obama "showed us once again he believes in government handouts and dependency by waiving the work requirement for welfare."

Yet numerous independent fact-checkers, including The Associated Press, have determined that Romney and his surrogates are distorting the facts.

No. They are not "distorting" anything. They are simply Making. Shit. Up. And the reason why they do this is because they know that news organizations like the Associated Press won't have the stones, or even the common sense, to call them out for it. And people wonder why a media-saturated culture such as ours has so many low-information voters.

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