Mitt's Pants on Fire

PolitiFact with its first fact-check of night and as I predicted it's on Mitt's "apology tour" crack and they find it not yet "false" but full-on "pants on fire."   Even more: "ridiculous." Not that the GOP will care.

A review of Obama’s foreign travels and remarks during his early presidency showed no evidence to support such a blunt and disparaging claim. (In later years, we found two formal apologies, but they were not at the start of his presidency and not part of a tour.)

While Obama's speeches contained some criticisms of past U.S. actions, he typically combined those passages with praise for the United States and its ideals, and he frequently mentioned how other countries had erred as well. We found not a single, full-throated apology in the bunch.

Calling those remarks "an apology tour" is a ridiculous charge. So we rate his statement Pants on Fire.