During the president’s speech today someone somewhere decided he’d said the average income of people in the 1% was $27 million, wildly higher than it actually is, which is a bit over $1.2 million a year. Only he didn’t say that. He said that was the income of the top 100th of the 1%.

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Rove gets to work trying to avert the Newt nomination catastrophe.

Late Tuesday evening, a press release went out to numerous political journalists with stunning news. Mega-union SEIU had voted to withdraw its recently bestowed endorsement of Barack Obama. That’s certainly not unimaginable — SEIU often takes its own path and has a conflicted relationship with the Democratic party establishment.

Only it wasn’t true.

It was a pretty real looking hoax press release that managed to snare a number of reporters who posted the news on twitter.

Mark McCullough, the real one not faux “Mark McCullough”, the guy who sent out the fake press release, confirmed to TPM that the announcement was a hoax. We’re told SEIU (no bizarro endorsement-retracting “SEIU”) will be issuing a statement shortly.

Newt Gingrich isn’t the only guy drawing political blood from Mitt Romney. Democratic attacks are playing an important role dragging Romney down.

The day that will live in infamy — seventy years on.

Newt’s latest: Mitt should thank me for creating the capitalism that made him rich. Watch.

One of the recurrent discussions in this, as in other primary cycles, is that this or that candidate may be doing great nationally but they have barely shown their face in Iowa or New Hampshire. Or they’re doing great but they don’t even have an office open in this or that early state. If Mitt Romney wraps this up quickly we’ll probably reason that in-state organization and time on the ground played a key role in his victory, not withstanding inconstant polls.

But as I’ve watched this cycle unfold, I’ve wondered whether changes in the media landscape have finally changed the equation between individual states and the national campaign.

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Images of Pearl Harbor — 70 years ago today.

Newt’s speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition went down a storm. His biggest applause line? When he promised to appoint John Bolton as Secretary of State. Yes, really.

UPDATE: Looks like this comes as a bit of a shock to Bolton himself.

Romney’s contortions over his health care problem have been numerous. But today was particularly unkind to him. Benjy Sarlin details why here and here.