Even Letterman is CONCERNED ABOUT OBAMA

DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: Here's what upset me last night, this playing fast and loose with facts. And the President Obama cites the op-ed piece that Romney wrote about Detroit, “Let them go bankrupt, let them go bankrupt,” and last night he brings it up again. “Oh, no, Governor, you said let them go bankrupt, blah blah blah, let them go bankrupt.” And Mitt said, “No, no, check the thing, check the thing, check the thing.” Now, I don't care whether you're Republican or Democrat, you want your president to be telling the truth; you want the contender to be lying. And so what we found out today or soon thereafter that, in fact, the President Obama was not telling the truth about what was excerpted from that op-ed piece. I felt discouraged.

RACHEL MADDOW: Because the "Let Detroit go bankrupt" headline you feel like was inappropriate?

LETTERMAN: Well, the fact the President is invoking it and swearing that he was right and that Romney was wrong and I thought, well, he's the president of course he's right. Well, it turned out no, he was taking liberties with that.

The untruth that attracted Letterman's attention was just one of a litany of false statements from the president in the third presidential debate:  He was wrong about keeping troops in Iraq, wrong on his role in slapping Iran with tough sanctions, and, of course wrong on the auto bailout dispute.  One other significant statement was the president's assertion that the defense sequestration cuts "will not happen."  In an attempt to contextualize and deflect Romney's criticism about deep defense cuts, Obama claimed that the sequestration concept was Congress' idea.  Even left-leaning Politifact couldn't abide that blame-shift, rating the claim "mostly false:"