“Being born rich is Mitt Romney’s greatest accomplishment.”

We can thank Stephen Colbert for that one. Colbert had a brilliant bit on Fox News’ Steve Doocy doing something inconceivable for a cable news host, particularly one on Fox News: Doocy made some shit up.

(As an aside to the people who seem to genuinely believe that Colbert is really a conservative punking the rest of us: the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently recalibrated the average American penis length to 2.5 inches. Congratulations on your newfound virility.)

Back to Doocy: yup, he asked Mitt Romney about a slur against Mittens’ wealth, uttered by Obama, that Obama never actually uttered.

I guess it’s okay to do that because the oppression of the obscenely wealthy is a national scourge that must be rooted out, right?

Sarcasm aside, the Dooce realized the error of his ways and issued a heartfelt, honest apology. Except for the fact that he did not do that. Here’s what he said:

Last week President Obama talked about not being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. That was interpreted as a big dig at Mitt Romney. When I was interviewing Governor Romney on this show I asked him about it. However, I did some paraphrasing that seemed to misquote the president. So to be clear, the president’s exact quote was, ‘I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.’ And I hope that clears up any confusion.

Here’s what The Raw Story had to say about the clarity of the confusion:

Actually, Dooce, that does not clear up all the confusion. You clearly reached for a piece of paper on-air in your interview with Romney in order to read this fabricated quote. Who wrote the material you were reading? What was the source for that version of the quote? Were you reading from internally produced material or from a third-party source? From how high up in the Fox News universe did this fabrication originate?

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