Obama mimics Crowley walk back

We previously mentioned Crowley's walk back after the debate, correcting the earlier claim that Mitt Romney was wrong in his accusation that Obama had delayed in calling Benghazi a terrorist attack. The optics were all set by Obama, the moderator and the offset applause to make Romney catching Obama in a lie seem like a mistake on the Governor's part. But as SooperMexican finds in a WashingtonPost op-ed, 'that's not the whole story.'

theRightScoop: It turns out after the debate was over, Obama waltzed over to the Kerry Ladka, the man who asked about Benghazi, and told him that he did delay calling the attacks on Benghazi a terrorist attack:

“After the debate, the president came over to me and spent about two minutes with me privately,” says the 61-year-old Ladka, who works at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola, N.Y. According to Ladka, Obama gave him “more information about why he delayed calling the attack a terrorist attack.” For background, Obama did apparently lump Benghazi into a reference to “acts of terror” in a Sept. 12 Rose Garden address. However, he spent about two weeks holding off on using the full “terrorist” designation. The rationale for the delay, Obama explained to Ladka, was to make sure that the “intelligence he was acting on was real intelligence and not disinformation,” recalls Ladka.

So essentially, Obama does the same thing as Crowley: knows that the initial mention was broad & not specific to Benghazi, scores some political points for team Obama during the debate, but then recants the deception after the debate's over and confirms that Romney was actually right. Got that about right? Yep...

Obama completely contradicted himself just a few minutes after denouncing Romney...and I'm supposed to believe that Obama made some kind of miraculous comeback last night? Not happening...

ADDENDUM: Rush agrees with a caller that Obama's Benghazi lie was 'a gift on a silver platter'...a lawyer trapping a witness...