TPMtv: Is That Your Final Answer?

From Josh Marshall:

Having trouble keeping up with Romney's latest story on whether he'd appoint a Muslim to serve in his administration? We try to unravel the fast-breaking bamboozlement in today's episode of TPMtv ...




On a side note from TPM:

I just got off the phone with another Nevada Republican who confirmed that Mansoor Ijaz's account of Mitt Romney saying he'd nix Muslims in his cabinet is accurate.

This is the first person I've spoken to who directly confirmed Ijaz's account of that particular event. The other two Nevada Republicans I spoke with yesterday confirmed that Romney had made very similar remarks at a different, earlier event.

"I can tell you that what was reported by Mansoor is accurate," this person said to me. The man, a real estate broker and volunteer in local Republican politics, declined to allow his name to be used.
Romney disputed the account in remarks to reporters yesterday, saying that he had said that he didn't need a Muslim in his cabinet to effectively fight Jihad, not that he'd said he was opposed to the idea of having one in his cabinet.

When I read Romney's remarks to this Republican, however, he said: "I don't recall Romney saying what you read to me," adding that "what Monsoor stated was an accurate representation."

At any rate, Romney's representation of what happened is at odds with mounting evidence that Ijaz's account is the accurate one.