“Needless to say, the political press and blogosphere have jumped on the story:”
“Clearly, a disaster for the Romney campaign, right? No, it was apparently a clumsy attempt at satire gone horribly awry.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/politico-s-paul-ryan-satire-the-joke-s-on-them.html
I see none of the FReepers believed this story (excepting #22).
Article title... “Sorry, But Mitt Romney’s Nickname Is Not “The Stench”
“Not everyone grasped that Paul Ryan isn’t really going around referring to Mitt Romney as “Stench,” as a Politico satire suggested.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/some-people-didnt-really-understand-that-romney