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Meet Jay Carson. Jay Carson is Hillary Clinton’s press secretary. Jay Carson is also a bold faced liar. Watch Jay Carson react to Hillary’s less than stellar night on Super Tuesday:

Here’s a transcript:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Jay Carson, is it true that your campaign thought you could wrap it up tonight?

JAY CARSON: No, I think no one thought we would wrap it up tonight, as of six weeks ago. Everyone knew this race was going to be tight, and I seem to remember reading a lot of clips yesterday, and even this morning about an unstoppable surge in momentum that we would just not be able to overcome. We won a lot of the states that we were supposed to lose today, and I think that Hillary Clinton is a lot closer to winning the nomination tonight than she was this morning when we woke up. A broad coalition of voters across the country– we’ve won a lot off places, we’ve had a great night, we feel great about it.

Carson’s spin and retroactive downplaying of expectations aside (did he really just suggest that Clinton was the underdog?!), listen to the first thing Jay says, actually answering Chris’ question. “I think no one thought we would wrap it up tonight, as of six weeks ago. Everyone knew this race was going to be tight…”

Six weeks ago? Everyone knew this race was going to be close? What Carson is saying is just patently false and he knows it.

Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe started a February 4th memo thusly:

Two weeks ago, a Clinton campaign adviser told CBS News that they believed they could “wrap up” the nomination on February 5th. As the “inevitable” national frontrunner, tomorrow should be the day when she sews up the nomination or builds a formidable delegate lead. But because of Obama’s growing momentum across the country, the Clinton campaign is now unlikely to reach their stated goals of wrapping up the nomination tomorrow.

Senator Clinton is certainly the favorite on February 5, given the huge leads she has held in many of these contests throughout the course of the campaign and the political, historical and geographic advantages she enjoys in many of these states.

So, you have Carson on the one hand claiming that Hillary’s camp knew a month and a half ago that this race was going to be close, and yet her advisers were still spouting spin just weeks ago that she planned to “wrap up” the nomination on Super Tuesday.

So, was Carson not privy to those Clinton talking points of a few weeks ago? No, he’s just revising history. Plain and simple.

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