I try to catch the most egregious of these, but Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog has been compiling lists. Called Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, he’s up to Volume XXI.

A sample from today’s collection:

3. Romney added that he’s concerned about the millions of Americans “on food stamps, most of whom never expected that would be their course.”

This, at a minimum, is misleading, given that Romney enthusiastically endorsed a budget plan that slashes food stamps.

6. Romney also argued that Obama isn’t really for an “all the above” energy policy: “All of the above means that you like oil and gas and coal and nuclear and renewables. And yet he has made it harder and harder to take advantage of some of those.”

Actually, that’s the opposite of the truth. Obama has expanded renewables and expanded nuclear plants. Also, coal production is up; we have more natural gas than we know what to do with; and oil production is up. Obama’s support for “all of the above” continues.

8. Romney also said of the president, “His idea is to make America more like Europe.”

As it turns out, that’s backwards. Europe is trying (and failing) to grow through austerity measures, which is what Romney, not Obama, intends to do here.

Benen quotes Rachel Maddow from her June 7 show: “Mr. Romney gets caught saying things that are factually wrong, and the thing that is different about him is that he does not mind; he doesn’t fix it; he doesn’t even try to worm out of it. He doesn’t appear to feel any shame about it at all — and he’s happy to keep telling the lie once he knows it is a lie.”

And the press is pretty much giving him a pass.