Mitt Romney may be a flip-flopper, but his campaign staffers are flip-the-birders. At leaast when it comes to the news media.

Exhibit Umpteen appears in ABC’s The Note, which today posted this set of DUELING MEMOS:

FROM TEAM OBAMA: . . . “Team Romney wants voters and the national media to believe its victory reflects its candidate’s positions,” deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter wrote in a memo to reporters Wednesday. “In reality, it is a product of the fact that Romney and his SuperPAC allies carpet-bombed Gingrich by spending five times as much money on Florida’s airwaves, and running more than 60 television ads for every one Gingrich and his allies aired,” she said.

FROM TEAM ROMNEY: “It’s no wonder that with Gov. Romney coming off a big victory in a must-win general election state that the White House would be worried about having to face Gov. Romney and be held accountable for President Obama’s failures,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement this morning. “Our opponents would love for you to believe that we have out-spent our rivals 5 to 1, but, per usual, the facts are not on their side. In SC, those gunning for us spent over $7 million while we and allies of Gov. Romney spent a combined $4 million.”

So, the Romneynauts didn’t outspend the Gingrichites 5 to 1 in Florida because the Ginrichites outspent the Romneynauts in South Carolina? Is that what they’re saying here? Because if so, 1) it’s more nonsensical that Edward Lear, and 2) it’s not even true.

From MSNBC’s First Read:

In South Carolina, Romney and the top pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future outspent Gingrich and his allies by a nearly 2-to-1 margin ($4.4 million vs. $2.4 million).

It’s hard to know which is more insulting – the lie, or the expectation we’d fall for the slipshod dodge.

Regardless, it’s clear: About the only time Romney’s mouthpieces tell the truth is when they’re lying.