The New Republic blog, The Plank, is fact checking a recent Mitt Romney statement on Babies R Us, of all things. Here’s the statement of the Governor’s in question:

I was dismayed when my deputy chief of staff when I was governor said that he’d gone to the Babies R Us to register his wife for a baby shower, this was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the clerk behind the counter said, “Okay, I’m filling out the form here, what’s your name sir?” And he said, “My name’s Peter Flaherty.” And then she said, “And what’s your girlfriend’s name?” And he said, “I don’t have a girlfriend.” And she said, “Well, who’s having the baby then?” And he said, “My wife!” “Oh, your wife?!”

And here’s the Plank’s response:

But, while I don’t doubt Romney’s story is broadly true, there is one problem with it: according to the Babies R Us website, there is no Babies R Us in Cambridge. I guess setting the story in Braintree doesn’t pack the same culturally conservative punch.

If you click on the TNR provided link above and choose the Babies R Us in Everett, MA instead, you’ll find that Everett, MA is about 6 miles away from Cambridge. Not really a gotcha moment if you ask me.