Just For The Record

...Wingnuts don't check facts, you know. That would require honesty and integrity, and all that other inconvenient crapola. Case in point, all the knuckleheads who screamed that Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers visited the White House...

But as the original post by White House ethics counselor Norm Eisen makes clear, the “William Ayers” and “Jeremiah Wright” on the list are actually different individuals who merely share the same name:

Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few “false positives” – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else. In September, requests were submitted for the names of some famous or controversial figures (for example Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Kelly (”R. Kelly”), and Malik Shabazz). The well-known individuals with those names never actually came to the White House. Nevertheless, we were asked for those names and so we have included records for those individuals who were here and share the same names.

Mainstream news outlets have reported this fact accurately. But for the right wing, the story was simply too good to be fact-checked.

I can see how Cap'n Crunch missed it, but the Moonie Times and not one but two different Weekly Standard meatheads were simply just not intelligent enough to realize that there may be more than one Jeremiah Wright or William Ayers in the world.

Their first instinct is to just lie. It really, really does not matter to some of them if what they say about Obama is true or not. They don't check facts, and they assume you won't either.