Brendan Nyhan

Tracking the Obama madrassa smear

Media Matters has a nice piece up tracking the dissemination of the Obama madrassa smear. As we showed at Spinsanity with our coverage of the the Ken Lay/Lincoln Bedroom myth and the NEA/9-11 myth, these things are hard to stop once they start spreading.

PS You know a hit piece on a black liberal is weak when the Washington Times and its racist editors are running away from it:

The Washington Times, which is also owned by the Unification Church, but operates separately from the Web site, quickly disavowed the article. Its national editor sent an e-mail message to staff members under the heading “Insight Strikes Again” telling them to “make sure that no mention of any Insight story” appeared in the paper, and another e-mail message to its Congressional correspondent instructing him to clarify to Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama that The Washington Times had nothing to do with the article on the Web site.

“Some of the editors here get annoyed when Insight is identified as a publication of The Washington Times,” said Wesley Pruden, editor in chief of The Washington Times.