L.A. Times publishes anti-Obama hit piece

Must...resist...temptation...to...vote...for...Obama.

If you read this blog, you know I'm a Green. But each time some right-wing news outlet publishes a Republican hit piece against Obama, I'm more and more tempted to vote for the Democratic standard-bearer.

In a blog entry for the right-leaning Los Angeles Times, Andrew Malcolm (Laura Bush's former press secretary) claims that Obama made light of McCain having his fingers injured while he was a POW. What Malcolm said of Obama is a filthy lie. Obama made no mention of McCain's hand injuries.

An Obama ad criticized the McCain campaign for being too far behind the times to know how to use a computer or e-mail. Obama said nothing about McCain not being able to type because of his injuries. In fact, very few people (and probably none of those involved with the ad) knew until after this ad was made that McCain couldn't type.

Unless you're fucking stupid, you can see that the ad makes no reference to McCain being injured.

So Andrew Malcolm lied outright.

The Los Angeles Times blog is chock-full of manufactured stories like this. One wonders if Free Republic didn't buy the Times while we weren't looking. On the other hand, the Times has long leaned well to the right.

In its next session - regardless of how the presidential election turns out - Congress must take up investigating right-wing media bias.

Congrats, L.A. Times. You just got shitcanned here, just like ABC, NBC, Fox, and so on.