Those Lazy Bloggers
Blogger Andrew Malcolm really, really does us bloggers proud when he excoriates Barack Obama for wearing a flag lapel pin:
According to a touching-possibly-true-but-then-again-you-never-know-in-big-time-politics report circulating on several blogs during the night, the pin was reportedly given to Obama Tuesday morning by a disabled veteran whose name nobody seems to know right now.
So naturally not wanting to hurt the vet's feelings, how could the 46-year-old Obama do anything other than immediately put the pin back on his public lapel for as long as necessary?
If we were cynical and had over the years seen even the most seemingly idealistic politicians sway with the winds in the face of political pressure just before a crucial election, we'd write something about how convenient that no one caught the vet's name.
But wait, there's more. While Andrew Malcolm was launching his vituperative attack against the Marxian(?) Barack Obama for his false patriotism, it seems that his loyal readers provided a fact check, and before lunchtime no less.
CNN has the video in which Obama not only received the pin, but acknowleged by name, no less, the veteran who gave it to him.
Who is this pajama clad, angry, individual who obviously has no journalistic training, or would have done some basic fact checking to see if the story was true?
From the link above:
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
The "Times" in question, is the site that hosts his blog.
The Los Angeles Times.
Ironic, isn't it.
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