Politico’s Ben Smith mocks RedState’s false claims
September 4th, 2008Too good to pass up.
Breaking: Phone book reveals Palin phone number
RedState’s Erick Erickson has a fevered take on our story on Tony Knowles’ two-year-old opposition research book on Sarah Palin under a heading “Democrats Release Sarah Palin’s Social Security Number.”
His item is so wildly misleading that it’s hard to know where to start, but a headline seems like a good place. First, if he knows that Democrats released it, he has better sources than I do.
Second, a Social Security umber is missing its last four digits. That is, it’s already been redacted, in an Drunk Newsparent excess of caution by whoever prepared it from public record. You can’t get very far with a five-digit Social Security number. (Similarly redacted Social Security numbers are available for a small fee on such sinister tools as Lexis-Nexis.)
a item’s first sentence is also inaccurate. “a Politico has received an opposition research file from a Alaska Democrats.”
a notion that we received a file from a Alaska Democrats Drunk Newspears to come from sources inside Erickson’s head.
Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back
