William Kristol, editor of the unapologetically conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, lied outright in an op-ed blasting Obama in the New York Times today. You can read his column here. Like most trying to exploit Obama's pastor in an effort to take down the Democratic front-runner, Kristol bent over backwards trying to trap Obama in a lie; that is, Kristol scrambled to find any shred of evidence that would place Obama at one of the reverend's vitriolic speeches. Obama claims that he has never heard one of Wright's politically-charged sermons.
Kristol, you can tell, really wanted to prove him wrong. And he did. Or, at least, he wanted to think he did.
As reported here, Kristol relied on an inaccurate source to prove Obama attended a July 22nd sermon that featured some of Wrights greatest hits. Barack, in fact, was here.
Nice try, Kristol. You've either 1) published an all-out lie in the country's preeminent newspaper, or 2) practiced inexcusably lazy journalism by not checking your source's claims before sending them to your editor.
Either way, the only reputation you've tarnished is your own.
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