politburo diktat 2.0

Dear Barbara: Try looking

Here’s the deal. The Kossacks and Lefties are claiming that the “Air America stole money from poor kids” story is fake. Leading the charge, Barbara O’Brien of Mahablog. At her own blog, at dKos, at the American Street, etc., her post has sprung up.

“Air America stole from poor children” … a story that appears to be phony. … So how does the Washington Times know about this outrage? From “sources quoted anonymously by the Bronx News,” it says. I live about a ten minutes’ drive from the Bronx and wasn’t aware there is a Bronx News. Nor could I find the Bronx News through Google.

She couldn’t find the Bronx News through Google? Either she didn’t try very hard, or she’s lying. If you’re looking for an article by “Michael Horowitz” of the “Bronx News,” and you don’t Google those four words and look at the sixth entry, I have to wonder just how hard you wanted to find it.

Barbara, you constantly call Bush a liar. YOU are a liar.

Just for the record, here is the reference to the allegedly non-existent Bronx News, from a webpage copyrighted 2002:

Bronx Community Board # 11 - Economic Development
Community Resources
Newspapers

BRONX NEWS
163 Dreiser Loop
Bronx, New York 10475
(718) 671-1234
FAX: (914) 636-2957
Chris Hagedorn, Editor
Michael Horowitz
(718) 320-0215

The Bronx News appears to be a very small newspaper, but not at all hard to find on Google.

And she has the gall to headline her entry “How to Fake News: A Primer.” So, are all Lefties liars or just lazy?

Bloggers covering the original story, who might be interested in Mahablog’s fake de-bunking:
The Anchoress
Kevin at Wizbang
La Shawn Barber
Michelle Malkin
Captain Ed
Radio Equalizer - with follow-up on the ‘fake news’ angle
Flopping Aces
Red State Rant
Uncorrelated
The LLama Butchers
Mark Coffey

UPDATE:

If you want, you can read Mahablog’s entry, the update, and the comments. Here’s the short version (of the world according to Mahablog):

BEFORE:

“How to Fake News … it can’t be verified … I couldn’t find [Bronx News] thru Google … Bronx News which may or may not exist … the elusive Bronx News …”

AFTER:

“I never said this was fake news nor that the Bronx News didn’t exist. I only said that the drooling, knee-jerking, pathetic, desperate, abusive Kool-aid-drinking twits were engaged in a circle-jerk based on a rinky-dink newspaper’s undersourced report.”

Oh .. okay. That’s very rational and reasoned.

Barbara also resorts to the “cowardice of the stupid and the wrong” — deleting comments. She’s just another Paul at Wizbang, beneath contempt.