Bill Kristol, Ronald Kessler and Newsmax
March 17, 2008 – 8:40 pm(via Xyre) In a column in the New York Times today, Bill Kristol stated that Barack Obama “was in fact in the pews” when his pastor, Jeremiah White, made some disparaging remarks about the United States last July.
It was pointed out very quickly that the information was incorrect, and Senator Obama was not at church that day. It turns out that Kristol’s source was an article by Ronald Kessler at Newsmax which asserted that Obama was there. Kessler knew that this didn’t reflect well on him, so cleaned up his Wikipedia entry to try to hide it. We know how well that worked out for him…