Breitbart is The New Satire Site.
The the annals of cool and unique ideas, the ultra conservative Breitbart website has decided to satirize themselves.
This weekend, they did an amazing story about President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch. And that would have been cool except they did not know who Loretta Lynch is. And their brain neurons did not synapse far enough to realize that maybe, just maybe, there might be more than one Loretta Lynch in America.
They headlined.
The prosecutor has a long career built of some high profile cases but there is one case Lynch was involved in that few are talking about. Lynch was a part of Bill Clinton’s Whitewater probe defense team in 1992. In 1992, the Clintons came under fire for investing in a perennially failing Arkansas real estate company known as Whitewater Development, a venture heavily subsidized by Clinton friend Jim McDougal in an effort to soften the losses the Clintons were experiencing as investors. blah, blah, blah, etc …. The Clintons escaped any convictions in the probe. A New York Times article from March of 1992 reported that Lynch was one of the Clintons’ Whitewater defense attorneys as well as a “campaign aide.”
Anyway, the article goes on for paragraphs of purple prose about how well connected Loretta Lynch is to those evil, evil, holy cow evil Clintons.
Oops.
Wrong Loretta Lynch.
Clinton’s Lynch is one the left, Obama’s on the right.
But, let’s not stop there.
Oh no. Let’s continue this fun.
After about 48 hours, Breitbart issued a correction. Here’s how it looked. The story stayed exactly the same, except at the bottom …
So you read a whole book about how Winston Churchill had a secret life as a whoremongering mass murderer and then the last addendum says … “oops, wrong Churchill.”
Hey Brietbart — oops, wrong profession.
Thanks to Brian and David for the heads up.