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Greta Van Susteren Taken In By Bad Andrew Malcolm Headline

April 07, 2011 10:33 am ET by Oliver Willis

A bit of advice for Fox News host Greta Van Susteren: Don't take your cues from the L.A. Times' serially inaccurate Andrew Malcolm. Writing on her blog, Van Susteren took White House press secretary Jay Carney to task for supposedly speaking out of turn:

Below is a headline from the LA Times and it is a bit weird...I sure hope President Obama's Press Secretary doesn't think HE is the President.  He is just the messenger of the Administration.  No President of any country should be getting a stern warning (or any warning) from the Press Secretary.  The messages should be FROM THE PRESIDENT.

Susteren then linked to this post from Andrew Malcolm headlined "Yemen president gets a stern warning from Obama press secretary." This, like pretty much everything Malcolm writes, is a stretch. The actual press release, seen here, is a standard-issue statement from the White House titled "Statement by the Press Secretary on Violence in Yemen."

You can see many other press releases phrased this way here, and in case you thought this phrasing was an invention of the Obama administration -- you'd be wrong. Or you would be Greta Van Susteren.

Tags: Los Angeles Times, FoxNews.com, Andrew Malcolm, Greta Van Susteren

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    • Author by progressivevoicedaily (April 07, 2011 10:44 am ET)
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      Notice how the right isn't arguing policy right now?? Could it be because their ideas are friggin horrible?? When 76% of the public is AGAINST your economic policies, this is what you criticize.
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    • Author by terrapin53 (April 07, 2011 11:20 am ET)
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      As I say, Obama could find a cure to breast cancer and all the right wingers would just say it shows him more intersted in women breasts than anything else. I hope he finds a cure to prostate cancer and maybe he will cure all the aholes that lie about him all the time.
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      • Author by progressivevoicedaily (April 07, 2011 11:31 am ET)
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        They would call it a conspiracy to put insurance companies and cancer drug manufactures out of business. Your right, he can't win no matter what he does in the right wing nutjob world.
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      • Author by anyfreedomleft (April 07, 2011 11:39 pm ET)
           
        as the old saying goes ... if person X (Obama) walked on water, the (fill-in-the-blank) media would report that X can't swim ...
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    • Author by jonimacaroni1 (April 07, 2011 11:25 am ET)
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      And if you read the comments, you'll see that many people were deluded into thinking that the fact that it came from the press secretary's office meant something significant too.
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    • Author by historygeek001 (April 07, 2011 1:47 pm ET)
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      Apparently Greta's allergy to facts is getting worse; this is blatant even for her.
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