Because when you catalog as many lies as Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft does, your bound to stumble, like with this recent headline

TEAM OBAMA CALLS IN SWAT TEAM ON TEA PARTY PATRIOTS!

The fact-free claimed kick off this week's ritual heavy-breathing shtick within the right-wing blogosphere regarding the Evils Of Obama. The alleged controversy here is almost too dumb to detail, so I'm not going to waste a lot of time on, other than to say the Tea Partiers' open contempt for law enforcement is reaching disturbing levels (policemen looked at us while we marched!!), especially considering the movement's already well-advertised love of violent, insurgency rhetoric.

But, did “Obama” call in the SWAT team as Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft claimed? Um, no. That was done by the local police who were tasked with augmenting security to a local Obama appearance. “Obama” himself had nothing to do with local police actions. (Duh.) But Hoft and his Chicken Little readers loved the way it sounded to claim that the President of the United States was on the horn demanded a larger show of force.

Whatever.

But take a look at what Hoft later wrote, as noted by the site, St. Louis Activist Hub [emphasis added]:

The Quincy Police Department released a statement today following the embarrassing incident yesterday when they called in the SWAT squad to quash the peaceful tea party protest outside the convention center during Barack Obama's visit.

Oh my, that's queer. Soon after Hoft claimed “Obama” called in the SWAT team, Hoft's matter-of-factly reported that the local police had called for the SWAT team.

In other words, Hoft debunked his own junk.

Thanks Jim!

UPDATED: Take a couple steps back and you'll realize the hysterical reaction to this story centers around the fact that the Secret Service, as well as local police, are being attacked by conservatives for providing too much protection for the president during a local Obama visit.

Kind of chilling, no?

UPDATED: As Dave Weigel at the Washington Post notes, it wasn't even a “SWAT team” that was very briefly deployed, it was local police in riot gear.

So let's return to Hoft's original headline:

TEAM OBAMA CALLS IN SWAT TEAM ON TEA PARTY PATRIOTS!

The “Obama” part was a lie and the “SWAT team” part was a lie. But other than that the headline was fine.