A few weeks ago, I asked “Is there any major-newspaper reporter who is more consistently wrong than Andrew Malcolm?”

On Friday, the former press secretary to Laura Bush added to his growing reputation for being not only wrong, but obnoxiously wrong.

Malcolm wrote a blog post making fun of New York Governor David Paterson's statement about the Binghamton shootings that day. Malcolm twice referred to Paterson's statement as “strange” and poked fun at Paterson for purportedly forgetting “something called 9/11” when he referred to the shootings as “the worst tragedy and senseless crime in the history of this state.”

But Andrew Malcolm was wrong. Again. Paterson had said “in the history of this city,” not “state.”

Whoops. Nevermind.

Maybe in the future, Malcolm should take a moment or two to find out if he has any idea what he's talking about before he jumps at the opportunity to make fun of people who are reponding the massacre of 13 innocent people?