She's well known as the Coal Miner's Daughter with bias in favor of the working poor. And don't even get me started on her progressive stands on women's issues:
This won't stand with Andrew Breitbart's legacy website. How dare President Obama nominate Loretta Lynn as the nation's top prosecutor to replace Eric Holder!?!?
Oh wait, sorry. Breitbart was actually upset about Loretta Lynch being nominated:
Indeed, 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.
Well, no.
The reason no one was talking about it is because the nominee had nothing to do with the Clintons. Ever. Turns out there's more than one attorney named Loretta Lynch. The one Breitbart.com blew a gasket about is not the nominee, who serves as U.S. Attorney in New York.
Breitbart eventually figured this out, and posted a "correction." Sort of. They let the story stand, despite being entirely irrelevant to the actual nominee. An italicized sentence was appended at the end; no heads up at the beginning, or anywhere in its text. I don't know how many readers follow past the first screen of the story, but it definitely won't be all of them.
Correction: The Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney.
You can't make this shit up. Well, unless you're part of the teeming horde of right-wing nitwits. Making shit up is pretty much their
raison d'être.
UPDATE: I guess the widening circle of ridicule was a little too much. Breitbart.com took the ("corrected") story down overnight. h/t to TPM for this annotated screenshot for your viewing pleasure, and for posterity (h/t to smileycreek for the link):
As Josh Marshall at TPM noted, it would have been more than a little challenging to "correct" the story. It isn't like they just got Loretta Lynch's
alma mater wrong or her shoe size or something.