Jeff Jacoby's column today in the Boston Globe,
Slurs fly from the left, is a lazy hit piece against the "toxic rhetoric" and "slanders and smears" that liberals direct at Republicans.
You can pick your own favorite from Jacoby's list of supposed liberal horrors, but mine is the canard about opponents of Michael Steele--Maryland's black Republican lieutenant governor and Senate candidate--"pelting" him with Oreos at a campaign appearance back in 2002.
''Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael Steele . . . are fair because he is a conservative Republican," The Washington Times reported. ''Such attacks . . . include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an 'Uncle Tom,' and depicting him as a blackfaced minstrel."
Technically, Jacoby is attributing the story to the Washington Times, but a lie is a lie, whether you source it or not. And repeating a lie that's been disproved many times over is particularly galling.
So help me out here, Mr. Jacoby--what was that about slanders and smears?