Well, isn't this precious? We now know why both Newsbusters and the wanks over at Free Republic were in such a hurry to erase any record of their posted shot at Bill Clinton (see previous posts for the background if you need to come up to speed on this one).
Amusingly, America's Dumbest Wanker™ himself gives us the answer, as he writes (his limited intellect clearly baffled by breaking developments) in "UPDATE 2" here:
Looks like Clinton's statement was actually made back in 1999. Strange that the media reported it as if it was current.
Why, yes, Jinx. And you were so unspeakably dishonest as to simply suck up the swill of that claim from your favourite right-wing news source without checking whether it was even relevant. You can read the mainstream media's take on this story here (emphasis added), in which the MSM most emphatically did not report it as current, despite Weasel Boy's insistence:
In death, Rosa Parks is joining a select few, including presidents and war heroes, accorded a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda. It's the place where, six years ago, President Clinton and congressional leaders lauded the former seamstress for a simple act of defiance that changed the course of race relations...
Parks, who for many years worked in the office of Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in ceremonies in the Rotunda in June 1999.
Clinton said he was 9 years old when Parks refused to give up her seat. and he and his friends "couldn't figure out anything we could do since we couldn't even vote. So we began to sit in the back of the bus when we got on."
We can now hazard a guess at the chain of events. One or more MSM outlets, in writing about Parks, mentioned the story that Clinton told when he presented Parks with the Congressional Gold Medal back in 1999.
Worthless, dumbfuck, right-wing organizations like NewsBusters and Free Republic, slavering at the thought of insulting Bill Clinton one more time, jumped on the offending sentence without bothering to read the surrounding context to realize that it referred to an event more than six years ago.
Said dumbfuck organizations ran with this story ever so briefly until someone clued them in and pointed out that they were about six years too late and this just made them look like total assholes, at which point they scrambled frantically to remove any traces of the dumbfuckitude from their web sites before anyone was so mind-bogglingly stupid as to take them seriously and actually link to them. But, sadly, it was too late.
Wasn't that a great story? And if you're all good little readers, Uncle CC will tell you another story tomorrow. He's not sure which one it will be but it will almost certainly involve a right-wing dumbfuck or two.
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