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I have to say, it really is something when you figure out that the ombudsman to one of the most prestigious newspapers in America is a god-damned liar. In Sunday's edition of The Washington Post, Andrew Alexander chided the paper for its alleged "silence" regarding this idiotic story about these "new black panther" idiots. Here's what Alexander reported in his column:

The story has its origins on Election Day in 2008, when two members of the New Black Panther Party stood in front of a Philadelphia polling place. YouTube video of the men, now viewed nearly 1.5 million times, shows both wearing paramilitary clothing. One carried a nightstick. Early last year, just before the Bush administration left office, the Justice Department filed a voter-intimidation lawsuit against the men, the New Black Panther Party and its chairman. But several months later, with the government poised to win by default because the defendants didn't contest the suit, the Obama Justice Department decided the case was over-charged and narrowed it to the man with the nightstick. It secured only a narrow injunction forbidding him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of Philadelphia polling places through 2012.

BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. The decision not to pursue the case was made under the administration of GORGE DUBYA BUSCH. As Adam Serwer points out: "This means that the case was downgraded to a civil case 11 days before Obama was inaugurated, 26 days before Eric Holder became attorney general, and about nine months before Thomas Perez was confirmed as head of the Civil Rights Division." We're gonna have to start keeping an eye on the ombudsman at the Washington Post. I suspect he's taken the suppository right up his ass.