Poor Tim Graham. He just can’t get over the macaca thing.
Graham isn’t even two paragraphs into his Oct. 13 NewsBusters post ostensibly about a Washington Post reporter’s comments about William Ayers before he’s pointing out that the reporter he’s criticizing “spent 2006 making an enormous mountain out of George Allen’s utterance of ‘macaca.'”
As we’ve noted, Graham remained bitter for months after the 2006 election over coverage of Allen’s “macaca” remark. He still is, apparently.
Anyway, Graham does make his way to accusing the reporter of not “explaining how Ayers recruited [Barack] Obama to the Annenberg Challenge,” going on to assert that the PolitiFact.org item on Obama and Ayers cited by the reporter — which points out that the Annenberg Challenge was funded by noted Republican Walter Annenberg, staffed by “mainstream” folks and funded by “a host of respected, mainstream institutions” — was somehow a lie. Rather than refuting any of the actual claims in it, Graham complained that it “trash[ed] Stanley Kurtz of National Review” and wasn’t “detached fact checking.” Graham also doesn’t note that, as we’ve pointed out, contrary to his assertion that “Ayers recruited Obama to the Annenberg Challenge,” any evidence that that actually happened is circumstantial at best.
Perhaps Graham was a little too busy thinking about macaca to actually refute the fact-check.