The Lobster Dinner that wasn't

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Salon

Last Friday, the New York Post's famous gossip column, Page Six, printed what seemed like a devastating report, with potential to impact the election. "Though he's battling GOP accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous," the report read. "While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six."

Page Six is known for being less than absolutely devoted to the truth, especially when it's going after one of its column's favorite targets. (Sometimes, those targets seem related to the interests of the newspaper's parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.) Still, even for Page Six, this story reeked. There was the thin sourcing, of course. Plus -- she ate Iranian caviar? Come on. Apparently, someone just couldn't resist adding that extra little bit of detail, but it was obviously too good to be true.

Lo and behold, it was -- turns out Obama couldn't even have been at the hotel at the time the column said she was.


Read more: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/10/21/lobster/

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More right wing fabricated bullshit.

[Olney Blue]

1. Doubt she would be eating like that with her beautiful figure.

[Miss Chybil]

2. And this plays against the 150k shopping sprees for Palins clothes

like... How? Oh! Oh! I know! One is true and one isn't.

[trueblue2007]

3. I wish the Obama would go after them for slander.