As both Republican operatives and desperate Clintonites seek to tie Barack Obama to the incendiary remarks of pastor Jeremiah Wright, a story making the rounds about Obama's attendance at one particular service has left egg on a few faces.
An article yesterday on right-wing propaganda site Newsmax asserted that, "Contrary to Senator Barack Obama's claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the minister blamed the 'white arrogance' of America's Caucasian majority for the world's suffering, especially the oppression of blacks." This was picked up and reported unquestioningly by Times columnist Bill Kristol in a piece that ran today. Only one problem: