Check Your Facts, Please

I don't often wade into the political swamp because I don't enjoy it, and on my blog, I'll write about what I enjoy. However, every once in a while, politics swerves into the absurd, which interests me greatly.

It seems that former Presidential candidate John Kerry gave a speech this weekend lamenting the intimidation of voters in the last election. Let me be clear, I do not doubt that thuggish behavior by partisans on both sides took place, and that well-meaning people on both sides made efforts to prevent it. Nevertheless, Kerry's flacks should have looked into these issues more carefully before they allowed him to use this as an example:

"Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. ..." he said.

Unfortunately, this particular example came from satire publications Scrappleface.com and The Onion. Oops.

And if people really did hand out those leaflets? The world would be far more bizarre than I thought.

Hat tip: Opinion Journal.