Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 8:56 PM Pacific

How paranoid is this?

Over at NRO's The Corner, K-Lo floats a hilarious (but definitively false) conspiracy theory that Obama has picked Evan Bayh as his VP, that an aide inadvertently announced the decision to 400 supporters by pressing 'send' instead of 'save', and that CNN picked up on the announcement only to later pull the story out of deference to Obama.

Who knows whether or not Obama has actually picked Bayh, but this particular report is based on a screenshot that is an obvious Photoshop, complete with a typo. But the big giveaway is that while the text of the article does not have TrueType (smooth fonts) turned on, the rest of the page does. The font spacing is also wrong on the date stamp. Moreover, the title of the post in the title bar and the tab don't match (which is impossible to accomplish in IE).

Update: The RW is having a blast with this one. Hot Air picked it up too, but is now betting that it's a hoax. Which it obviously is.

How paranoid is this?

Over at NRO's The Corner, K-Lo floats a hilarious (but definitively false) conspiracy theory that Obama has picked Evan Bayh as his VP, that an aide inadvertently announced the decision to 400 supporters by pressing 'send' instead of 'save', and that CNN picked up on the announcement only to later pull the story out of deference to Obama.

Who knows whether or not Obama has actually picked Bayh, but this particular report is based on a screenshot that is an obvious Photoshop, complete with a typo. But the big giveaway is that while the text of the article does not have TrueType (smooth fonts) turned on, the rest of the page does. The font spacing is also wrong on the date stamp. Moreover, the title of the post in the title bar and the tab don't match (which is impossible to accomplish in IE).

Update: The RW is having a blast with this one. Hot Air picked it up too, but is now betting that it's a hoax. Which it obviously is.

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