I wish I was kidding. Here are just two extended WAR quotes from his Reason Magazine interview that are parsed and filleted with clinical precision at Classically Liberal : The most dangerous thing you should know about Barack Obama is that I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him... I mean, when I went to Columbia, the black kids were all at like tables going "Black Power!" We used to walk by and go, "What the hell are they talking about." And they didn't associate with us and we didn't associate with them. So if you track down a couple of black students, they'll probably know him. But nobody white's ever heard of this guy. It's quite amazing. Nobody remembers him. They don't remember him sitting in class.... I say the whole problem with America is we are racist against people because of the color of their skin. We're helping people because they're black. We're helping people because they're minority. We'r...

What's really intriguing is how different posts get spun at different blogs, even though people usually have the ability to click through and check for themselves. I've come to believe that probably fewer than 5-10% of readers --especially those who believe in the slant taken by the blog in question-- ever click through to determine whether stories are being reported accurately, or if quotations are taken out of context . Here's my case study for today, based on the interview that occasionally-in-the-public-eye-for-a-few-seconds LP Veep Candidate Wayne Allyn Root gave to Queerty in San Francisco. Eric Dondero's Libertarian GOPer sandwiches in one Root quotation into this characterization of the interview : Libertarian VP Candidate Wayne Root blasts Affirmative Action in Interview with Gay Magazine: Calls for Free Market-based diversity Wayne Root has been accused in the past as having a heluva lot of Chuztpa. He tells it like it is, even if it may not jive with what ce...