A week ago, the Herald ran a story which, in its essence, was not true.  The paper did not know this.  It was the unwitting victim of a distortion created at The Washington Post, which produced the original story.  The Herald’s headline, which reflected the story, said: “Right-wing ‘lies’ force Obama adviser out”.

The story began: “The White House environmental adviser, Van Jones, a towering figure in the environment movement, has resigned after weeks of controversy stemming from his past activism … In a statement announcing his resignation, Jones said, ‘They [his critics] are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.’ ”

No.  The distortions have come from Jones.  Far from being “a towering figure in the environmental movement”, Jones was appointed to the Obama Administration despite a past as a hate-mongering Marxist who reinvented himself as an environmentalist to further his political agenda...

In her column in last Saturday’s edition, concerning the difficulties being faced by President Obama, Lara Marlowe said that Canadian commentator Mark Steyn accused Obama of trying to establish a “personality cult” like Saddam Hussein or North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

This had been reported in the New York Times.  However, what Mr Steyn actually wrote was “obviously we’re not talking about the cult of personality on the Saddam Hussein/Kim Jong-Il scale.”

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