JustASC

The usual dreary suspects are sending around a bogus report that Obama “dispatched his senior foreign-policy adviser, Robert Malley, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”

Not a word of that is true, as the JTA reports here. Malley has no role with Obama’s transition, does not and never did play a “senior advisory” role, and the Obama team categorically denies that he sent the man to the region.

I have one frequent emailer who forwards these things to a mass email list, and when I point out that a report has been denied and he should issue a retraction, tells me, “You can’t hold me to a higher standard than the MSM” (mainstream media, for the uninitiated). The mind reels.