WSJ's Taranto backpedals on bogus poll information

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After getting caught redhanded by Media Matters For America and Al Franken.

If you recall, Taranto is the vile scumbag who quotes from DU and uses it as 'proof' that liberals are crazy. Total buffoon.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509210008

In his September 21 "Best of the Web" column on The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com website, and in an email to comedian and Air America Radio host Al Franken, OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto conceded that "t's possible" that he was "mistaken" in asserting on the September 16 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes that President Bush's job approval ratings had begun to bounce back after their historic lows in the wake of the botched federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Taranto was responding to a Media Matters for America item -- as well as emails he said the item generated -- in which we noted that he offered no poll numbers to back up his claim, and the available polling in fact refuted it.

After admitting in his OpinionJournal piece that "e haven't been paying close attention to the polls," Taranto lashed out at Media Matters, declaring "But if that's true , then we, being generally sympathetic to President Bush, are merely being fatuous, and Bush's opponents should be amused if not delighted. The Angry Left has no reason to be mad at us, but we guess anger is the only emotion the Angry Left knows."

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1. Hmmmm. Jimmy Tomato looks like he may have egg on his face

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2. Honey, We ain't the Angry Left

We're the Angry Left Behind. Remember us? You're a member of the Incompetent(Won't Be) Right There, Y'all on your own. Yup, the shoe fits sucker.