We're talking about this Loretta Lynch, the one invited to the White House. Try to keep up.
Ah,
the perils of attack jourmalism.
According to a November 8 Breitbart.com article by Warner Todd Huston, "few are talking about" the fact [Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch] "was part of Bill Clinton's Whitewater probe defense team in 1992." Huston pointed to a March 1992 New York Times article that "reported that Lynch was one of the Clintons' Whitewater defense attorneys as well as a 'campaign aide.'" And in a November 9 article Huston's colleague, Breitbart.com Senior Editor-at Large Joel Pollak wrote, "The connection to Whitewater ought to provide additional fodder for Republicans during Lynch's confirmation hearings."
It would indeed be moderately interesting, perhaps, if any part of it was true. It's not. The Breitbart brain trust did not take into account the notion that there might be more than one person in America named
Loretta Lynch, and had giddily presumed that Loretta Lynch, the black U.S. Attorney for Eastern New York, was also Loretta Lynch, a white California-based attorney who has held various offices and been involved with various campaigns over the years. This facts-are-such-liberal-things foul-up (eventually) led to a terse correction at the bottom of the article noting that everything you had just read was bullplop.
The Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney.
And then (even more eventually) someone figured out that the "correction" made everyone involved look even stupider, which led to the unceremonious deletion of the article later that day. Media Matters
has archived the original, however.
So here's the question—how much will the provable fact of the two Loretta Lynches being different people harm the future narrative of them in fact being the same person? It seems unusual for them to give up on the notion so easily. The Breitbart crowd is the same crowd that considers conservative story-forger James O'Keefe to be a crackerjack jourmalist; the odds are high that by the end of the month we will have a conservative documentary suggesting that all ten or twenty or fifty people in the nation named Loretta Lynch are the same person, a master of disguise who flits from town to town, holding down careers and raising families and driving automobiles in each in preparation for the eventual day when something-something Barack Obama.
You know there are conservatives right now with the idea percolating in their heads. All right, so it's been proven that the two people named Loretta Lynch are completely different people on different sides of the continent, but has it really been proven? Or is it in fact just as likely that IT IS ALL A DEVIOUS PLAN?