Academic

TOWNHALL PLANT: Not only a fake doctor, but an OFA Organizer. Now that?s astroturf. And note the ?

By Glenn Reynolds

TOWNHALL PLANT: Not only a fake doctor, but an OFA Organizer. Now that’s astroturf. And note the Houston Chronicle’s complicity.

UPDATE: Reader Chris Martin writes: “Glenn, hi. Just so you know, the Chronicle did (at least in their online edition) follow up on the Roxana Mayer thing and did expose her as lying about her profession.” Good point, but I was referring to this: “Not only was Mayer not a doctor, Roxana Mayer was an Obama delegate, as Patterico discovered with some digging. What?s more, the Houston Chronicle apparently knew this and failed to include it in its glowing coverage of Mayer?s appearance. The reporter, Cindy Horswell, has admitted that she knew Mayer was an Obama delegate and that Mayer didn?t live in Jackson-Lee?s district when she wrote the Chronicle story.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).