Fact Check: Conservatives Outraged by Obama’s Rug
Wingnut blogs like Hot Air have been outraged by Obama’s new Oval Office Rug. As usual, they are too busy being outraged to actually check the facts.
Dept. of Lame Gotcha Stories
King cribbed the arc/universe/justice concept, and credited it, but he phrased it differently. And his phrasing is the one that appears on the rug: “The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Towards Justice.” Parker never used those exact words. King did. Look, here’s a video of King using those exact words from 1965, which I found in six seconds of googling.
Ed Morrisey takes partial credit for this bogus scoop…..
When did this come out? Well, Tittle blogged about it in December 2008 at the Houston Chronicle. In July 2009, I wrote about it as an Obamateurism of the Day — and that was more than a year before the White House decided to commit their poor research into the press release for the Oval Office rug. When that happened, it became one of this week’s OOTDs, and will be one of the selections in tomorrow’s OOTW poll.
Congratulations, Ed.