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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Oliver Burkeman

Obama's VP: It's Evan Bayh, highly reliable internet hoax reveals

This picture, according to the right-wing rumourmongers at Free Republic, is a screenshot of a story, published in error and since removed from CNN.com. If it really is, I'll eat my own face, but the tale it relates deserves points for being imaginative. Sadly it loses them for being full of spelling errors and ridiculously bad writing, and for using the wrong font:

In a move to increase its mailing list, the Obama campaign had planned to give supporters a heads-up prior to the official announce[ment] through a massive email and text-message campaign. In order to reduce the amount of work that had to be completed the day of the announcement, the campaign had maintained a generic email that only required the name of the pick to be filled in. But when the name of the pick -- now known to be Indiana Senator Evan Bayh -- was filled in, the aide working on the email accidentally pressed the "send" button, rather than the intended "save" button.


And let's be honest -- we have all been there.

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