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Gullibility and the Trial Lawyer Mini-Flap (With Clarification)

Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 02:05:46 PM PDT

One thing I've never thought of Kos (the guy, not the site) as being was gullible.  When I first saw the diary linking to HuffPo, I giggled - they took a statement about what options Barack Obama opted against in favor of doing community organizing - which included "trial lawyer" - and turned it into an right-wing assault on trial lawyers generally and John Edwards specifically.  I giggled - I didn't expect that diary to get rec'd up, and it didn't.

Then, I saw the front page about 30 minutes later, with a Kos by-line, with the only difference being a link to a WaPo article.

While random anti-Obama diarists make me giggle - with Kos, I tend to expect some "there" to be there...  So, I searched Google News & every other resource I could think of, but could not find the original text of the speech, one that includes a quote of Obama bashing trial lawyers.  

So, can anybody find that?  And if not, isn't someone owed an apology?

Update: Some people seem to construe this diary as a denial that Obama used the phrase "that's why I didn't become a trial lawyer" in some sentence that he spoke in some speech.  That is not it's purpose at all.  Obviously, that phrase does not constitute a smear.  If the context was, as both WaPo & HuffPo admit, an explication of his great desire to be a community organizer over other attractive & more lucrative careers, then there is no smear. But both WaPo & HuffPo  --- and Kos, and apparently Atrios - construe it as a smear.  So, they must have access to the rest of the sentence where we can read "trial lawyers suck, and... that's why I didn't become a trial lawyer", or something of that sort.  So, I say, let's hear it!

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