1.0 link 95778 <![CDATA[Jake Tapper's Smoke Detector Goes Off at ABC News]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/jake-tappers-smoke-detect_b_95778.html Did Obama fib about smoking as Tapper claimed? I have no idea. Does it matter in terms of Obama's White House run? I can't imagine how it would.

I don't even know how to describe Tapper's I-think-Obama-lied-about smoking report. It certainly does not represent journalism in any fundamental way. I don't mean to be juvenile, but I think the phrase brain fart comes closer to the actual description. Meaning, it's, "I have an idea in my head. I don't know...

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