Time for more fun with the Wall Street Journal. Today the WSJ criticizes Senator Sam Brownback's hold on Julie Finley's nomination to be ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (subscription required):
Last time we checked, it required a coalition to sustain a political majority, and Ms. Finley is being nominated for what is basically a security (not a social policy) post. Republicans don't want to become the mirror image of those Democrats who blocked Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey from speaking at their convention in 1988 because he was pro-life.
Apparently the Journal can't even get the dates right on the disinformation it spreads. Casey was prevented from speaking to the convention in 1992, not 1988, and it's a myth that he was blocked because he was pro-life. Many other pro-life Democrats spoke at that convention. As Michael Crowley reported in The New Republic in 1996, the reason Casey was blocked is that he wouldn't endorse the Clinton-Gore ticket.
Update 6/8: Media Matters makes the same point, noting that Casey actually did speak to the Democratic convention in 1988.
Update 6/15: Media Matters notes that the WSJ corrected the date but not the false claim about Casey.
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