Too Good to Check

Via Drudge, Portfolio flags the greatest correction ever. It seems that the diligent reporters at Huffington Post fell for a doctored video showing the awful Fox News host John Gibson comparing the awful Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey. It was a fake (but Gibson is still an idiot), and HuffPo posted this terrific update to the non-story:

And it seems that Wonkette's fact-checking department fell for it too. Perhaps this will make it into the paperback of David Denby's anti-Wonkette screed.