Late yesterday, ABC News posted a story online about a supposedly “testy exchange” that Barack Obama had with a New York Times reporter on a ropeline in South Carolina. The story made it sound like Obama had lost it. It fit right in with the meme-of-the-moment being pushed by the Clinton campaign: Obama is frustrated.
But if you take a look at the video of the exchange, it’s hard to see what possibly possessed the ABC reporter to characterize it as an angry confrontation between candidate and reporter. Take a look. I don’t see it.
We got sucked in, too, linking over to the ABC piece at Election Central and, briefly, featuring it here on our front page earlier this morning. Until we saw the video.
