The Huffington Post Gleefully Falls for a Hoax. [UPDATE] They almost sound sorry for this one.

I guess that they really have joined the ranks of the media.

[UPDATE]: HuffPo now regrets the error.  Full points for retracting it in the story itself; 75% off the total for blaming it on a third party and not their own shoddy fact-checking.

They’re playing the same behavior pattern of slovenly reporting. In this case, failing to confirm before they screamed and leaped. Via Hot Air Headlines, johnny dollar has the details: to summarize, a video used by the HuffPo that purported to have a radio talk-show host compare Eric Holder to a monkey turned out to been a cheesy overdub. One that would have been obvious to anybody who examined the original feed Continue reading The Huffington Post Gleefully Falls for a Hoax. [UPDATE] They almost sound sorry for this one.