Why does Obama need to raise money...

...he's got the media working for him.

The Washington Post is pushing the envelope on defamation, even though Romney is a public figure:

One of the “witnesses” used in the Washington Post hit piece seems to have thrown a wrench in the narrative. Stu White, a Romney friend, has this to say:

White was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.

Read that again.

Stu White was not present for the prank and wasn’t even aware of it until the Washington Post contacted him THIS YEAR about it.

No big deal, you say? Well it is a big deal because this is what the Washington Post said as it relates to Stu White:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and has long been bothered by the Lauber incident. “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.”

Emphasis mine. The Lauber incident is the one where Romney cut Lauber’s hair.

Now, how was Stu White long “bothered” by an incident in 1965 that he didn’t know of until 2012? Hmm?

Someone has some explaining to do.

The reaction comes from an ABC article that is framed in a weirdly passive-aggressive way; essentially making the story about how the Romney campaign is going into a full defense mode in trying to enlist Stu White and his former friends into defending Romney, rather than, you know, going with the real story that a media outlet just committed actionable defamation by knowingly printing libel!

Not a day goes by when I'm not amazed by the partisan dishonesty of the mainstream media, and then I'm more amazed by the fact that I can be amazed.