Earlier today, Ed Whelan mentioned a Washington Post story that called President Obama on his false claim that critics of his stimulus bill want to do nothing about the recession.

Over at my Washington Post forum, I make two additional points. First, the Post’s attempt to create moral equivalence between Obama and Bush on this point is, as Whelan notes, unconvincing:

[Shear and Kornblut] cite three examples. But Harry Reid did say that the Iraq war was lost, John Edwards and other Democrats did reject the concept of a “war on terror,” and Democrats do want the federal government to make a lot more decisions related to health care than Republicans do.

Second, how many times have we been told that Obama has a refreshing habit of presenting opposing points of view fairly? So much for that one.