A lot of folks are emailing me to say that Pelosi told the truth when she said people are carrying swastikas to these townhalls. The proof? This single photo:

Alan Colmes, for instance, says this is proof that Pelosi told the truth. But, wait a second. This is a single picture of a swastika. It also happens to have that red line through it. By this standard, similar anti-smoking signs are pro-smoking and anti-KKK protestors with the KKK crossed out with a line are also pro-KKK.

Pelosi’s comment very clearly gives the impression that these protestors are carrying swastikas in a very different way.

More seriously, even if you give Pelosi the benefit of the doubt and she had this picture in mind and simply misspoke (I don’t give her that benefit of the doubt, by the way), this is proof that these protest are “manufactured”? Proof that protestors are carrying swastikas to these town halls (plural)? Please.

And it’s worth noting, left-wing groups show up with professional, pre-printed, signs all the time. And I don’t remember the mainstream press entertaining the idea that such protests are “manufactured.”