Earlier this year, the White House attacked the car site Edmunds over its cash-for-clunker opinion. From the White House blog:

Busy Covering Car Sales on Mars, Edmunds.com Gets It Wrong (Again) on Cash for Clunkers

And . . .

So put on your space suit and compare the two approaches yourself:

Which brings us to today, via Jim over at the Campaign Spot. It turns out Edmunds was correct:

Remember when the White House, deciding they weren’t fighting enough battles on enough fronts, decided to take on the automotive site, Edmunds.com, for its criticism of “Cash for Clunkers”?
One of their points was, “we found out that motor vehicle output added 1.7% to economic growth in the third quarter — the largest contribution to quarterly growth in over a decade.”
Er, not anymore. The revised numbers out today indicate that automotive consumption was less than half initially estimated, contributing 0.81 of percentage point to growth. The overall quarterly growth number was revised from 3.5 percent to 2.8 percent.

I’m sure the White House will correct the record, eager as they are to “fight the smears” and all.