A few days ago, a reader wrote in to object to this post.

Your snarky post that Obama said he had “no contact” with Blago is incomplete.
He was referring to contact about the Senate seat:
“Asked what contact he’d had with the governor’s office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said ‘I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.’”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/questions-arise.html
So, will you correct your post, or do you prefer to leave lies uncorrected?

I argued that the reader was reading into the answer what he wanted to see, and ABC’s paraphrasing made the question more specific. The question was actually, “Mr. President-elect, did you have any contact — were you aware of — were you aware at all of what was happening with your Senate seat?” Two questions are asked, the first on “any contact,” and Obama’s answer was that there was no contact, which I argue is contradicted by the two men meeting at the National Governors Association meeting.

But nonetheless, today we learn from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal that . . . surprise! Obama “dispatched” Emanuel to “to begin talking up Mr. Obama’s preferred candidates.”

So once again, Obama’s initial “I had no contact” answer is proven to be inaccurate, or in a less sympathetic interpretation, a lie.