Greta Van Susteren Taken In By Bad Andrew Malcolm Headline

A bit of advice for Fox News host Greta Van Susteren: Don't take your cues from the L.A. Times' serially inaccurate Andrew Malcolm. Writing on her blog, Van Susteren took White House press secretary Jay Carney to task for supposedly speaking out of turn:

Below is a headline from the LA Times and it is a bit weird...I sure hope President Obama's Press Secretary doesn't think HE is the President. He is just the messenger of the Administration. No President of any country should be getting a stern warning (or any warning) from the Press Secretary. The messages should be FROM THE PRESIDENT.

Susteren then linked to this post from Andrew Malcolm headlined “Yemen president gets a stern warning from Obama press secretary.” This, like pretty much everything Malcolm writes, is a stretch. The actual press release, seen here, is a standard-issue statement from the White House titled “Statement by the Press Secretary on Violence in Yemen.”

You can see many other press releases phrased this way here, and in case you thought this phrasing was an invention of the Obama administration -- you'd be wrong. Or you would be Greta Van Susteren.