Gee, you think former president Bill Clinton hit a nerve when he warned about today's rampant, violent anti-government rhetoric and how it's reminiscent of the same right-wing hate that seemed to fuel Timothy McVeigh's terror attack in 1995? Ever since his comments, the GOP Noise Machine has gone bonkers attacking Clinton. (All the while letting right-wing terrorist McVeigh off the hook, right Rush?)

In the case of Washington Times columnist Tony Blankley, today he simply rewrites history. (i.e. He makes stuff up.) The irony? Blankey's column claims Clinton's guilt of fudging the facts.

Clinton is not, but Blankley sure is.

Here's his claim [emphasis added]:

By coincidence, I have found myself involved in both of Mr. Clinton's attempted repetitions. As Newt Gingrich's press secretary in 1995, I received the calls of reporters asking me to respond to Clinton White House-generated accusations that our Contract with America rhetoric had caused Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Oklahoma City government building.

Wow, the White House oversaw a coordinated attempt to link the Oklahoma City bombing with Gingrich and his Contract with America? The Democratic White House recklessly attacked Gingrich and pointed to the GOP's Contract with American for being the trigger that caused McVeigh to kill 168 innocent people?

Whatever you say Tony. As long as conservatives get to play the victim, right?

But good luck searching through the Nexis news archives for the flood of articles from April and May of 1995, about how the White House did any such thing. Good luck finding them because the articles don't exist. Blankley seems to have invented the entire Clinton claim, and then built a column around the falsehood.

Behold “conservative journalism.”

UPDATED: Note this Blankey passage, which perfectly captures the Noise Machine's take on right-wing terrorist McVeigh:

"...no one should be blamed for the conduct of a murderous lunatic like McVeigh."

Pretty much sums it up.