First, Al Gore “took the initiative in creating the Internet”…

Then Hillary Clinton “was the namesake of Sir Edmund Hilary”…

Now, Barack Obama “was the product of an interracial marriage made possible by the march on Selma”…

“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.”

It’s a nice story, except for the fact that it’s a lie. Bloody Sunday happened on March 7, 1965. Obama, Jr. was born August 4, 1961, four years earlier.

Of course, when confronted with the lie, Obama’s campaign spun it like a ceiling fan on high speed…

Obama was born in 1961, four years before the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. But spokesman Bill Burton said Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”

Yeah, it’s a metaphor for “you’re lying your ass off.”