... to this journalist ... about bumming a cigarette.

Only, he really didn't. Obama himself never told the guy he hadn't smoked and Obama later confessed to having "fallen off the wagon a couple of times" on MSNBC's Hardball a day or two ago.

But Jake doesn't like being lied to.

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Except that I don't like feeling that I wasn't being dealt with honestly. And as much as citizens who are suspect of the media might scoff at such a notion, many of us consider ourselves to be your representatives to help make sure our leaders are telling us the truth, and leading the country down a path we're confident is the right one. (Corny, I know.)-------------------------
and then here's his grand finale
----------------------------This isn't the only time I've felt that way about the Obama campaign, of course
-- its response to the Austan Goolsbee controversy was a profile in dissembling.-------------------------------------
wow. I can see exactly how they relate :|
Give me a break Jake ... do something revolutionary ... report the frickin' news.
What a joke.