Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd, Barbara Walters and Bill Geddes are sadly mistaken about how Obama's Jerusalem Wailing Wall prayer became public knowledge. Whoopi said she didn't know all the facts. And she diminished what's left of the show's credibility in one five minute segment.

So, Whoopi Goldberg, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't bring it up. Especially if you ADMIT you don't know all the facts. It's very reckless. I expect a major apology from all of you tomorrow. (Friday is on tape.)

It happened about 11:15-11:18 am, EST July 30, 2008.

Goldberg said Obama released his Wailing wall prayer message to the press.

This is wrong. Charlie Gibson must be doing their news gathering.

The Israeli paper that claimed he did admitted they lied yesterday.

Whoopi Goldberg, take a look at this.

"Yesterday, I posted an item about an accusation from Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv that the Obama campaign had leaked a copy of his Western Wall note to the foreign press (rather than Ma'ariv having bought it from some yeshiva kid who stole it out of the wall). After some additional reporting last night, I noted that the story sounded a bit fishy--not only has Ma'ariv not offered any tangible evidence to support this claim, but they also have only made the claim via a spokesman to various Israeli papers rather than printing the accusation in their own paper."

--Zvika Krieger

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/29/obama-vindicated.aspx

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