Conservative Torygraph gets called on their bogus "Rahm is leaving" story

A new item in the conservative London Telegraph, published today, has a catchy headline: “Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House.” The supposed news, that he’ll be out in “six to eight months,” has already made its way onto a number of US news sites and blogs, including the New York Daily News, and I’m sure it’ll be a topic of chatter Monday.

Don’t read much into it.

The Telegraph is a right-wing paper that has published allegedly unsubstantiated stories about the Obama administration in the past. Take for example one, written in March by Alex Spillius — the same author of today’s Rahm story — which boldly announced, “Barack Obama threatens to withdraw support from wavering Democrats.”

That one didn’t even purport to have sources — named or anonymous — it simply made the assertion, out of nowhere, that Obama was blackmailing Democrats and threatening to strip his support for them in the November elections to get their votes on the health care bill.

A White House spokesman told me at the time the story was bogus, and Robert Gibbs said as much in a briefing later.

Point is, read this new article with some skepticism, especially since it’s common knowledge that Rahm won’t be chief of staff for the whole Obama presidency (does anybody keep that job throughout?)

http://trueslant.com/sahilkapur/2010/06/20/the-telegraphs-suspicious-story-about-rahm-quitting-wh/