Nice job by AmSpec’s Philip Klein here. Keith Olberdouche and Krazy Huffy lambasted Rudy Giuliani on Olby’s Countdown, for apparently saying the Dems would invite Osama bin Laden to the White House.

That was based on a report by an AP story, quoting Giuliani as saying:

“This is the world we live in. It’s not this happy, romantic-like world where we’ll negotiate with this one, or we’ll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we’ll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we’ll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House,” Giuliani said.

“Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,” he added.

Emphasis mine. One problem with all of that. Rudy never said “Osama”. He said Assad; As in Bashar al-Assad, whom many Dems said they’d negotiate with without any preconditions. Despite actually playing the clip at least once on his own show, Olby and Huffy continued lambasting Rudy for saying something he never actually said.

Klein writes:

Now, it’s perfectly accurate for Giuliani to hit Obama for wanting to invite Ahmadinejad and Assad to Washington, as Obama said he was willing to do here. Clinton later joined him, at least on Iran, here. If you want to argue that Giuliani went overboard by joking that the Democrats “are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,” that’s one thing. But clearly what sensationalized this entire story is the idea that Giuliani was saying that Democrats want to invite Osama bin Laden to the White House. That’s a claim that Giuliani clearly did not make, and the AP, as well as bloggers who picked up the story, and Olbermann, should correct the error.

Olberdouce? Apologize? I’m not holding my breath.

H/t Allah.