hh….think of the howling headlines, the needling cracks from network anchors. Poppy even got knee-capped for off-the-cuff remarks about a check-out scanner.

I guess if Al Gore has thought for all these years that he invented the Inter-Webs it is OK for Barack Obama to think America invented the automobile. The NYT noted the goof deep in its live-blog but otherwise skipped right over it.

Shouldn’t be the lede covering the speech, but the mistake has to be in there somewhere, maybe even worth a sidebar on the US history of the auto industry and where it went bad.