Newsweek's Pinata of Errors: Niall Ferguson's Trashing of Obama

It's hard to believe that progressive bloggers didn't get together to pay Newsweek to run Niall Ferguson's piece on Obama. The thing is so shot full of easily identifiable errors no serious publication would ever allow it into print. It already has been picked to pieces by Paul Krugman, Ezra Klein and Mark Thoma, among others.

My personal favorite was this little item picked up by Josh Holland. It seems that Ferguson can't even get straight who he supported in 2008. In the latest piece he was...