Big kudos to JHC at Obamarama for keeping an eye on Dick Morris.

The backstory: After boosting up Obama, Morris thought he had a great take-down that exposed Obama’s duplicity on ethics reform.

Too bad his facts were completely wrong…

On The Hill’s website, Dick Morris has posted an apology for misrepresenting a vote Sen. Obama made on an ethics reform amendment, a story first highlighted on this blog yesterday morning.  In it, Morris retracts his allegations and even offers an apology:

“I sincerely apologize to the senator for my mistaken reading of the record and want to commend him for his correct vote on the issue, unlike the majority of his fellow Democrats, including likely presidential candidates Sens. Joseph Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).”

Good for him.  And good for all of you who contacted him and respectfully encouraged him to correct his error.

However, Morris’s retraction hasn’t kept other news organizations, including the conservative Washington Times newspaper, from running with the false allegations.  Fortunately for the Truth, Media Matters is all over this story.

This kind of stuff is great. JHC (apparently a former Media Matters staffer) noticed Morris’ error, and Media Matters picked it up and ran with it.

Too bad Morris’ apology likely will not appear wherever his column is syndicated. Expect this fake story to be repeated, regardless of the actual facts.