Well, That Clears That Up, Right?

So Kitty Seeyle clarified her ridiculous statement about Yearly Kos "booing Mother Teresa":

Just to address some confusion, we want to offer a belated but much-needed explanation about the booing of Mother Teresa that I should have provided earlier in the original post from the Kos conference: It was a passing reference to a light remark made by the emcee of a trivia quiz.

It was meant to be funny.

One of the quiz questions was to identify three people in the 20th Century whom Congress had named as honorary United States citizens. When the emcee, Adam C. Bonin, offered her name as one of the correct answers, there was some booing and groaning because almost no one had guessed it. Mr. Bonin laughed that this might be the only crowd to boo Mother Teresa, but he was making appropriate light of the unusual circumstance that booing was taking place in conjunction with a mention of Mother Teresa. The crowd was not dissing Mother Teresa herself.

I'm sure that will stop it from becoming part of wingnut mythology like Philadelphians throwing snowballs at Santa Claus (The guy wasn't, you know, the REAL Santa Claus, but a drunken idiot). The problem is that the remark fit this false pattern of "angry bloggers" that the traditional media pushes at every opportunity. And so the vicious and angry blogger meme, the zombie lie, carries ever onward.