The private fundraiser where Obama made his remarks was in San Francisco, not Los Angeles.
I know because I asked to attend the event and was denied. On the not unreasonable grounds that it was private, off-the-record, and closed to the press.
I’m considered a member of the press by the campaigns, and have carried press credentials for over a decade.
Somehow, someone attached to the Huffington Post, ironically an Obama supporter who blogs about the campaign, got into the fundraiser, recorded it — the audio quality is terrible and it obviously a microphone in front of Obama — and had it put up on HuffPo Friday.
My friend Steve Schmidt of the McCain campaign got hold of it and issued marching orders for the outrage to echo forth.
A fascinating situation.
