WATCHING MICHELLE MALKIN SUB for Bill O’Reilly, I noticed that her guest , Democratic consultant Julie Roginsky, appeared to have gotten her Media Matters talking points confused. When responding to a question about the Edwards blogger fiasco, she quickly parried with a blurted remark about McCain “having an anti-semitic blogger.”

Hmm. I’ve never heard anyone call Patrick Hynes an anti-semite, and it’s an absurd charge based on my knowledge of him. So I googled “Patrick Hynes anti-semite” and found this Media Matters press release calling Bill Donohue an anti-semite, while attacking Patrick Hynes on other grounds. Roginsky probably just confused the two. Call it talking-points crosstalk?

UPDATE: Video here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Clay Waters of TimesWatch emails:

Last Saturday on Fox she also accused Hynes of “inflammatory, racist statements” and cited the NYT as her source in a discussion of Marcotte. I tackled the false charges in the Times story here (insulting Rep. Henry Waxman’s big nose is apparently anti-Semitic, and it wasn’t even Hynes, it was his commenters that the Times called anti-Semitic). If you want, you can try and discern any actual anti-Semitism in the comments in question (which would have nothing to do with Hynes’ “anti-Semitism” anyway).

What reporter John Broder of NY Times said on Feb. 9: “[Hynes] then came under fire for declaring that the United States was a ‘Christian nation’ in a book and television appearances that predated his work for Mr. McCain. Last November, while employed by Mr. McCain’s campaign, Mr. Hynes posted on his personal blog a picture of Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and invited readers to submit nicknames, some of which were anti-Semitic.”

That seems pretty weak. More here.

MORE: Don Surber thinks Fox should give Malkin a show.