The Sun-Times reported yesterday that Attorney General Lisa Madigan is investigating a grant then-State Sen. Barack Obama issued in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer. The $100,000 appropriation was intended to fund a botanic garden in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, but was never built. On Fox News' Special Report last night, host Brit Hume highlighted the news during the "Grapevine" segment of the program. Media Matters provides the transcript and video:
But Hume conveniently omitted a crucial component of this story. Indeed, despite Rich Miller's warning when the Sun-Times article first surfaced, Hume didn't "scroll down for the buried nugget":
Madigan’s office has notified Obama’s presidential campaign of the probe, which was launched this week. But Obama’s actions in awarding the money are not a focus of the investigation, Smith said. [emphasis added]
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