This story is amazing, and it happened right here in Houston:

Patterico and Lone Star Times capture yet another banner moment from a town-hall forum hosted by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) . In this clip, Roxana Mayer introduces herself as a doctor (a general practitioner for four years) in order to support ObamaCare and Jackson-Lee in a fairly hostile crowd. For her efforts, she gets a big hug from the Congresswoman, an image which the Houston Chronicle featured prominently on their website coverage of the event.

But was Mayer really a doctor?

Not only was Mayernot a doctor, Roxana Mayer was an Obama delegate, as Patterico discovered with some digging. What’s more, the Houston Chronicle apparently knew this and failed to include it in its glowing coverage of Mayer’s appearance. The reporter, Cindy Horswell, has admitted that she knew Mayer was an Obama delegate and that Mayer didn’t live in Jackson-Lee’s district when she wrote the Chronicle story. After getting exposed, the Chronicle quietly changed the caption on the photo without issuing a correction, removing the reference to Mayer being a doctor.

As the first comment explains, that the moron cultist lied isn’t really the story (although the Chron should have reported that rather than just airbrushing the old photo caption), the real story is who put her up to it?

My gut says that no one did – this seems like exactly the kind of thing that a mindless O-bot would just do on her own in reaction to all of the negative town hall press that’s been coming out lately – but again, a real journalist would at least make sure of that fact. Not the Chronicle, apparently.

I really wish I had a head-shaking emoticon on this blog…

UPDATE – I’ve been busy and didn’t even get around to blogging this. As of two weeks ago I no longer live in Queen Sheila’s district and am now in (gasp!) Tom DeLay’s old district in Fort Bend County (Pete Olson holla!) But that doesn’t change the fact that she’s still an embarrassment to the great city of Houston.

UPDATE 2: Looky here. (although I think the nose-holding  is evident even through the interwebs)