Frank Rich in his column about the GOP meltdown in upstate NY's congressional race:

The same Republicans who once deplored Democrats for refusing to let an anti-abortion dissident, Gov. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, speak at the 1992 Clinton convention now routinely banish any dissenters in their own camp.

Now, that's not a big part of his column, but he links a 1992 NYT opinion piece on the convention without ever noting that it was wrong. Casey was not refused a speaking gig at the convention because of his abortion position, he was refused one because he wouldn't endorse the Democratic nominee. In fact, as Media Matters points out, antiabortion speakers did speak in 1992 and at every democratic convention since (although the link is from 2005), which explains a lot about the backsliding on my rights, but that's another matter.

But it's just so much easier to continue to talk about the fake past as invented by conservatives than either 1) correcting the record; or 2) just leaving it out of the piece. And that's a big part of why we live in the world we live in - Versailles has replaced actual political history with the GOP created history.

Rich, of course, being the good Versailles liberal has a long record of going along with the conservative sliming of big name Dems (see, e.g., here).