Upcoming John Locke Foundation Headliner Timothy P. Carney devotes his latest Washington Examiner article to dissecting misstatements from top Obama political adviser David Axelrod:

I really try to avoid accusing people of lying, because one precondition of a lie is that the speaker knows what he is saying to be false. We simply can’t know what another person’s state of mind is. Often, comments come across as lies that are really misperceptions or ambiguous statements.

But what Axelrod said about the revolving door on CNN yesterday (highlighted in this Charlie Spiering blog post headlined “Tim Carney’s Head Just Exploded”) is not just demonstrably false, but it’s hard to imagine an intelligent human being in Obama’s inner circle not grasping how truly false and misleading it is. …

“The President has imposed on himself a ban on taking contributions from lobbyists.” No the President has not done this. He still takes contributions from lobbyists. He still has lobbyists raising money for him.

A few examples:

Lawrence Rasky and Joseph Baerlein, Chairman and President of the lobbying firm Rasky Baerlein, are Obama donors. Google public affairs manager Ginny Hunt and Blue Shield public policy VP Tom Epstein are Obama donors. Obama donors Mark Boatwright, James O’Neill and Soyla Fernandez list themselves on Obama’s FEC filings as “lobbyists.” There are plenty more. What Obama has done is tried to exclude registered federal lobbyists from donating. Of course, lobbyist registration is basically unenforced on the federal level, so that’s a cosmetic rule.

“The president has ended the revolving door between industry and government….” No, he hasn’t, and Axelrod knows this. Does Axelrod wonder where White House budget chief Peter Orszag has gone? Does he have to ask around to get the whereabouts of former White House counsel Greg Craig? Is he the only person in political Washington who doesn’t know that these White House alumni went to work for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, respectively? …

“He doesn’t, uh, hire lobbyists.” The most accurate description for this Axelrod statement — a colloquial term for the manure of a male cow — is not fit for a family-friendly blog.