Here we are more than two weeks after the election and our friends at PUMA are still spewing the same old tired lies. I'll be posting a top-10 PUMA lies list shortly, but frankly it is hard to narrow it down to just 10. Maybe I'll have to do an AFI type of thing and make the list 100.

Anyway, let's look at one of the "leaders" of the PUMA movement, Riverdaughter. On her blog today, she relates the story of having dinner last night with a colleague and having politics brought up. Of course, she couldn't resist going into a litany of PUMA lies regarding the primaries. Regarding her dinner companion, she said...

He thought it was perfectly OK for Obama to take all of Michigan’s uncommitted delegates and 4 from Hillary to boot, even though it was specifically the theft of Michigan delegates that put him over the top by a mere 17 delegates.

Wow. One of the top dogs in the PUMA movement and she can get something this basic so wrong! Why am I not surprised. All of the PUMA outrage is based on false slights, made-up controversy, pretend corruption, and faux conspiracies.

Riverdaughter isn't picking this figure of 17 out of thin air. It comes from the green paper's accounting of the DNC accounting of delegates. But what she completely misconstrues is the fact that Hillary was behind by only 17 delegates if, and only if, Obama was given zero pledged delegates from the Michigan primary. Hillary wasn't behind 17 after Obama was given delegates out of the "uncommitted" pile. She was behind many more.

Only in the most unfair of situations, where Michigan gives absolutely zero delegates to Obama (not to mention that Florida and Michigan are applied at full strength) does Hillary even close the gap to 17. And while that may be close, it still means she lost! This fact is either lost on PUMAs, conveniently ignored, or willfully twisted. Take your pick.

Here is the Green Papers listing of the Michigan delegates. You can clearly see that Hillary is given 73 pledged delegates, Obama receives zero, and "Uncommitted" receives 84 which is the combination of pledged delegates for "uncommitted" plus super delegates. Again, in this accounting, Obama received no delegates. And this total was used for the national total shown here that lists Hillary behind by "only" 17 delegates.

For Riverdaughter to not be able to grasp this simple math shows why she might have difficulty keeping up in a dinner conversation with her math-whiz colleague from Canada.