My co-blogger Charles over at my home blog Mercury Rising has been following the Honduras coup in detail, as has Al Giordano over at The Field, doing what the US corporate media won’t.

The latest twist: The right-wing pro-coup forces are trying to paint legitimate President Manuel Zelaya as — wait for it — an anti-Semite. Except that the anti-Semitic statements being used to paint him as such didn’t come from his mouth, but from somebody else’s mouth: Namely, that of David Romero of Radio Globo. (Giordano and his readers also take the AP’s Frances Robles to task for putting words in Zelaya’s mouth, claiming without evidence that Zelaya — who as Giordano notes has been a staunch defender of Jewish persons, and in fact filled several key government posts with Jewish Hondurans — was blaming Israeli forces for the use of the sonic weapons being trained on the Brazilian Embassy.)

Why is this such a big deal? Because the coupistas got both the right-wing-favoring ADL and the nominally-lefty Huffington Post to fall for it. Shades of what happened to Hugo Chavez, eh?