Yahoo! News published a story about President Obama’s trip to Africa that they’re probably wishing had been checked by a few more editors:

"The country of his birth"? What is your major malfunction, Yahoo? (http://t.co/dCXW48UQFw via @davidjoachim) pic.twitter.com/HTjZfam6lJ

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 21, 2013

What makes that story (which has now been “corrected”) even funnier is the fact that the author of it once wrote an article critical of “birthers.” Freudian Slip perhaps?

Doesn’t matter though. The social media lynch mob has already been dispatched.