HOW TO REACT UNDER PRESSURE: LEFTY LESSON THREE

Muddy the water. Taking flak for claiming to have the "best read political blog" in Australia, Mark Bahnisch throws in a distracter:

I’m aware of what you think about it, flutey, and you might like to note that I didn’t write the original story that contained that claim. I didn’t even see it until the day after it was published, and that’s why I wrote and asked for a correction, as Tim Blair is well aware.

Well duh, the Crikey story was written by Margaret Simons. Either Simons correctly reported that someone at LP made the popularity supremacy claim or she simply made it up. So Mr Bahnisch, which is it?