Just yesterday he was defending his decision not to delete the post.

Via The Hill:

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) removed a Facebook post Monday that alleged a House GOP leader told President Obama “I cannot even stand to look at you” at a private meeting.

Durbin said he did not immediately take down the post after it was proven false last week because he wanted to leave it in the proper context.

“If I’d have raced to take it off, [the media] would have done that story too: `Durbin races to take this off.’ I wanted to put into context how I got into this situation,” he told the Associated Press.

After Durbin posted the comment earlier this month, GOP House leaders and the White House both denied the incident. Durbin, who was not at the meeting, heard the story second-hand from a White House staffer.