It’s here at Pajamas Media, whose peeps did marvelous work getting this to the front page so quickly:

McCain Didn’t Vet Palin’ Meme Has Serious Holes
Slippery prose and outright errors in the NY Times and HuffPost.

Too good to check, I guess.

HuffPo reporter Sam Stein especially has some additional reporting, and almost definitely some explaining, to do.

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UPDATE, Sept. 3: I have just confirmed with Greg Johnson, Managing Editor of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, that the paper’s archives have been online “for years,” and that they have been easily accessible.

Since the PJM piece was written in the wee hours of the morning on Sept. 2, that could not be confirmed, and the article was written with qualifiers that archive accesibility may have somehow begun between the time of Sam Stein HuffPo column and mine. As expected, that’s not the case.

Sam Stein’s column therefore contains clear falsehoods that an organization with integrity would retract.

….. Stephanie Tubbs Jones.

It’s here.

Its subheadline is, “The Bush years have been better for Americans’ wallets than most critics admit.”

It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Saturday morning (link won’t work until then) under the same title (yeah, I finally gave ‘em one they liked).

It’s here, with a good tease question:

Are there really 3 million Americans wandering the streets?

As you might guess, it’s not even close.

I will post the column here at BizzyBlog Saturday morning (link won’t work until then) under the title “SF Report Unmasks Overhyped Nationwide Homeless Numbers.”

Yours truly was interviewed earlier this week by Ed Driscoll of EdDriscoll.com and Pajamas Media for its latest PJM Political podcast. The topic was the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy.

That interview is the final segment of the PJM podcast that can be found here. The segment isn’t mentioned in the intro by Steve Green of VodkaPundit, but it’s there at about the 46-minute mark.

The program was broadcast yesterday on XM Satellite Radio, specifically XM Channel #130, POTUS ‘08 (thanks to Ben Keeler for asking). I’ll have to get news about future interviews up a bit more timely.

It’s here.

It will appear at BizzyBlog on Sunday afternoon (link won’t work until then) under the title, “Obama’s Taxes: The $2 Trillion ‘1970s Show’ Mirage.”

It’s here.

It will go up at BizzyBlog on Monday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.

It’s here.

They did a nice job on the tease, too — “Believe it or not, some people out there actually believe that soaring gas prices are a blessing. Time for them to ‘fill up’ on common sense.”

I will post the column here at BizzyBlog Saturday afternoon (link won’t work until then) under the title “$8 Gas a Good Thing? I Don’t Think So” after the blackout expires.

What is it with WorldNetDaily’s Aaron Klein (And His WND Bosses)?

Debbie Schlussel reports that Klein has again lifted her work “almost word-for-word,” and presented it as an “exclusive,” which in WNDLand appears to mean, in essence, “anything we haven’t reported on before.” I’ll let readers decide whether it’s worth fishing around WND to find what I’m referring to; I’m in no mood to link.

This follows Klein performing similar tricks on yours truly back in March (BlumerNetDaily - Part 1; Part 2). Then Klein made it appear as if WND was solely responsible for the Barack Obama campaign’s quiet repudiation (also first noted at BizzyBlog) of sentiments expressed in a Hamas leader’s column printed in the Trinity United Church of Christ’s church bulletin — three days after yours truly first broke the news, and well after Michelle Malkin and Charles at Little Green Footballs referred to my post (with proper attribution in each instance).

As what I see as link-hogging, credit-grabbing, and material-lifting at WND apparently continues unabated, I’ll just have to repeat my opinion expressed in March:

All of this is very pathetic. There was a time in the late 1990s when it appeared that WND might become one of the leading lights of New Media. Instead, in its current construction, WND is a sad monument to lost potential.

Update: So WND gets all the link benefit of Taranto’s coverage yesterday at Best of the Web, based on work originally done by Debbie Schlussel. Mission accomplished, eh Aaron?

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Let’s see how much coverage, especial on TV, this story receives:

US Marine acquitted of all charges in Haditha killings

A court martial on Wednesday acquitted a US Marine for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005, the sixth man to be exonerated in the affair, a military official said.
Lieutenant Andrew Grayson, 27, was declared “not guilty on all charges” by a jury, said a spokesman for the Camp Pendleton military base in southern California where the hearing started on May 28.

Grayson had been charged with making false statements and attempting to fraudulently separate from the Marine Corps. He was also charged with obstruction of justice, but the military judge dismissed this charge Tuesday.

He was the first Marine to stand trial in connection with the killings of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, the most serious war crime allegations leveled at US forces since the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

Is Jack Murtha, the congressman who, as Michelle Malkin noted two years ago, opted for “verdict first, trial later” on national TV, available for comment yet? Better yet, should he not be censured, or worse, by Congress?

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ADP’s National Employment Report on Wednesday said that 40,000 seasonally adjusted nonfarm private jobs were added in May, and revised its April figure of +10,000 to +13,000.

This may be a harbinger of a positive jobs number in the government’s Employment Situation report tomorrow, as well as upward revisions to prior months (crossing fingers). The government came in with a -20,000 change in seasonally adjusted jobs in April, which was 30,000 below ADP’s original figure. A repeat of that 30,000-job gap tomorrow would bring the government’s May number into positive territory.

I hope to have more to say on the ADP report, which may deserve more respect than it has been getting, later today.

It’s here.

Their home-page tease is pretty good too — “America’s presidential hopefuls are pushing government-heavy approaches to climate change — just as the rest of the world is rebelling against them.”

I will post the column here at BizzyBlog Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) under the title “Governments Find It’s Not Easy Being ‘Green’ While Trying to Fleece Citizens” after the blackout expires.

Follow-up thought: It’s interesting how the “we ought to follow world opinion” crowd, and their media water-carriers in the US, are stone silent on “the world’s” rejection of draconian taxes and living-standard reductions to fight “global warming.” Maybe it’s because the “rest of the world” has figured out that it’s all a bunch of globaloney.

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UPDATE: Today’s edition of the CCNet daily e-mail I referred to in the PJM column has these three stories leading it, each from the UK (links added by me) –

(1) GREEN TAXES ON THE ROPES AS PUBLIC BACKLASH GROWS — Local Transport Today, 30 May 2008

The Government was struggling to maintain its green taxation agenda on transport this week amid truckers’ fuel protests, a media onslaught and a revolt by its own backbenchers. Ministers, already alarmed at Labour’s plummeting poll ratings and stung by this month’s byelection defeat in Crewe and Nantwich, this week insisted that they were in listening mode to the protestors, which suggests they may be prepared to abandon policies that are central to their attempts to reduce transport’s carbon dioxide emissions.

(2) BROWN HIT BY WORST PARTY RATING EVER — Jeremy Lovell, Reuters, 30 May 2008

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s ruling Labour Party has registered its worst opinion poll showing since surveys began in 1943, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Friday. It said the YouGov poll showed Labour on 23 percent against 47 percent for the opposition Conservatives, underlining voter concerns about a slowing economy, rising fuel and food prices and a botched tax reform that have battered Brown’s popularity.

(3) GAS BILLS SET TO CRASH THROUGH THE £1,000 BARRIER — Gerri Peev, The Scotsman, 29 May 2008

Householders have been warned to brace themselves for “catastrophic” rises that could take their gas bills to £1,000 a year, after prices nudged to a record high yesterday. The average bill is set to soar by nearly £400 as energy companies prepare to pass on the costs of wholesale gas prices, which have surged. This would take the average gas bill from £665 to £1,091, the first time it has been more than £1,000. This is double what it was in January last year and treble the average bill just six years ago.

How is this not news in the US? If this were happening to Tony Blair over opposition to British military involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’d be reading about it daily.

UPDATE 2: In light of the previous update, isn’t it “amazing” that the New York Times’s coverage of Labor’s Crewe and Nantwich losses last week says absolutely nothing about unpopular “green” taxes on older vehicles or the truckers’ protest? In fact, you’ll see a bit of blame-shifting to the US (not kidding) for Gordon Brown’s troubles.

Hannity.com has linked to the first of my three posts on the Trumpet Newsmagazine covers and content (see box with rotating items on the left side at Sean Hannity’s site; the other two BizzyBlog posts are here and here):

Trumpet is the mostly-monthly magazine published by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s 20-year pastor and “sounding board” Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s South Side.

Stanley Kurtz of the Weekly Standard is the person who did the original detailed work to reveal the radical, controversial nature of what has been in Trumpet since it transitioned from being an in-house organ of the TUCC to a magazine available to the general public. The covers of the pre-transition Trumpets indicate that the radicalism was present well before the move to public availability.

Barack Obama has been on Trumpet’s cover at least three times, once by himself (first and third images are clickable, and will open in a separate window):

Louis Farrakhan has also been on the cover at least three times, twice by himself (all graphics are clickable; each will open in a separate window), and once in a montage that included Wright and Obama:

Jesse Jackson and Al “Close This City” Sharpton have also appeared (all graphics are clickable; each will open in a separate window):

Kurtz’s core and inescapable conclusion (at very end):

There can be no mistaking it. What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it? Everything. Always.

The three previous detailed posts are these:
- May 14 — Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine: Cover Pic ‘Highlights’ (Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, Others)
- May 14 — As Media Ogles, Stanley Kurtz Trumpets the Obviously Deep Obama-Wright Connections
- May 12 — Attention Stanley Kurtz Re Obama, Wright, Trumpet: I’ve Got You Covered

It’s here.

I’ll post it at BizzyBlog on Saturday after the blackout expires.

We are on. Go to Weapons of Mass Discussion’s home page for the “listen live” link. Click on the banner in the right sidebar.

Topics:

• Gunga Dann — Will the Dems actually carry through with impeachment?
• The 57 states of the presidential candidate I refer to a BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters).
• Barack Obama’s people are trying to pretend that he never said that he will meet Ahmedinejad unconditionally, while it’s right there on his web site, right now.
• Hamas favors Obama for Prez. Of course it’s John McCain’s fault for pointing this out when an interviewer asks him about it.
• Economy not in recession.
• Obama doesn’t know much about history.
• The Barack Obama lapel pin.
• Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, grandmoms, and wives.

It’s here.

It will be posted at BizzyBlog on Saturday morning (link won’t work until then) under the title “The Economy Is Improving, While Old Media Remains Mired in ‘Recession’ Talk.”

Longtime readers here will recognize one of the column’s targets: Rex (”You can have a recession while the economy is growing”) Nutting (link is to a BizzyBlog site search on Nutting’s name).

From the Columbus Dispatch Link (HT Writes Like She Talks via NixGuy):

But in an e-mail sent at 11:43 a.m. to staffers in the attorney general’s office, Dann said he will not resign.

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Note: For those who think (OK, know) they can do better, the original images are here (Dann) and here (Gunga Din; scroll down at link; HT Pho).

The topic is Dann, as you would expect. TIB’s listening link is here at Weapons of Mass Discussion, about halfway down on the right.

Links:
- Enquirer says he must resign.
- April 22 — WoMD rips Youngstown Vindy as that paper’s Todd Franko, incredibly, criticizes Republicans for previously having gone after Dann for other things.
- Economic doom-mongering.
- Obama’s radical Weatherpeople friends.
- Chicago’s crime rate is way up.
- Obama supported gas tax holidays in Illinois before he was against a federal gas-tax holiday.

It’s here.

I will post it Saturday afternoon at BizzyBlog under the title “Positive GDP Report Won’t Stop Media or Pols from Crying ‘Recession.’”

It’s here, with this overview:

Barack Obama has denied hearing hateful rhetoric from his pastor of 20 years. An ongoing PJM investigation finds that there is much evidence indicating that the junior senator from Illinois is not being entirely truthful.

It runs down the story of Jeremiah Wright, the Trinity United Church of Christ, and the 20-year Wright-TUCC-Obama relationship, from the March 13 ABC story that first brought it to national attention up to, but NOT including, the Rev. Wright’s current “press offensive.”

The “press offensive” became visible just recently, but it seems to have been planned for some time.

Its first element is a Bill Moyers Journal interview of Wright that will air on PBS sometime today or tonight; a transcript and video will probably be posted somewhere at some point. PBS’s tease for the interview is here.

Other elements of Wright’s “press offensive” that I know of include an NAACP-Detroit speech on Sunday, and another speech on Monday at the National Press Club.

Contrary to ordinary custom, because it is part of PJM’s ongoing investigation, I will NOT be posting the column at BizzyBlog.