Will Putz Self-Correct?

Putz asks:

POLITICAL COVER FOR PELOSI from the Associated Press?

The answer, as Greg Sargent shows, is a resounding "no." In fact, it's the opposite; the story's bogus.

You might note a pattern here. If you recall, the GOP blasted Pelosi for allegedly requesting a bigger plane and the big news orgs gleefully played along. Then when Pelosi's people said that the House Sergeant-at-Arms had requested the plane, and not Pelosi, the big news orgs that had flacked the story buried that inconvenient piece of info. A similar dynamic played out with the bogus Syria tale, too.

And now again with this Port story. How the hell do we make the hackery stop?

You can't. Or, as Atrios might say, "This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions."