I'm up ungodly early for a Thursday morning to come into the office to write a motion, but...
It was kind of worth it when I picked up this morning's Washington Post and saw a vaugely familiar picture I'd seen before...because it was a screen capture of Kos' front page diary on Kaloogian.
Yet again, the mainstream media is playing catch-up to the blogs, and I love it. Our modern investigative journalists are here in cyberspace,
and Dana Milbank is left grabbing at the scraps:
Howard Kaloogian, vying for the Republican nomination in the race to succeed felonious former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), just returned from a trip to Baghdad and posted on his Web site a photo showing a busy urban street scene, which he said proved that Baghdad is "much more calm and stable" than people think.
But something didn't look right to readers of the liberal Web site Daily Kos, who noted that women in the photo were wearing Western clothing, a couple was holding hands, and signs are in the Roman alphabet.
Soon after this discovery yesterday, the photo disappeared from the Kaloogian Web site and was replaced by a notice: "We originally posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey, where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We apologize for this mistake."
The photo was replaced by a long-distance shot of a Baghdad street empty of pedestrians. Late yesterday the whole display disappeared.
As Kos pointed out, the story was also picked up by Newsweek and the New York Times.
Oh the sweet irony. Only a week after forcing the Post to fire blog/plagiarist Ben Domenech, the Post is sucking wind again in the wake of a DKos scoop special. While they are playing smoochy-smoochy with Dick Cheney and gang at the annual Correspondents' Dinner, we're out here carrying the load for them.
I hope the editors at the Post are having fits about how they've been had by Daily Kos...again.