Intsapundit has this from another blogger.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Apparently, this story is not by Scott Lindlaw, as earlier reported, but by Tom Hays. Jonathan Last has more on this, and observes:
So the AP: (1) Puts out a story with falsified reporting; (2) Pulls the story; (3) Removes the faulty reporting; (4) Makes no note of its mistake; and then (5) Pulls the byline of the reporter who made the error. If you were going to impute bad faith to the folks at AP--and at this point that's not unreasonable to do--you might suspect that they have pulled Tom Hays's byline to protect him.
Behold the power of Lexis-Nexis. The AP was able to cover their tracks on the web, but Lexis-Nexis keeps all versions of stories which carry different time-stamps. The Hays original is preserved there in its entirety.
He's got it. He also observes: "This is a fine time for Romenesko to be on vacation. Let's hope he digs into this story on Tuesday. Paging Howie Kurtz . . . "
MORE: Still more here.
posted at 09:09 PM by Glenn Reynolds
Thank you!!
AP reporter ID'ed......behold the power of Lexis-Nexis......AP forgot to scrub Lexis-Nexis.....hahahaha!!!
Prairie
Re Tom Hays. Whenever, I see/read one of these outrageous lies by a reporter, I run a Yahoo search on him/her/it with gay as part of the search. Many of the outrageous stories like this one have been written by gay activists pretending to journalists.
Tom Hays is apparently a long time gay activist reporter for the AP.
Here was an interesting find in the yahoo search: Stachelberg said one of the speakers at the press conference would be Tom Hays, the surviving domestic partner of American Airlines co-pilot David Charlebois, who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He was aboard the airplane that terrorists crashed into the Pentagon.
The search showed a lot of articles re gay agendas going back to the Don't ask nor tell policy coverage.