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They can't get away with this stuff anymore

In a way, they did get away with it. Sure, FReepers are complaining about it. I've seen no mea culpa from the AP. I've seen no mainstream coverage of this outright distortion of fact. We won't see it. At best, the AP will issue a wire retraction/update of the story (to which Drudge has alluded). No mainstream paper is obliged to carry such a retraction, nor will one, IMHO. The people who've already been influenced by this story will not have their ill-gotten influence corrected. It's AP SOP, FWIW. :)