[SarahW]

Jonathan Last at Galley Slaves dug up the original byline -

"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:

September 3, 2004 Friday 2:12 PM Eastern Time SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

LENGTH: 649 words

HEADLINE: Bill Clinton hospitalized with chest pains, will face bypass surgery

BYLINE: TOM HAYS; Associated Press Writer

DATELINE: NEW YORK"

[garjog]

Boos actually Ooos is sort of like the mis-report that Bush served Thanksgiving Breakfast to the troops in Iraq. The reporter refused to admit he was an idiot at first.

[AmishDude]

That action is worse! They knowingly covered it up.

Thank God for the New Media: Filling up the Memory Hole.