[CedarDave]

KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place.

In addition to the cited scheduled meeting on November 5, a story posted on the net on Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m. confirms the meeting:

QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it. Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement. There’s already been speculation about his selection...from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Junior to Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth.

[SMOKING GUN]: Director of Illinois Dept. of Veterans' Affairs visits Quincy(Obama - Blago meeting)

This link and article have also been removed. The media again covering for Obama.

[Cooter]

[El Gato]

Now I know these folks are so deep into the tank for Obama they can't even tell day from night, but this is getting insulting . This being their apparent assumption that we are all brain dead and won't see through the "mistaken story", and "misspeaking" spin.

I may have been born in November, but it wasn't this November, and while I probably fell off the turnip truck, it was back in the 1940s, not recently.

[the invisib1e hand]

Are you kidding me? All of a sudden everyone’s looking like children caught stealing.

[vidbizz]

I can’t believe this!!
They decide 1 month, 5 days later that....um..um the meeting may not have taken place?

Where am I? Russia? China?

[StAnDeliver]

"The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place."

Despicable liars. KHQA should be denied their next FCC license renewal. They reported it straight up that evening, Nov. 5, 2008, on their News At Five. And guess who KHQA reported as first in line for the Senate seat? Senate Candidate 5! Here's the verbatim transcript, you KHQA bastards. Try and deny your own words:

KHQA News At Five
Nov. 5, 2008 | 5-5:30p.m.:

"Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the US Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled. Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich today in Chicago to discuss it. Ilinois law states that the Governor chooses that replacement. There's already been speculation about his selection, from Congressman Jesse Jackson, junior of Chicago's South Side who co-chaired Obama's presidential campaign, to recently-retired State Senate President Emil Jones, to the Governor himself. The Governor expects to make his decision before Christmas. Part of the timing depends on when Obama officially vacates his Senate seat. Barack Obama has chosen Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel to be his White House chief of staff -- his first selection for the new Administration."