KHQA, a CBS affiliate serving western Illinois has retracted a month-old story about an Obama-Blagojevich meeting:
KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.
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. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.
JammieWearingFool has a screenshot of one of their stories. (Via LGF.)
Now I assume that KHQA is telling the truth (now), because otherwise they are throwing away a great scoop. Also I think Obama is too smart to deny a meeting known to the press. But, why then did they report it in the first place? It would seem that someone was making stuff up.
ASIDE: KHQA calls this a “clarification”. I guess there’s no such thing as a retraction any more, because if there were, this would surely be one. Also, their article didn’t “suggest” that a meeting was scheduled; it openly asserted it.
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