The New York Post, Rupert Murdhoch’s loosely-bound concoction of toilet paper and ink, ran a hit piece on impending House legislation regarding the Democrat’s benchmark/withdrawal proposals.  Leading with a quote from Dana Perino describing the bill as a “death sentence for millions of Iraqi’s”, the article is a shrill piece of reporting absolutely befitting of the country’s most irrational tabloids.  In fact, normally I would no more bother to mention it than I would point out that water runs downhill - except for the fact that the article’s byline is credited to David Espo of the Associated Press.

Which would be disgusting.  If it were true. 

Fact is, Espo never wrote the thing.  The AP denies outright that anything like that went out on their wires.  Likewise, Espo himself told The Horse’s Mouth that he "didn't write anything remotely like that. My name was on the story and I didn't write it anything like the way it was printed." 

As AmericaBlog points out, this doesn’t exactly qualify as plagiarism.  In fact, I don’t even know if there is a specific category for something so heinous.  Defamation of character?  Fraud, perhaps?  Or simply just another clip for the ‘Murdoch is a wanker’ slushpile.