I figure if I give it, I ought to take it. From today’s Hotline:
The Pick
NBC/MSNBC beat Fox by three minutes. Fox beat ABC by three minutes. Yesterday’s Hotline got the scoop on how a Pittsburgh-area airport mechanic posted information about new decals on the Kerry campaign plane on a bulleting board at 9:44pm Monday night. But it was bgibson on the Edwards Campaign Blog that solidified everything with a post at 6:24am: “Kerry is up now in his hotel about to call Gephardt and Vilsack and say I am sorry but I have chosen John Edwards, I have a friend at the Kinkos in downtown Pittsburgh who has been printing bios and campaign materials that he has been packing with pre-printed…. drum roll…KERRY/EDWARDS logos… You all are the first to know, however, according to this source the literature says, “as you now know either from your e-mail from this morning or the news media…, so you will be hearing this in about an hour or so…” Meanwhile, DailyKos pokes fun at the New York Post for their Gephardt-gaffe. Don’t be too hard on them — they probably got their info from ArchPundit. And CampaignDesk tried talking to a political editor at the Post about what really happened.
The Post refuses to explain what happened, and unfortunately so must I. I’m not sure you’d believe me if I told you, but let’s say that living in Saint Louis had nothing to do with how the tip came down.