According to the lawsuits, in March of 2007, Kazeminy said that "U.S. Senators don't make s---" and he was going to try to find a way to get money to Coleman.

"On the one level it could just be a coincidence, on the other level this could be one of the reasons he's getting that money from elsewhere, to try to make up for his, to be able to pay off a loan, pay off a line of credit," says Schultz.

Records provided by the campaign show that Coleman paid Wilsey in full for the renovation -- $414,000. In part, by refinancing his home in March 2007, for $775,000.

The Senator acknowledges, that like a lot of people in America, he now owes more on his home than it's actually worth.

Oops. Well when the FBI gets done giving him a colonoscopy, I think he can look forward to a second from the IRS, assuming he isn't getting the same treatment at Club Fed.

MyFox Twin Cities | Exclusive: Coleman's Renovation Project Coincides with Lawsuit

Then eagle-eyed Tom Brokaw demonstrated the way a hard-nosed reporter goes after a cover-up. On Meet the Press last weekend, Brokaw picked up on what he thought was wiggle room in Obama's Barbara Walters response and treated the president-elect to a bit of journalistic inquiry that surely ranks with Woodward and Bernstein's challenges to Deep Throat (another smoker?).

Yep, way to keep your eye on the ball Tom.

Let Obama smoke cigarettes in the White House. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine

“My problem is that I have to write with a certain kind of reader in mind, and that person is always going to be my vision of an intelligent Canadian,” Ms. Mallick said. “I don’t write for Fox viewers.”

In his report, Mr. Carlin said that after the column had been mentioned in at least three Fox News broadcasts, his office and Ms. Mallick had “received an alarming number of truly vicious and vituperative messages.”

Gee, who would have figured a bunch of Fox viewers would be "truly vicious and vituperative"? Oh, everyone?

Note to Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch: Ernst Rohm called, he wants his propaganda department back.

Boss Is Not Amused After Columnist’s Humor Brings a Retort From Fox News - NYTimes.com

The story of Franci Havemeister, for instance, turned out to be much more instructive than what appeared in the paper. Not only did she love cows as a child, she married into a farming family that depended on a state-owned dairy for its livelihood — a dairy that was one of the responsibilities of her new office. Before her appointment, the board that oversaw the money-losing dairy recommended closing it. Palin fired the board and appointed a new one, including Havemeister, a childhood friend. Havemeister then applied to be agriculture director. Shortly after she took office, the dairy’s losses accelerated — $300,000 in July of last year alone — and it was finally closed.

Worth the read. Sunday the 14th's front page piece on Palin came off to many as a hit job. The full story was actually far worse.

The Public Editor - Make It Airtight - NYTimes.com

Getting these guys together has been an absolute riot. More!

Brian Williams | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles

And the media gets had. Again.

In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

It's no longer simply a style concern for porn stars; it seems that everyone now – guy or gal – is giving at least some thought to pubic hair care.

Yep, fair and balanced. Reasons for and against pubic hair. Welcome to Fox Porn, I mean News. I mean...

FOXNews.com - FOXSexpert: The Ins and Outs of All-Over Shaving - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

In this chilling BBC clip, a newsteam ventures to one of LA's new shantytowns made up of people who've lost their homes in the subprime meltdown and now live in tents, improvised shacks or RVs on abandoned land. It's the contemporary Hooverville...

Nearly 80 years later and we're moving right back to the same disaster we were looking at then. There are differences. We don't yet have the midwestern drought that destroyed agriculture for years, we have a southern one where Atlanta is in danger of turning into Las Vegas, and may get that midwestern one, but no one is sure. We don't have brokers jumping from the ledges is New York, many of those buildings were torn down and replaced with buildings that don't have ledges, or windows that open. We don't have 25% unemployment, we don't know what it actually is because the "new unemployment" doesn't count people who, after months of trying, gave up searching for work.

When the BBC is showing us the new Hoovervilles but our own media isn't. When they're also talking about the possibility that we're looking at 1929, but our media isn't. When CNNI is showing the real on the ground cost of the Iraq war across the world, but not here. Our government and our media is giving us a bill of goods.

America's new subprime shanty-towns - Boing Boing

Apparently that meant repeating the falsehood with added detail: the "fact" that I had been on a conference call the previous day with the Hillary high command. Again, false. My worry is that if this is what one of Fox's best and most respected reporters is doing, what are the hacks up to?

Way to go FOX News! Keep hitting that story and maybe it'll be true! Sort of like the surge is working (if at best a 50/50 shot is working) or Alberto Gonzales is great (at what? Canasta?).

(Sorry about actually linking to those idiots with the Gonzo bit, but lets get real, when Arlen Spector [R-PA] said Gonzo was "no doubt, bad for the Justice Department." ON FOX, that pretty much cashed the deal in.)

Paul Begala: Fox News: We Report -- Even if We Know It's False - Media on The Huffington Post

The editor explains that her decision to not use the girl's essay was an editorial judgment call. Gerry Avant says, “I was looking for something by LDS because by tradition our contributors have been LDS.” She apologizes for the miscommunication and goes on to say, “I have spent 35 years of trying to portray people in the best light the best possible way and certainly would not have gone intentionally to cause offense.”

Well way to promote Mormonism then! Slam the door on a 12 year old girl who wrote the essay you wanted to use, but won't because she's not a Mormon. I'd always thought eliminating one letter to turn a Mormon into a moron was fun with spelling, not a demonstration of reality.

Newspaper claims mix-up is to blame for rejection of non-LDS girl's essay - ABC4.com