IN THE TANK? OR DRIVING THE TANK? Michael Graham notes that the Boston Globe continues to peddle the Sarah Palin rape-kit myth, despite the fact that it’s been debunked and re-debunked. Graham comments:

The story is old news in the new media. Left-leaning Slate.com called it “a nasty and untrue rumor.” National Review’s Jim Geraghty, who has written exhaustively on the story calls it “unsupported by the facts.” But at the Obama-Uber-Alles Boston Globe, they call it “news.”

We have come to the point in the media’s treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin where even the fig leaf of pretense is gone. The press has openly chosen sides and has stopped apologizing for it.

Yes. My thoughts on what to do are here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Kay Hymowitz emails:

Thought you might be interested to hear that Jon Stewart repeated the rape kit story last night on The Daily Show. It’s pretty bad when the Boston Globe spreads untruths, but remember no one trusts them – or reads them – anyway. But when the Daily Show repeats the story, that’s another matter. Now the country’s entire population of under 30 year olds KNOWS it’s true.

Well, yeah. And Stewart should apologize for repeating an obvious falsehood. But how embarrassing is it for the Globe that it’s being outranked by Jon Stewart?