PressEthic

Comedy Central's Indecider blog may be the first media entity to break the Donald Rumsfeld departure.

According to a blog published at 12:15 a.m. this morning:

Our Token Conservative, Michael Brendan Dougherty...

The buzz I'm hearing from a friend, and a totally unconfirmed White House source (remember Comedy Central doesn't have journalistic standards), is that Rumsfeld will be out of the administration tomorrow.

This is a shocker even to the totally unnamed source in the White House. Already, we are seeing reports of a White House Press conference scheduled for tomorrow at 1 p.m. Could this be it?

Should you trust me? Well, earlier I broke the news (from a reliable mother) that Sue Kelly would lose in the New York 19th. And now even True Republican believer K-Lo at National Reviews's The Corner, is saying that Sue Kelly is a loser.

Suck it, Drudge!

Dougherty took major risks to publish an uncomfirmed story from an unnamed source (no journalistic standards, indeed). But the desire to beat Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report and the bragging rights alone motivated him to do it. It's interesting that he tries to get the reader to believe him by posting his previous news breaks.

Regardless, I can't find an earlier story in the archives, even from the AP. They are not getting much credit elsewhere, so I'll raise my voting ballot to the Indecider here for a job well done.