Rumsfeld news a comedy coup

This is one of the funniest stories in ages. While cautious of a web-wind-up, the Comedy Central blog seems to have broken the story of US Secetary of Defense Rumsfeld resigning a whole eleven hours before the event, and, it seems, hours before the 'mainstream' media got hold of it.

This is truly embarrassing for the US media. Why does a comedy channel break a large news story like this? The conspiracy types would probably use this to illustrate their line that the US media is in the hands of the Republican party, who would want to break this story on their terms. I admit that most of my recent understanding of US political affairs comes from the Daily Show... all right, maybe not, but I do watch more of that than Fox or CNN these days.

One in the bag for blogging, and for fake news outlets everywhere. UK satire programmes take note...