Man, are we embarrassed. We have no excuse and can only hope that you accept our apology. In a previous Wonkette post about a b-list columnist’s take on the important issue of our time, we incorrectly referred to health care reform as, in part, a “moral” issue, for everyone. Had we done our research, we would have known that every expert and scientist had quashed this argument years ago. We thank the very thorough Politico for bringing this fact to light: “And this week, [Barack Obama] returned to an argument Democratic strategists said shouldn’t be part of the pitch this year — trying to convince Americans they have a ‘moral obligation’ to help people without insurance, a discredited argument from the reform effort under President Bill Clinton.” There are so many real, important arguments in this reform effort — would the House plan mandate euthanasia for old people, would Stephen Hawking have to leave America to escape the brownshirts, etc. — that we shouldn’t be wasting any of our time reiterating the previously discredited ones. [Daily Dish]

L.A. TIMES TEEVEE LISTINGS COPY EDITOR TO BE ‘WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD’ EVERY NIGHT FOR THE NEXT YEAR: A correction from the print edition of today’s Los Angeles Times: “FOR THE RECORD: TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s ‘Jackass’ show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s ‘Countdown With Keith Olbermann’ should have been listed.” THIS ES OUTRAGE! [LA Times]

Poor Joe Biden has spent his entire term as vice president being privately rebuked and publicly corrected by his boss. Every time Biden gives an interview, Obama comes out a couple days later and says, “I stand behind everything Joe said, except just to clarify, he meant the opposite,” and Biden has to sit in the Naughty Circle for ten minutes. MORE »

There are many terrible jobs to be had at the Democratic National Convention: the trash Nazis who patrol the garbage cans making sure recyclables don’t get tossed into the forbidden “landfill” bin; the elevator operators trapped in plywood-lined boxes eight hours a day pushing buttons for angry media people; and the pitiable youngsters stuck managing the byzantine and comically nonsensical credentials process. But today we have discovered one even more thankless job: the PR flack who has to write to bloggers on satirical Web sites and explain to them how they have gotten the “facts” wrong. Tragic email after the jump. MORE »

Whatever detente Wonkette may have had with the dinguses at the Washington Times is over after this little display on Sunday. The Times clumsily opened its commentary doors to a Paultard who — in strict accordance to the Paultard ethos — complains about everything with which he doesn’t agree. He lists Wonkette among those detractors who “have it exactly backward,” and claims that we use a certain insensitive word to describe them — but not Paultards. No, this word is far, far more mature and less offensive to the human condition. We’re pissed. MORE »

We salute nationally-syndicated columnist Susan Estrich for her commitment to journalistic integrity, and her wholesale embracing of the new-media revolution that is sweeping away the tired old MSM. MORE »

Can you spot the error in the above paragraph? It’s the subject of one of our favorite Post corrections in ages (which we can’t find online yet, sorry): MORE »

Mistakes were made. MORE »

Waxing poetic in a newspaper article can be a dangerous thing — even for a rising star at the Post like Libby Copeland. MORE »

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If you’ll allow us to briefly venture into our loose-lipped sister’s territory, we found the New York Times’ choice of notoriously fact-handicapped TV critic Alessandra Stanley to review Tony Snow’s first televised press briefing a possibly ill-advised one. But it all seemed to work out, as the piece is fairly boilerplate and accurate. Fairly. There’s this, though: MORE »