FWIW, I saw the KHQA article myself earlier today before “the dog ate it”. I didn’t catch the date on the byline, but it clearly said what Charles has clipped:

CHICAGO, ILL. — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.

He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

Now let’s all act really shocked that a Chicago political thug would lie about it.

Update:

Now it’s bordering on comical.

It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama’s supporters appear to be using — and abusing — a tool allowing them to “flag” questions as “inappropriate” to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama’s website.

Well, what good is being a demigod if you can’t have minions?

Another Update:

More digging in the Memory Hole.

Oh, and Mark Krikorian gets the credit for the title of this post.