President Bush will deliver a message to the nation tonight from Fort Bragg. The network coverage will begin at 7:00pm central time.

For those who can’t wait, though, Associated Press reporter and Democratic operative Jennifer Loven has already published her report on the speech. With a dateline nearly ten hours before the speech, Loven still had the temerity to phrase it as though the event had already happened. Guess she didn’t want to miss Gilmore Girls to hear a guy who really isn’t her president.

Also, I’d love to know what journalistic standard caused the Associated Press to decide hours later to change the headline from “Bush Appeals for Nation’s Patience on Iraq” to “Bush: Bloodshed in Iraq Is ‘Worth It’”. Good thing there’s no liberal bias in the mainstream media, eh?

Later update: The story’s dateline has now changed to 7:06 PM ET, but not one word was changed since the original version was posted nearly nine hours before.

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