RUNNING WITH the coal issue. “Seizing on a newly released audio tape picked up by the Drudge Report, Sarah Palin took the opportunity here in coal country to accuse Barack Obama of ‘talking about bankrupting the coal industry.'”

UPDATE: The limits of the tanning-bed media.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Context? “Democrat Barack Obama’s admission that he will use regulation to bankrupt the coal industry is a bombshell that the San Francisco Chronicle sat on for 10 months.” Well, I think the hour-long video was on their website. But I guess nobody in the room noticed the bombshell.

MORE: More context.

STILL MORE: Coal official calls Obama comments ‘unbelievable’. “At least one state coal industry leader said he was shocked by comments Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made earlier this year concerning his plan to aggressively charge polluters for carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. . . . According to the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, the coal industry provides about 40,000 direct jobs in the state, including those for miners, mine contractors, coal preparation plant employees and mine supply company workers.”