HOLE. SHOVEL. DIGGING. A.P. vs. the bloggers, again.

Plus, Mark Steyn piles on.

UPDATE: More thoughts here: “The AP won’t produce its star source, Jamil Hussein, the policeman that neither the Iraqi Ministry of Interior nor CENTCOM can find record of, any of the immolated bodies or their names, the names and credentials of the local Iraqis the AP used as reporters of the incident and the AP’s follow-up, the purported conveniently located afterward anonymous witnesses, nor any Sunni leaders who are aware of the claimed incident.” Plus, a Nixon comparison.