Controversy v. Falsehood

Exceptional Article from the Atlantic's James Fallows from nearly a week ago, catching on to the obvious before the Mainstream Media:

"Twice in the last six months we've had the spectacle of a candidate clinging to a provably false personal narrative........
One, of course, was Hillary Clinton's "hail of bullets" account of her arrival at the airport in Bosnia. The other is Sarah Palin's "thanks but no thanks" claim to have opposed funding for the "bridge to nowhere." In Senator Clinton's case, the more often she repeated the story, the more relentlessly the press said the story was not true. All parts of the press did this: right, left, middle. They didn't say that there was a "controversy" about her story. They said it was false. And eventually she bowed to the inevitable and stopped telling the story any more. In Governor Palin's case, the more often she has repeated the story, the more abashed the press has seemed about pointing out its falsity."