The Knucklehead of the Day Carnival Part Eight

We'll stay close to home for winner number eight today. Better yet this winner is a perennial one with TFM.

Our eight winners are the Palm Beach Post newspaper and its Washington Bureau reporter Larry Lipman. They get the award for this article about Senate hopeful Katherine Harris.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris has donated an undisclosed amount of money to an undisclosed Florida charity to offset the cost of a dinner she had with a subsequently convicted defense contractor two years ago.

The March 2004 dinner with Mitchell Wade, the former chief executive officer of MZM Inc., occurred at Citronelle, one of Washington's most expensive restaurants, and was not reported on Harris' financial disclosure records. Wade pleaded guilty earlier this year to bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif. He stipulated that he gave Harris' 2004 congressional campaign $32,000 in illegal contributions.

Harris, R-Longboat Key, had a subsequent dinner with Wade at the same restaurant last year, which had previously been reported by the media. Harris said the $2,800 tab for that dinner was because Wade took several unopened bottles of expensive wine with him.

After reports of the second meal surfaced, Harris contributed $100 to Global Dominion Impact Ministries in Jacksonville to offset what she said was her share of the dinner's cost.

Why does this earn the Post and Lipman an award. It's simple, the same thing was reported four days earlier by the St. Pete Times. Me a middle aged blogger, scooped the Post by two days on this story. The Post and its reporters have done this before. The paper's ideology is bad enough, but they are frequently far behind in their news coverage or fail to report local stories at all. Why should people pay for this rag of a newspaper?

Good question isn't it? For failing its readers yet again, The Palm Beach Post and its reporter Larry Lipman are two of today's Knuckleheads of the day.

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