In an apparent attempt to cover for the mainstream media’s hackery during the election, Howard Kurtz attempts to rewrite history in regards to the Trig Palin trutherism. Here’s what he wrote:

While taking swipes at bloggers — “probably sitting there in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas” — Palin also misstated some facts. She complained to Lauer about “the rumors, the speculation, even in mainstream media, that Trig wasn’t actually my child, that Trig was somebody else’s child and I faked a pregnancy,” calling that “absolutely ridiculous.”…

In fact, no mainstream outlet published the Internet rumors until the McCain campaign issued a statement, during the GOP convention, that Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant. McCain officials told reporters they were putting out the news because of inquiries about whether the governor was really Trig’s mother.

Really? That’s funny. Personal anecdote here: I remember actually talking to my family about the ridiculous Trig speculation when news came in that Bristol Palin was pregnant. In fact, I seem to remember that even lefty outlets used that as evidence that the rumors were bogus because Bristol couldn’t be as pregnant as she was and have birthed Trig. Did I get my timeline wrong?

Nope. Patterico points out that Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic posted the rumors on August 31, 2008. The Palins announed Bristol Palin’s pregnancy on…September 1. Which lines up with own personal recollection of hearing about the rumors before the campaign’s announcement.

Does Kurtz not consider the 151-year-old magazine “mainstream”? Or perhaps the Atlantic-employed, Atlantic-sanctioned blogger isn’t part of the magazine.