Blowhard News for Thursday.

Thompson Claims Palin ‘Hasn’t Been On The Cover Of Time Magazine,’ Even Though She Has
Yesterday at a McCain-Palin rally in Virginia, former senator Fred Thompson mocked the media for requesting more access to Palin. Using a common McCain campaign talking point, Thompson said that reporters were just upset that John McCain didn’t pick a well-known media favorite:

East Coast media says, “but we don’t know her.” She hasn’t been on the talk shows on Sunday. She hasn’t been on the cover of [T]ime magazine. And I say to them, “you may not know her but whose fault is that?” She hadn’t been hiding anywhere.
Perhaps Thompson hasn’t seen the Sept. 15 issue of Time magazine:

On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The ‘Mastermind’ of Sept. 11
Tomorrow marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. In a press conference today, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about the administration’s ongoing efforts to find Osama bin Laden, calling him the “mastermind” of 9/11. Perino interrupted the reporter, claiming bin Laden was not the true “mastermind” of the attacks:

Q But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –

PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.