Washington Post and the Rush Limbaugh Memory Hole

A few days ago the Wash­ing­ton Post broke down and revealed that the Rush Lim­baugh boy­cott had failed. Hotair quoted the paper:

Limbaugh’s adver­tis­ing losses may have been less than media accounts sug­gested. While more than 100 adver­tis­ers told Pre­mière that they didn’t want to be asso­ci­ated with “con­tro­ver­sial” radio pro­grams of any kind in the wake of the flap, some of these com­pa­nies weren’t reg­u­lar Lim­baugh spon­sors in the first place.

Caru­sone said most of the adver­tiser exo­dus over the past month appeared to be among com­pa­nies whose ads aired only in regional or local mar­kets, he said. “Fewer than five” nation­wide spon­sors of the pro­gram actu­ally pulled out, he said…

Today while writ­ing my “Under the Fedora” col­umn I went to the Wash­ing­ton Post page and sud­denly this para­graph looks…dif­fer­ent.

Caru­sone said most of the adver­tiser exo­dus over the past month appeared to be among com­pa­nies whose ads aired only in regional or local mar­kets, he said.

Inter­est­ingly enough the sen­tence say­ing “fewer than five” is gone. Here is the screen shot from HotAir:

and here is a screen shot of the Wash­ing­ton Post link as of 2:20 p.m. this after­noon (Click to enlarge):

I guess the real­ity of the num­bers is just too much for the Post to leave posted for posterity.

Update: Insta­lanche, thanks Glenn and this from com­ments that deserves repeat­ing:

If Wood­ward and Berstein were dead, they’d be turn­ing over in their graves…except that Wood­ward is now the exec­u­tive editor.

It’s one thing to chase down Nixon…quite another to tell the truth about Rush.

Update 2: Don Surber links and says:

Paul Fahri made the mis­take of telling the truth about Rush Lim­baugh. That must be a vio­la­tion of the Wash­ing­ton Post’s stylebook.

Update 3: Under the Fedora is now up.