For additional background, see my previous posts here, here, here and here.

Today, it looks like Michelle Malkin has decided to jump headlong into this controversy. Check out her posts:

David Gergen speaks.
Chris Dodd speaks.
Howard Kurtz and Mickey Kaus.
Justin Vaisse’ account. (Direct link here).
Deconstruction of Howard Kurtz‘ article. (Article here)
Eason Jordan does it AGAIN?

And there’s lots more on the Howard Kurtz piece in the Washington Post in addition to Michelle’s analysis. Hugh Hewitt weighs in. LaShawn has an opinion. Ed Morissey also takes a shot.

It took Kurtz over a week to finally get around to publishing this article on Eason’s Fables. In that time, it appears that Kurtz did as little investigation as possible on Jordan. My readers and I found all of Jordan’s earlier commentary within 24 hours, and we only have very limited access to Nexis and full-time jobs doing other things than media analysis. Worse than that, all of this information has been repeatedly presented on my blog — in fact, it was all presented on my blog today, and we know Howard Kurtz read my blog sometime this afternoon. Why didn’t Kurtz ask about his remarks in Portugal from three months ago, or about his identical accusations against Israel two years ago? Why didn’t Kurtz press Jordan on the entire story? Only Kurtz can answer that, and I doubt he will have much more to say to anyone about Eason’s Fables from this point onward.

Another MSM piece appears here in the New York Sun. Captain Ed says it’s better than Howard Kurtz with only a few hours of effort.

I spoke with Roderick Boyd yesterday afternoon, probably at Hugh Hewitt’s suggestion, whom Boyd quotes for the article. Boyd got this story yesterday on top of another assignment due at roughly the same time (on the financial performance of two NY media stocks). Yet he managed to investigate the entire story, get new information out of Barney Frank, talk to at least two of the bloggers involved in keeping this story alive, and publish a news article instead of a facile shrug meant to bury the story. Compare this to Howard Kurtz’s effort, after having the story and an interview with David Gergen for over a week. Kurtz should be embarassed with his wan performance.

LaShawn notices, on her Easongate round up of the day (she’s also got a category chock full of info here):

Somebody’s trying to profit from the Eason Jordan scandal by auctioning off easonsfables.com on ebay. The nerve of some people.

It looks like there may be a bit of a twist, in that there needs to be some approval to distribute the anxiously awaited tape. See sisyphus for more.

UPDATE: Rebecca MacKinnon has started a del.icio.us list for Easongate.