Media fallout today...

Despite the Daily Cal's insistence that the story merits below the fold at best, more wires have picked it up then their lead: 'Mayor Dean calls for Firefighter pay raise.' Those wacky news services don't know what they've got.

Besides Instapundit, there's been stories at Opinion Journal and National Review.

NBC Local news did a segment for the six o'clock news. Their new bit: the thieves entered through a crawlspace in the roof, not through the door. This argues that the perps must have good knowledge of the little known secrets of Eshleman Hall, which MECHA does. Overall, a good segment with heavy quotes from KG Barnett, the Patriot's Editor in Chief. The best part was the rebuttal from MECHA to the charge they harassed Patriot-eers yesterday. 'As far as I could tell, they were harassing us.'

Not only is this shockingly untrue, it's also completely impossible: there's no way to identify a MECHA member unless they come up and identify themselves. There's no way a Patriot person initiated some sort of harassment. MECHA had to start it. They also apparently plan to sue the Patriot. Libel lawyers everywhere are lining up to take that case, I'm sure.

Tonight MECHA will pack the ASUC Senate to bitch at Republican Senator James Gallagher. I can't attend, but hopefully a Calstuff Correspondent will be on the scene.

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