Laura Myers is so far up Sharron Angle's ass she can't begin to cover her fairly.

On Saturday there was the completely incomprehensible story about Angle's 70-minute sit down with the RJ's editorial board. http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-offers-apology-to-unemployed-99160234.html

Thankfully the RJ has posted the entire unedited video of Angle's rambling, incomprehensible answers. http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/UNEDITED-Sharron-Angle-speaks-with-the-Review-Journals-editorial-board-99161839.html

Of course, they also spruced up Angle for the main video that is edited. http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/Sharron-Angle-answers-questions-from-the-Review-Journals-editorial-board-99152049.html -- apparently they hope people don't have 77 minutes to pore through the unedited one and see the truth for themselves.

We don't know what's more embarrassing in this video, Angle's grinning every time she talks herself in and out of position, or the RJ's editorial board questions.

Angle supposedly offers an apology to the unemployed for saying they're spoiled. Then she says she would have voted no on the benefits extension. But then she says people should stay on unemployment as long as they need to.

WTF?

Why does Myers give us three separate policy positions -- all on opposite ends -- as if that makes perfect sense for the candidate?

She does this either because she's lazy, or because she's covering for Angle.

On Sunday, Myers had to stoop to the blogosphere to cover Netroots Nation and RightOnline. http://www.lvrj.com/news/reid--angle-pitch-to-bloggers-99190569.html

She describes Angle as knocking her stump speech out of the park. Not how we saw her incomprehensible statements on bailouts and stimuli and Social Security. Again, no fact checking Angle. No checking Angle against previous statements or positions.

This is really lazy stuff. Now, what's out of Myers' control is really egregious Sunday.

The paper ran a mondo pic of Angle taking the stage at RightOnline. No pic of Reid mingling with lefty bloggers, hugging Lt. Dan Choi or talking to the big Netroots crowd. There is a picture of Reid with Oscar Goodman based on the mayor's bus tour Saturday.

So, getting back to the question of whether it's laziness or bias -- consider this -- Myers has bylines on stories that took place at the Rio, the Venetian and on a bus through downtown Las Vegas. She either is the most industrious journo in town, or she's getting fed stuff without disclosing who gave it to her.

We don't suspect that she wasn't in all three places, just that her description of Angle's speech at RightOnline is very odd.

Thankfully, both C-Span and Media Matters for America have Angle's speech on tape. I'll post the links as soon as they're public.

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I think the RJ's correction Sunday is a local fuck-up of a wire service photo.

"A caption on a photo with a story about pay for elected officials in the city of Bell, Calif., in Saturday's Review-Journal contained an error. The city of Bell is in Los Angeles County."

Typically when the AP makes an error, the RJ says it was the AP's error.

Chalk this one up to the unidentified copy editor.

Finally we get to today's paper.

The political notebook is a strange animal today.

The first item is a fairly nice tribute to the late Gov. Kenny Guinn.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/millennium-scholarship-recipient-grateful-99219589.html

But then there's this curious "update" about Scott Ashjian.

We say it's curious because well, Ashjian has completely avoided media and, best as we can tell, hasn't done a thing to campaign for the U.S. Senate race.

So, why is the RJ trying to get an update from him?

To remind Sharron Angle's base not to vote for him.

The information about Ashjian's business practices, liens, taxes, etc. is perfectly valid, but drawn out of thin air like this, it simply shows the RJ will stop at nothing to help Sharron Angle.