Check out this passage in Chris Cillizza's write-up of Mark Kirk's handling of his previous false claims about his military record:

At issue is Kirk's past claim that he had been named the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year -- an award that he actually did not receive as was first reported by the Post's Jeff Smith on May 29.

Kirk acknowledged the misstatement in a blog post two days earlier but the question of how he came to be aware of the information remains a point of considerable contention.

Cillizza's timeline checks out: Kirk acknowledged on his web page on May 27 that he had previously made false claims about his military service. And the first news reports about it that are available in Nexis came on May 29. The Washington Post article Cillizza says first reported the story was posted at 5:41 PM on the 29th.

So, after days of media obsession over Richard Blumenthal's misstatement of his military record, no news organization could be bothered to report Kirk's confession for two whole days?

Anyone think that if a Democratic congressman & Senate candidate publicly admitted embellishing his military record, the media would ignore it for two days? Yeah, right.