Even though Durbin apologized last night, CBS still failed to notice the entire controversy. ABC and NBC noticed briefly last night, ABC for the first time, and NBC for the second. (The first time, Campbell Brown reported it with a White-House-attacked-Durbin-today spin.) From yesterday backwards, the morning shows never touched Durbin. Nexis shows Jim Lehrer had nothing, either.

How about the news magazines? No one had an actual story, however brief. U.S. News & World Report, which seems a little more willing to run juicy quotes Democrats would rather not see, didn’t have Durbin. Time did best by leading its quote page with “You would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime.” Strangely, Newsweek ran a Durbin quote as notable, too: “”I believe every member of Congress should have to explain why they don’t travel at least once a year to an important place.” That was Durbin, “defending the practice of third parties paying for politicians’ trips abroad.” They didn’t explain whether he was coming to Tom DeLay’s defense.