The AP is confirming that one of the days that Sen. David Vitter phoned the D.C. Madam was on February 27, 2001. Kind of a slow work day as it was also the date of the President’s first address to a joint session of Congress.

The AP, however, goes and inserts this odd sentence and insinuates that the Senator’s behavior had something to do with the Mardi Gras celebration taking place hundreds of miles away in New Orleans:

The fourth call was placed at 4:39 p.m. on Feb. 11, 2001, a Sunday. The fifth was placed at 3:06 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001, more than two hours before Vitter voted in the day’s only House roll call. It was Mardi Gras, an especially festive day in New Orleans, which is near Vitter’s home town of Metairie.

But, I guees it would be odd as well if the AP mentioned that the call was made on State of the Union day as that would insinuate that the Senator’s actions had something to do with the President’s call to lower taxes.