The San Francisco Chronicle has a blog post up defending their actions regarding the Obama interview in which he says he would bankrupt coal plants with his CO2 legislation. The Chronicle singles out Newsbusters, in particular, for its criticism:

The truth: the paper’s January editorial board session with Obama included comments about coal. The entire interview has been in the public domain, available on line to the public — and to the McCain campaign — since early January.
”How can anyone suggest that we hid an interview that we did, immediately put up on the web — and advertised to our readers,” said editorial page editor John Diaz Sunday, regarding his hosting of Obama at the session. ”We promoted it like like hell…and I’m sure the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign scrubbed it. You can still find the whole 48 minutes and 33 seconds on line.”
Obama’s campaign responded to Palin’s comments today, noting correctly that the wide-ranging interview also included the Illinois Senator’s comments that the idea of eliminating coal plants was ”an illusion.”
Apparently neither campaign, until now, ever felt there was much worth mentioning regarding Obama’s coal comments. But it’s now two days before the election and McCain is in a do-or-die battle in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
A final note: the shoddy Newsbusters blog has been caught in the past simply fabricating news regarding the Chronicle’s coverage. Our paper has demanded corrections for their fiction, but to no avail.

I have no idea what they’re talking about with past Newsbusters pieces, but here’s what Newsbusters did post on the hidden audio interview:

UPDATE: NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer has found out that the San Francisco Chronicle story published on January 18 based upon this January 17 interview did not include any mention of Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry which you can hear on the audio. You can read the story here when you scroll down to the “In His Own Words” section. Way to cover up for The One, SF Chronicle!

When you click on the link above, you’ll see that the Chronicle felt no need to mention how Obama’s plans would increase electricity costs or bankrupt coal plants. One might make the argument that, since this was from the primary, the coal issue wasn’t important because Californians don’t care about coal. But it is telling that whenever Obama and Biden are in San Francisco talking to a far-left audience, the truth of their positions always seems to come out. What was it Governor Palin said about saying one thing in San Francisco and another in the bitter parts of the country?