Reporter repeats bogus story for contrast

Lifting this almost verbatim from Dan Froomkin's White House Briefing in the Post:

Remember all the fuss when President Clinton's haircut aboard Air Force One reportedly shut down two runways at LAX for about an hour? [spook: How could we forget? Remember when the report was debunked? We do.]
The New York Times reports that the longest runway at the Las Cruces, N.M., airport "has been closed since President Bush made a campaign stop in August 2004."
... "It has gouges six inches deep and a hundred yards long, which the city says were put there by two Air Force cargo planes accompanying the president. Las Cruces put the damage at $2.1 million."
The Air Force, which had been warned that their planes were too heavy, is now offering $600,000 for repairs.
Bush at the time was on an intensive three-day fundraising trip that netted him $4.6 million.