Like Entertainment Tonight prematurely announcing the birth of Angelina Jolie's twin babies (which if true, interestingly, would've made the babies premature), the Associated Press called Hillary Clinton's concession to Barack Obama too early. It didn't take her campaign even a half hour to announce, on The View and elsewhere, that the AP got it wrong. But the wire is standing by this unassailable fact: Obama has finally, for all intents and purposes, and two years after this whole campaigning business started, swept up the Democratic nomination.

But in the never-ending battle that is news media, not everyone is jumping on the AP's report:

Obama sealed his victory based on public declarations from delegates as well as from an additional 18 who had confirmed their intentions to the AP. The count also included five delegates Obama was guaranteed as long as he gained 15 percent of the vote in South Dakota and Montana later in the day. It takes 2,118 delegates to clinch the nomination.

NBC News has been maintaining its own tally of delegates, which stood at Obama being 27.5 delegates short of the 2,118 needed. NBC News said it would not confirm Obama as the presumptive nominee until all private commitments by delegates were made public.

Ahhh, okay. So NBC News won't confirm Obama has nabbed the nomination, but they'll just phrase things like so: "The Associated Press reports Obama has sealed his victory."