An Apology to Senator Clinton
In a post a couple of days ago, I reprinted a quote attributed to Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Texas Insider. I used that quote as a jumping off point for a mini-rant about politicians (and Ms. Clinton specifically) attempting to jump on the "evangelical bandwagon" as an apparent matter of political expediency rather than genuine spirituality.
I'm embarrassed to find that this quote was actually concocted by someone else and "jokingly" attributed to Senator Clinton. Here's the full text of the retraction from the editor/publisher of the Texas Insider:
A thousand apologies to one and all for this error, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. I feel particularly foolish, as I am a National Review subscriber, and have the current issue in my kitchen; I simply had not yet arrived at that point in the publication when I published the quote.
Gentle Readers, please forgive the error.
I, too, extend my apologies to both Ms. Clinton and the readers of the Gazette. I have deleted the offending post (one of the good things about blogging...you really can undo the most obvious parts of the past...although that pesky Google cache sometimes mucks up the works) and reworded a subsequent post that referred to the fallacious quote.
I'm not a journalist (in the professional/occupational sense of the word), nevertheless, I should know better than to run with a quote like that without independently verifying it. Needless to say, it will be a while before the Texas Insider has my complete trust, and I recognize that the same skepticism will apply to your perception of the Gazette.
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"...although that pesky Google cache sometimes mucks up the works"
Propaganda-meister Michael Manure had that happen to him when he took his web site down after he and Senator Kerry failed to win the election.
It was Kerry-M00re '04 wasn't it? For the life of me I still don't understand why I they put "Edwards" on all those signs.
Edwards? Edwards who? Musta been a misprint. Typical Democrats. They can't even get the names right on the signs. Leading up to the election Kerry's running mate, Michael M00re was being interviewed on TV every night. Not that Edwards guy (whoever he was).
At any rate, when Mike didn't win the election he yanked his site down. Fortunately, Google's cache had most of his site's content carefully archived, much to the amusement of ideological "red-staters".
Incidentally, my "distrustful gland" (located next to the pineal gland) tells me that we may see a lot more spurious quotes attributed to Democrats in the hope of dragging Republican commentators down the same path blazed by Dan Blather.
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Eric!
Posted by: Mr. Freen at November 25, 2004 09:10 PM