I thought the law, and the law won!
Uncle Smokes |
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05.19.07 - 10:36 am | #
I fought I saw a puddy-tat!
Uncle Smokes |
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05.19.07 - 10:36 am | #
Neither one actually, they *fucked* long and hard and then made the decision.
It just came out 'fought'.
secondharmonic |
05.19.07 - 10:39 am | #
Jodi Kantor--isn't she the infamous Jodi Wilgoren, with a new name?
Karla Marx |
05.19.07 - 10:41 am | #
That correction won't stop Maureen Dowd from pimping this for the next 18 months as evidence of Obama's fractured home life.
Col Bat Guano |
05.19.07 - 11:14 am | #
"let's memory hole Newt Gingrich leaving his wife when she has cancer and attack the Obamas"-NYT
jr |
05.19.07 - 11:20 am | #
At least I fink that's what I said
Other Michael |
05.19.07 - 11:42 am | #
When Jenna & Not-Jenna were little girls, Georgie would fuck them in bed.
Oops, sorry ... that should be tuck them in bed. Oh well, it's just a couple of little letters.
(No, not a lower-case d, Ann!)
Ann Althouse's Right Breast |
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05.19.07 - 12:06 pm | #
And then in the correction they call him "Sen. BarackObama" like his was a run-on corporate name, such as DaimlerChrysler of GlaxoSmithKline. What playful fellows!
W. Kiernan |
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05.19.07 - 12:37 pm | #
This sounds like a Kagan dichotomy. The Kagans thought while others fought. And died.
bmaz |
05.19.07 - 12:43 pm | #
The difference is having to listen to Tucker yap about the Obama's weakening family stability for 2 days. Granted, I guess I didn't HAVE to listen.
Fred |
05.19.07 - 12:55 pm | #
When I read that, I thought it was a joke; that the friend was saying, in a tongue in cheek way, that the Obamas, two strong willed people who love each other, can debate their way to a decision, like adults so often do, and I thought it was great; tough and funny.
In light of the correction, it seems instead t havve been another in a long line of articles where a conclusion is reached first and then evidence is found or massaged to corroborate it.
It's too bad that the Times is becoming such a friendly and frequent host of that kind of insinuating style of journalism. There are many decent, honorable reporters and writers at the NYT; it must kill them to see the kind of stuff that makes the front page.
virgil |
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05.19.07 - 1:02 pm | #
Tuck the New York Fimes.
I would have fhought that someone who claims it is a typo would wonder what it would take Jodi Kantor and Jeff Zeleny to get the H out (of journalism).
I would suggest that we give a great deal of attention to Friday's profile of Michelle Obama. As I mentioned on Friday, Big Dem spouses have been spun very negatively--and very stupidly--in recent elections. (John Kerry's wife talks too much! Howard Dean's wife doesn't talk enough!) These stupid, nasty story-lines have tended to originate with (who else?) Maureen Dowd. And wouldn't you know it? Friday's profile flirted with a catty story-line (Obama's wife is a loudmouth bitch) which Dowd practically shouted from the rooftops in a column a few weeks ago.
This "accidental" "typographical"
"error" happens to reinforce this story-line perfectly.
The time has arrived to ask ourselves: Have we learned anything at all in the past few cycles about how our candidates--and their spouses--get presented to the public? You have to start complainly loudly, now, if you want to avoid reruns of the past few White House campaigns. Or do you still believe that Al Gore really said he invented the Internet? Do you still think the press corps was really troubled by John Kerry's wind-surfing?
bob somerby |
05.19.07 - 5:41 pm | #
Well, here's the difference:
Lucianne's Discharge, Mark Steyn, Big Pharma, Victor Davis Hanson, Sean Hannity, The Virgin Ben, David Brooks, William "The Bloody" Kristol, Dann Coulter, etc. etc.: THOUGHT.