PrintJuly 23, 2008
It's rewrite time again for Obama
Steve Glbert catches Obama rewriting (without acknowledging he's done so) his pledge on dealing with Iran.
And Patterico reports that the entire Der Speigel interview with Maliki was rewritten by the magazine:
The Columbia Journalism Review has a maddeningly sloppy and incomplete, but also interesting and informative article about how the Maliki remarks came to be translated so differently by the New York Times and Der Spiegel. It turns out that, not only did Der Spiegel rewrite the critical passage without telling anyone, it also rewrote the whole interview, while pretending that it was a verbatim exchange.
The weather's nice in most of the country. It's obvious that about 95% of the information the media is feeding us is wrong, and their attention is focused on a man who changes his position on the hour. Go outside and get some fresh air!
