{"id":2723,"date":"2008-10-19T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2008-10-19T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T01:20:24","slug":"thats-certainly-transformational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/thats-certainly-transformational","title":{"rendered":"That’s certainly transformational"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try to cut the Drudge Report<\/a> a bit of slack; I figure everyone has an agenda, and so I do my best to weigh their biases and suss out the signal from all the noise. Still, I was a little sad when I checked out the site this afternoon and saw this link in the top of the right column:<\/p>\n

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Disappointed because I saw the interview earlier in the day, and I knew that’s not what Colin Powell said. In fact, the very story that Drudge quote links to<\/a> includes the correct version of the quote:<\/p>\n

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I think the last decade’s proven pretty adequately that “Republican” is not the same as “conservative.” If you’re going to quote somebody, I think you have a duty to actually include the correct<\/em> quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I try to cut the Drudge Report a bit of slack; I figure everyone has an agenda, and so I do my best to weigh their biases and suss out the signal from all the noise. Still, I was a little sad when I checked out the site this afternoon and saw this link in … <\/p>\n

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