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oh, fact-checking

By casey Jan 15th 2008 at 12:12 pm EST

You're in for life, my friend.

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Times Needs Better Fact-Checkers

By Justin Elliott - Jan 15th, 2008 at 2:21 am EST

Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog

First, Bill Kristol cites Michelle Malkin when he meant Michael Medved. Now we get this embarrassing (and still uncorrected, as of this writing) error from the latest David Brooks column:

All the habits of verbal thuggery that have long been used against critics of affirmative action, like Ward Churchill and Thomas Sowell, and critics of the radical feminism, like Christina Hoff Summers, are now being turned inward by the Democratic front-runners.

Ward Churchill? The Native-American Marxist "chickens-coming-home-to-roost" dude? I'm pretty sure he means Ward Connerly. Lesson for the fact-checkers here: you gotta check the name beyond the initials.

p.s. an alternative explanation: Could this be some kind of subversive act of neocon solidarity from Brooks?

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