One of the most amusing typos of the season turned up for awhile overnight in a major Associated Press dispatch. Some in the liberal blogosphere, who have often criticized Sen. Joe Lieberman -- the Democrat turned Independent who has endorsed John McCain -- found it all too apt.I know what you're saying: where's the typo? But some people believe he's something less than a self-obsessive narcissist who conducts foreign policy on the basis of whether it makes himself look bad by admitting massive, massive wrongness. He also seems to want the US to act out Israel's foreign policy over our own and likes to question the patriotism of people who disagree with him, but these are minor quibbles about America's foremost Droopy Dog impersonator. Maybe I should lay off, he was the Dad on ALF after all and I kinda liked that show.
The typo, in an article on the upcoming vice presidential picks due from McCain and Barack Obama and written by one of the top AP political scribes, Nedra Pickler, was soon corrected but can still be found viewed via Google at numerous news sites early this morning.
After focusing on Obama, the article discusses several possible McCain picks, and relates, "His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent."
It's still up at such sites as the Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland's Plain Dealer and many more.
I've heard the definition of a 'gaffe', the only political speech our news media is actually interested in, is when someone says the truth accidentally. So what is it when the AP accidentally prints the truth? Factcidental? A factcident. I like it.
What situation do we have to contrive so that Dick Cheney will be referred to as a shambling, cretinous, amoral homunculus?
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