Another precious moment from shrub...
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Sun Oct 7 17:28:05 PDT 2001
Often transcripts are done phonetically and touched-up by hand. Or,
if the repasted quote came from an article, well, CNN reporters have
been known to make mistakes on occasion, just like anyone else.
-Declan
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:09:12PM -0700, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2001, at 19:44, James B. DiGriz wrote:
>
> > measl at mfn.org wrote:
> >
> > > Pasted from CNN:
> > >
> > > "More than two weeks ago, I gave Taliban leaders a series of clear and
> > > specific demands: Close terrorist training camps, hand over leaders of the
> > > Al Qaeda network and return all foreign nationals, including American
> > > citizens unjustly detained in our country," Bush said.
> > >
> > > Detained in OUR country??? Jesus this guy is an idiot..
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > I just watched replay of his statement. That's a typo on somebody's
> > part. He clearly said "your".
> >
> > jbdigriz
> >
> >
>
> Well, SOMEBODY is clearly an idiot. Of course,
> neither a slip of the tongue nor a typo are really
> signs of idiocy.
>
> George
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