Not really an apology, but this kind of thing did not happen four years ago.
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June 10th, 2008
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This is exactly what peeves me off about MMFA and their ilk. By raising a big stink over this kind of thing, you get it more coverage in the news/blogosphere/etc, and sure, it reflects badly on whatever Fox News anchor had a freudian slip, but it reflects worse on (in this case) Obama, because it gets that meme out, subconsciously or not. Then when the anchor sheepishly says “i’m sorry”, there’s next to no coverage except for MMFA putting up a self-congratulatory item about it. In the end, MMFA winds up doing a brilliant job of *amplifying* the right wing echo chamber.
“…whatever Fox News anchor had a freudian slip,…”
It wasn’t a “slip,” freudian or otherwise, on Hill’s part. The words “terrorist fist jab” came out of her mouth in the context of reading words off of a teleprompter (words that, evenif she didn’t write them herself, she didn’t object to when preparing for that day’s show by reading what she was going to say on the air).
“evenif” should have been “even if”