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Rick Santorum: Obama is 'Detached From the American Experience'

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Aceofwhat?6/28/2010 6:16:07 pm PDT

re: #343 Charles

If the New York Times got this so wrong, why didn’t the Santorums demand a correction? This piece was an in-depth profile of Santorum, and it’s actually pretty positive toward him. There’s no doubt that he read it. Do you think he just didn’t notice that they had misrepresented what happened — in a section about one of the most emotional events in their lives?

I don’t know whose account is correct, but I’m inclined to accept the New York Times’s version, because the Santorums have already demonstrated that they have a rather tenuous connection to reality and facts.

I don’t know. I assume that they didn’t find the errors so egregious. But we can tell whose account is correct. The Santorums’ account reads similar to what you’d expect for the defect. The NYT can’t even quote the book correctly, and makes it sound as if it were a fatal, inoperable thing and then all of a sudden there was an infection out of nowhere.

Seems easy to me. You have the Santorums’ account and a slight misrepresentation of their account that only matters if one really takes issue with whether they were right to go ahead with the birth.

The reverse question would be, how could the Santorums lie so blatantly about a set of facts so easily contradicted by friends and family? If your baby has that defect, everyone around you knows. Believing that they made this up in absence of strong evidence to the contrary (and misquoting their book is not that) is tough sledding.