(Bush's) New Policy Adviser Admits Altering Text (Zinsmeister)

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900834.html

New Policy Adviser Admits Altering Text

Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's new domestic policy adviser, acknowledged he did something wrong when he took a newspaper profile of himself, altered quotes and text, and then posted it on a Web site without noting the changes.

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In one example, the original article attributed to Zinsmeister this quote: "People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings."

But, on the institute site, it appeared as: "I learned in Washington that there is an 'overclass' in this country stocked with cheating, shifty human beings that's just as morally repugnant as our 'underclass.' "

Zinsmeister explained the change to The Washington Post by saying he has long studied issues of class and morality and he was confident he would have used the kind of specific language in the quote on the institute site rather than the more broad description in the original article.

[KansDem]

1. And so it continues...

Don't like it? Change it! Even if it runs contrary to the truth. Isn't there anyone in the Bushistas with honor and integrity?

[Zorra]

6. "Isn't there anyone in the Bushistas with honor and integrity?"

No.

No one with the slightest shred of honor and integrity would ever even consider aligning themselves in any way with this morally bankrupt fascist regime.

[barbtries]

11. mmmmmmmmmmmm

no.

[bettyellen]

2. he rewrote a WP article about himself? it's not a wikpedia entry, is it?

and "altering text"- what does that mean?
have we collectively become unable to call people on their bullshit? it would seem so.

[Up2Late]

3. This is straight out of Orwell's 1984.

Unbelievable.:banghead: :argh:

[tanyev]

12. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.

The past is what we say it was. There is no truth; there is no reality.

[daleo]

4. He sounds shifty, cheating and repugnant

Pretending to pass off his own "quotes" as an independent newspaper article.

[jrw14125]

5. Just par for the course. recall, this guy replaces the Target bandito.

[PaDem]

7. This is why we call him........

The Spiiiiiiiiiiiinmeeeeeeiiiiiiisteeeeeerrrrrr!!!

[jayfish]

8. Wow, His Edit Wasn't Even That Good.

"...human beings that's just as morally repugnant as our 'underclass." What exactly is this underclass and why are its members defined as morally repugnant. Nice English, BTW.

Jay

[Rex]

9. And thus spin is taken to the next level.

Could only be done by someone named Zinsmeister. Karl's zining the truth so hard everything's blurry. Did he use his 'large words' to sound intellectual? Yes - morally repugnant. Did he attach new wording to the location, yes. Zin now knows that people are separated into two classes (not just people anymore). Does he deserve a cookie? No.

Result - zining moran.

[truthisfreedom]

10. whatever. his new version is unintelligible. what an idiot.

bushco makes their "made men" think they're gods, but ultimately reveals their weaknesses through this sort of nonsense.