January 25, 2007 -- 4:20 PM EST // //

WHEN I'M WRONG, I'M WRONG. Earlier today I put up a post saying that John McCain was telling a falsehood when he said the following about the "surge" yesterday on CNN: "Overnight ratings, I understand, were slightly in favor of supporting the president's proposal." Because of McCain's use of the word "proposal," I assumed that he was referring to the speech Bush gave when he unveiled the "surge" on Jan. 10. But a rather aggressive commenter has made a persuasive case that it was instead a reference to the SOTU speech the other day, and one CBS poll does show what McCain claimed (though as plenty of other commenters pointed out, that poll has its flaws). I think it's very clear that the commenter is right, and that I was wrong. So I've taken the post down. Apologies for the sloppy error.