Sighting: The Full Hillary Quote About Martin Luther King Is Spotted In The Times!
January 12, 2008 -- 10:27 AM EST // //
As I pointed out here yesterday, The New York Times has repeatedly printed a truncated version of Hillary's now-notorious quote about Martin Luther King, despite the fact that there's been an argument over whether the truncated quote is a distortion of what she actually said. Hillary's comments have become a major issue in the campaign.
Well, today The Times has finally run the full quote, at the bottom of an item on the paper's political blog.
Count this as progress, I guess. Still, as best as I can determine, this is the first time Hillary's full quote has been printed by The Times since Hillary made the comment six days ago, which of course is an eternity in a presidential campaign. And it still hasn't appeared in the print version of the paper.
The larger point, though this obviously isn't the fault of The Times alone, is that the truncated version of the quote has long since become truth, and there's literally nothing that will ever undo it at this point.
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