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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (14391)9/29/2005 8:54:42 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Speaking of Cultural Illiteracy

Power Line

Over the years, we have had a lot of fun with the Corrections section off the New York Times. That section constitutes a running commentary on the bias so often manifested in that newspaper; even more strikingly, it sometimes reveals a stunning lack of high school-level knowledge of history, science and literature on the part of Times reporters and editors. Today's Corrections include a mind-blowing example of this genre:

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The About New York column yesterday, about an imagined conversation with God at a Manhattan diner, referred incorrectly to the Bible to which the thickness of the menu was likened. It is the King James Version, not St. James.
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I'm speechless.

I'd link to the original article, but I can't: it's part of "Times Select."

powerlineblog.com

nytimes.com
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