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To: DMaA who wrote (240988)	3/7/2008 1:43:16 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793843

Anyone who thinks uttering the words "off the record" to a reporter will ensure that the comments remain unpublished is either extremely naive or a fool.

To: DMaA who wrote (240988)	3/7/2008 5:54:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

"She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything," The Scotsman quoted her as saying. Does off the record mean something else in Scotland? Um, no. Apparently it means exactly the same thing to Scottish reporters as to American ones. She gave the interview on the record and was a damn fool to think she could selectively withhold her juiciest comments.