# Was Maureen Dowd's Comment Correct, Spin, Innocent Error, or Flat-Out Lie?

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**Created:** [May 14, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-maureen-dowds-comment-correct-spin-innocent-error-or-flat-out-lie/175273 "2003-05-14T20:32:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-maureen-dowds-comment-correct-spin-innocent-error-or-flat-out-lie/175273/141 "2003-06-02T17:49:29Z")

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The Sacramento Bee ran a [correction](http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/6757574p-7708472c.html) of an editorial that was presumably based on Dowd’s column. (It was written a day after Dowd’s column appeared.)

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> The May 15 editorial “Crypto-government” quoted President Bush out of context regarding the threat posed by al-Qaida terrorists…
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> The use of the partial quotation created the false impression that the president was dismissing the threat posed by al-Qaida as a whole rather than its members who had been killed or apprehended.

It’s just pathetic that the _New York Times_ and Maureen Dowd don’t have the cojones to simply print a brief correction.

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