Rocket Man has frequently noted that the New York Times’ Corrections section betrays, along with that paper’s extravagant political bias, an ignorance of history that would shame a competent high school student. Today’s Corrections provide an astounding example.
Best of the Web Today points out that in the Times article on Wesley Clark’s professed support for a constitutional amendment supporting laws against flag desecration, Times reporter Edward Wyatt noted: “While the House has approved a flag amendment bill in most sessions in recent years, the Senate has not taken up the issue since 2000, when the proposal fell four votes short of the necessary two-thirds required for a constitutional amendment to be sent to the voters.”
Today the Times ran the following correction: “An article yesterday about Gen. Wesley K. Clark’s support for a constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the flag referred incorrectly to the process for adopting one. In the process that begins with passage by Congress, a proposed amendment is normally sent to state legislatures or state conventions for approval, not directly to voters.”
BOTW also notes the peculiarity of this correction, asking: “[W]hat does the Times mean, ‘normally’? State legislatures and state conventions are the only bodies that can ratify an amendment under Article V of the Constitution.”
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