Botched Reporting

When John Kerry announced that he would not run for the Presidency next year, a number of news outlets connected his decision to the “botched joke” that brought widespread criticism from conservatives and military personnel. The MSM are mostly committed to the idea that Kerry’s gaffe was indeed a “botched joke,” but it’s really hard to explain just how Kerry got from a “joke” about President Bush to an apparent slam against our soldiers in Iraq, as the New York Times sheepishly acknowledged in a correction this morning:

An article yesterday about Senator John Kerry

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