The New York Times has issued a
correction to their latest quote from George Meagher:
An article on Sunday about people who supported George Bush in the 2000 election and are considering a vote for the Democratic candidate this year referred incorrectly to George Meagher, who voiced dissatisfaction with the administration. As noted on Feb. 3 in an earlier account of his comments in the same interview, for an article about veterans leaning toward Senator John Kerry, Mr. Meagher is an independent, not a Republican.
However, this correction only raises more questions. Consider what the Times actually said in the Sunday article:
George Meagher, a Republican who founded and now runs the American Military Museum in Charleston, S.C., said he threw his "heart and soul" into the Bush campaign four years ago. He organized veterans to attend campaign events, including the campaign's kickoff speech at the Citadel. He even has photographs of himself and his wife with Mr. Bush.
"Given the outcome and how dissatisfied I am with the administration, it's hard to think about now," he said. "People like me, we're all choking a bit at not supporting the president. But when I think about 500 people killed and what we've done to Iraq. And what we've done to our country. I mean, we're already $2 trillion in debt again."
Hmmm, an independent who threw his heart and soul into the 2000 Bush campaign, who has photographs of himself and his wife with the President? And the moaning about 500 people killed seems a little bizarre; nobody going into the Iraq War thought the casualties were going to be that LOW. Also, the Times does not correct Meagher's comment about "$2 trillion in debt again", which is simply not true. The national debt is FAR more than $2 trillion; the
National Debt Clock estimates the current debt at a shade over $7 trillion. The
deficit, often confused with the national debt, is far less than $2 trillion; the last estimate I saw was about $540 billion.
