[2ndDivisionVet]

Editing error my Aunt Fannie!

[newzjunkey]

Their explanation fits with how I read the non-quote it this morning. It was a case of foolish writing, an attempt to be clever and terrible editing. The “quote” didn’t sound like Palin’s voice so I never took the quote as literal fact.

[Ron H.]

This is an example of the gutter journalism Politico has become known for. They belong in the grocery store check-out lines alongside the Globe and Examiner and so on. Oh wait, even those rags have SOME standards, don't they?!

[leprechaun9]

The authors of the piece, Paul Goldman and Mark J. Rozell, had crafted a paragraph to try to get at what Palin might be thinking. In their original version, they used quotation marks around what they imagined to be Palin’s thought – a common convention in column writing.

Since when is the proper use of Quotation Marks attributable to a person, defined by a writer?