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NYT: Correction on Gail Collin's "Walker Needs an Eraser" hit piece
New York Times ^ | February 15, 2015 | Gail Collins

Posted on 02/15/2015 11:53:44 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Correction: February 15, 2015

An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that teacher layoffs in Milwaukee in 2010 happened because Gov. Scott Walker “cut state aid to education.” The layoffs were made by the city’s school system because of a budget shortfall, before Mr. Walker took office in 2011.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; 2016electionbias; biggovernment; demagogicparty; education; election2016; getscottwalker; libmyths; memebuilding; milwaukee; mythmaking; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; revisionisthistory; scottwalker; teacherlayoffs; wisconsin
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
oh - it it comes from the socialist news - time to blackmail and ruin reputations with pathetic lies and made up BS...

If i were elected President - these news sources, their owners, and the reporters would all be arrested and shipped out of the US - with a card of me saying. "Enjoy your Communist utopias where ever it may be - because it's not here!"

21 posted on 02/16/2015 3:03:19 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Someone should ask Harry Truman...


22 posted on 02/16/2015 5:07:06 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

NYT never lets the facts stand in the way of a good story.


23 posted on 02/16/2015 5:11:01 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Yale-educated Howard Dean added a new word to the lexicon of Democratic condescension, “unknowledgeable.”

“I didn't say dumb,” Dean clarified. “I said unknowledgeable.”

As in:

"Bill Gates is 'unknowledgeable' because he didn't complete college."


24 posted on 02/16/2015 5:13:20 AM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: “fundamentally transformed” is a euphemism for “wrecked beyond repair.”)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I didn't say dumb,” Dean clarified. “I said unknowledgeable.”

And the follow-up should have been, "Exactly what pertinent knowledge is he lacking from not completing college?"

I'd bet that Dean would have ended up sounding "unknowledgeable"...

25 posted on 02/16/2015 5:13:30 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It’s a non-apology apology, worthy of a Leftist.

The attack piece was most likely above-the-fold, 24 point font bolded.

The “retraction” was on page 78, 6 font, next to the personal ads used for casual sexual transactions in the airport men’s rooms.


26 posted on 02/16/2015 5:19:07 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A correction is not an apology. An apology is due Mr. Walker.


27 posted on 02/16/2015 5:21:39 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Translation: Our lies were fact checked by the internet.

Pray America is waking


28 posted on 02/16/2015 5:25:44 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I didn't say dumb,” Dean clarified. “I said unknowledgeable.”

Unknowledgeable is an odd word. It could maybe describe a hidden fact, but it's quite hard to see how it could describe a person. And, even if it could describe a person, it would indeed mean that person is "dumb". Additionally though, Dr. Dean should know that "dumb" describes someone who cannot speak, not someone who is unteachable.

The fact that Dr. Dean has such a weak grasp of the English language, as well as such a weak grasp of medical terms, says to me that it is he who lacks proper education, not Governor Walker. Note, that I am calling education something that one LEARNS while in school, not simply the number of years spent in school. It may be that Dr. Dean spent a great number of years in school, it appears that those years resulted in very little education.

29 posted on 02/16/2015 5:28:48 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Iron Munro
Is unknowledgeable even a word?
30 posted on 02/16/2015 5:30:20 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
1 (12 ounce) can or bottle of beer — preferably Wisconsin beer such as Spotted Cow

Leinenkugel's should be the default Wisconsin beer. Reasonably priced, 100% Wisconsin, tastes decent, and widely available.
31 posted on 02/16/2015 5:34:56 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: trebb

What benefit, may I ask, is a medical degree for someone, such as Howard Dean, who sought the presidency and who now comments on others’ lack of education. What did his education provide him that would have qualified him to be president?


32 posted on 02/16/2015 6:26:53 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Scott Walker not having completed his degree may just become a problem for the college degree mills that benefit from having as many students get into debt paying big money to support college professors. Knowledgeable young people might decide they are intelligent enough to earn a living without the benefits or possibly constraints of a degree.


33 posted on 02/16/2015 6:37:14 AM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And if the restriction is for a presidential candidate to have a college/university degree, which makes you educated though perhaps not exactly knowledgeable; then perhaps since the president is also the Commander in Chief of the military, then there should be a requirement that a presidential candidate have served in the military. I think Dean’s response to that would be quite, uhm...loud and undignified for an educated man as he.


34 posted on 02/16/2015 6:44:05 AM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Does she actually have this degree or has she made it up?


35 posted on 02/16/2015 6:55:13 AM PST by pugmama
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To: Dr. Sivana
Leinenkugel's should be the default Wisconsin beer. Reasonably priced, 100% Wisconsin, tastes decent, and widely available.

Pennsylvania's default beer is, $20/24-12oz cans, tastes great, and is still made in a family owned brewery.


36 posted on 02/16/2015 7:33:19 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: USS Alaska
Pennsylvania's default beer is, $20/24-12oz cans, tastes great, and is still made in a family owned brewery.

And it is widely available here in southern Georgia. When I get a break from this diet, I may replace my regular Peroni with Yuengling. I had a Ptssburgh friend who loved Iron City and Stonies (sp?) as well. Sorry A-B/EuroBeer bought out Rolling Rock.
37 posted on 02/16/2015 7:56:35 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Gail Collins can’t even get propaganda right. Unless she honestly thinks so little of her readers that she thought such a simple lie that Walker was not even governor during those layoffs would be overlooked.


38 posted on 02/16/2015 8:32:24 AM PST by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I think that Gail is jealous of her classmate...

"Walker went to Marquette University in Milwaukee. I went to Marquette, too. Had a great time. Unlike Walker, I got a degree. Only one of us is a governor, so there’s a point for the dropouts right there."
39 posted on 02/16/2015 1:06:43 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Interesting comments...

https://www.facebook.com/GailCollinsReporter/posts/10155241050090204


40 posted on 02/16/2015 1:07:30 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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