After all the years I've spent dealing with the aftermath of NYSlime "stories", I'd very definitely say "Something is very suspicious".
...such as the possibility/damn near certainty that, if the Slime couldn't pull up that quote out of context or by cut-and-paste, they'd just make it up.
OTOH, if things have already gone to the point of involvement of NYSlime in the Damage Control, the excrement has truly impinged on the impeller in somebody’s little world.
I do believe that I’ll start a bowl of popcorn. This could get to be fun.
After all the years I've spent dealing with the aftermath of NYSlime "stories", I'd very definitely say "Something is very suspicious"....such as the possibility/damn near certainty that, if the Slime couldn't pull up that quote out of context or by cut-and-paste, they'd just make it up.
Oh I fully agree with you about that. They're my hometown paper and I respect them so little that I made this graphic for use in threads that reference them ...
... ( Also I made one for the WSJ, another WSJ+Photo and also one for the WaPo. Any FRiends who want to may please feel free to use them at will ).
But having said that, I can't imagine how they could have manufactured that quote from LePage without expecting a sharp rebuke from him and having to make a rare, embarrassing retraction.
I'm genuinely curious about this Governor now, since that quote is less than four weeks ago!