A grave and stupid mistake of mine

[fpb]

I just deleted the last post before this one, after being informed that it amounted to a grave mistake. I misunderstood a satirical imitation for an original statement. If it were to matter a damn, I would offer my apologies to Barrack Obama and Tom Harkin, and if anyone wants them, they have them.

The most important thing, however, is to avoid one of those damned chains of misinformation that the Internet makes so easy. The worst thing that could happen is that, in two months' time, someone's blog were to reprint my gross mistake as a genuine piece of information about Senators Obama and Harkin. So, if anyone has saved my most recent post (the one about Senators Harkin and Obama) and took it for serious information, PLEASE PLEASE delete it. It was wrong. It was yours truly failing his own duty as a historian, not following a quote to its source, and so finding that a piece of satire never meant as anything but satire was published as real. I have kept a screencap for my own information and thanked the person who informed me of my mistake, but I beg any reader of this blog to make sure that the false quotation does not enter circulation as a true one, because once it does, it would be the Devil's own business to take it out again.

Comments

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Not being familiar at all with the statement apart from seeing it here (and, therefore, reading it in a straightforward way), I was curious as to whether you'd posted it because it seemed insightful or because it struck you as silly.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Because it seemed insightful.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I thought (again, believing I was supposed to take it seriously) that it was a great example of politics in this grand and glorious nation of mine. On odd days, you're bad (a turncoat, a Judas, or just wishy-washy) if you've ever changed your stance, and on even days, there's something wrong with you if you've never done so. Thus, I figured yesterday was an even day.