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The Atlantic's Boldest: A Correction Column

28 Mar 2008 11:29 am

I haven't disclosed my corrections in a while, and I'm feeling a bit guilty.

For this week:

1. I wrote that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg could be the "brass tacts" enforcer of Barack Obama's vision. But gilded politeness was not what I intended to convey. Indeed, the phrase is "brass tacks."

2. Yesterday, I wrote that McCain adviser Charlie Black was taking a "leave of absence" from his lobbying firm. In fact, Black is resinging.

3. In a piece about Barack Obama and Tony McPeak, I mispelled the name of AIPAC critic
and political scientist John Mearsheimer.

Comments (14)

Resinging?

He's quite a baritone.

He's gettin the band back together.

the white man's feet. they smell so bad. and type too fast.

Is Black doing a cover of 'It's Raining McCain'?

Can you have a correction on a correction...? "...Black is resinging"???

You also devoted a post to the Senior Lecturer BS. Might want to issue a correction for that entire post.

Just kidding. Nothing but love Ambers.

We should verb Mearsheimer's name so everyone will have to learn to spell it. He mearsheimered that one. Way to give someone the full mearsheimer. What's the guy known for?

I don't know, but I agree that "mearsheimer" is a perfectly cromulent word.

We forgive you :). Have a nice weekend!

No, really. Please use it.

What spellcheck said.

Encore!

Dan Quayle tells me "misspell" is misspelled.