I have a followup to a href="http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2009/07/jack-kelly-sunday_26.html"this morning's posting/a.br /br /First, let me give a shoutout to EdHeath. a href="http://cognitivedissonancepittsburgh.blogspot.com/2009/07/jack-kelly-today.html"HIS/a deconstruction of Jack is worth a read. Some salient points:blockquoteKelly selects some quotes from whatever he read from Vaknin:br /br /• subtly misrepresents facts and expediently and opportunistically shifts positions;br /• ignores data that conflict with his fantasy world;br /• feels that he is above the law;br /• craves to be the exclusive center of attention, andbr /• has a messianic-cosmic vision of himself.br /br /I have to say it was not Obama I thought of when I read those quotes. “Feels he is above the law” – Bush’s theory of a unitary President? “Subtly misrepresents facts” – weapons of mass destruction? “Has a messianic-cosmic vision of himself” - This is a quote from an April 2003 USA Today (maybe an April Fool’s joke): “Bush believes he was called by God to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a close friend who talks with Bush every day.”br //blockquote Great point. I was gonna say that. Really. I was. You gotta believe me.br /br /Now back to Jack. I was going to skewer Jack on his comment about the iPod the President gave to the Queen of England a few months ago but a curious thing happened sometime between yesterday and today.br /br /The column changed.br /br /For those who don't know, Jack Kelly's column is actually published in TWO newspapers. On Sundays, of course, it's found in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. On Saturdays, it's found in the P-G's sister paper, the Toledo Blade.br /br /When I reread Jack's column this evening, I thought something was off - on the iPod part. There was something in it that I didn't remember reading this morning. So I checked a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090725/COLUMNIST14/907250345"the column at the Toledo Blade./a Wanna know what I saw?br /br /This:br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFo2KyjjJbaStMObKCYRiFwSCGHvnbN2GPuvPA2iQl9KdO10oYETnGvQxxnXc2nEgvCvQYN2bJhawdLvkBn36Fbeh242kA9GdVse3D56ghVxXiHnGktRprebGgX86YZri6aH19acsu88/s1600-h/Jack+Rewrite.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 71px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFo2KyjjJbaStMObKCYRiFwSCGHvnbN2GPuvPA2iQl9KdO10oYETnGvQxxnXc2nEgvCvQYN2bJhawdLvkBn36Fbeh242kA9GdVse3D56ghVxXiHnGktRprebGgX86YZri6aH19acsu88/s400/Jack+Rewrite.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362962625020642290" border="0" //aIt reads:blockquoteIf Mr. Obama is a narcissist, it would explain otherwise odd things, such as his notion that an iPod span style="font-weight: bold;"loaded with his speeches/span is an appropriate gift for the Queen of England and his frequent references to himself in virtually all of span style="font-weight: bold;"those/span speeches. [emphasis added]br //blockquoteNow take a look at what's at the P-G now:blockquoteIf Mr. Obama is a narcissist, it would explain otherwise odd things, such as his notion that it was appropriate to include span style="font-weight: bold;"two of his speeches/span on an iPod he gave to the Queen of England and his frequent references to himself in virtually all of span style="font-weight: bold;"his/span speeches. [emphasis added]br //blockquote We can assume that the version in the Toledo Blade is the original one. It's factually incorrect, of course, but it makes more sense. Take a look at the patch in the P-G's version of the column. What was "loaded with his speeches" in Toledo became "two of his speeches" in Pittsburgh. It's obvious that in Jack's original version, he's saying that the speeches loaded onto the iPod were also loaded with references to him.br /br /But what was on the iPod to begin with? a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/what-does-one-g.html"span style="font-style: italic;"On April 1 of this year/span/a, ABC reported that, along with a huge amount of Broadway show tunes, on the iPod, there were also:br /ulliPhotos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit/liliPhotos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit/liliPhotos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit/liliVideo from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit/liliVideo from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit/liliVideo from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit/liliPhotos from President Obama's Inauguration/liliAudio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and/liliAudio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address/li/ulOnly two speeches (goes without saying that Jack initially got the facts wrong) and how does one question the statement "his frequent references to himself in virtually all of his speeches"? What criteria does one use to define "frequent"?br /br /It's a bad patch for a bad mistake.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8213262-4127225301189664356?l=2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com'//div
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