R. G. Ratcliffe got sucked into some very sloppy journalism (Hal at Half-Empty is thinking summer school might be in R.G.'s future).
I confess I was taken aback by the out of context quoting myself. I should have known better. R.G., while he honored my request to use my pseudonym instead of my given name in the story, got the basic fact of my byline wrong (points upward).
While R.G. is generally too addicted to horserace political analysis for my taste, he's usually a fairly reliable reporter. For example, he's the one who broke last week's story about Mikal Watts bragging (or pretending) his campaign contributions to an appellate court would make it more receptive to his legal arguments.
But what R.G. let himself be snookered into by Jason Stanford really takes the journalistic cake.
