By: E&P Staff Eight paragraphs into his new stint as a New York Times op-ed columnist, William Kristol, it turns out, has already made an embarrassing error.
His column, which suggests that the Democrats not underestimate Mike Huckabee's chances to win it all, includes a paragraph just past the midway point, in which he quotes the "conservative writer Michelle Malkin" as saying, "For the work-hard-to-get-ahead strivers who represent the heart and soul of the G.O.P., there are obvious, powerful points of identification.?
There's just one problem: She never said or wrote it, as she was quick to point out herself on her michellemalkin.com site: "Since I never usually appear on the New York Times op-ed page unless someone?s calling me a fascist, I was pleasantly surprised to see the quote. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I didn?t write what Kristol attributed to me. A different MM ? Michael Medved ? was the author."
She then links to a Medved column from Jan. 2 at townhall.com.
Several long hours passed before Malkin was changed to Medved in the column at www.nytimes.com, with a note at the bottom of the column disclosing the original error.
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