Capitol Fax catches Washington Post error

November 5, 2009
By Billy Dennis

You know how moderate U.S. Senate  candidate Mark Kirk supposedly asked Sarah Palin for an endorsement. Rick Miller discovered it never happened:

I probably should’ve known better than to believe the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza yesterday when he wrote…

Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk penned a memo to Republican poobah Fred Malek hoping to secure an endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his Senate candidacy, according to a copy of the memo obtained by the Fix.

If Cillizza really did see the memo, as he claimed, then he would’ve known that nowhere in that memo does Congressman Kirk explicitly ask for an endorsement. How do I know this? Because I now have the memo…

Miller thinks Kirk was still pandering, but he never asked for Palin’s endorsement. The result?

WaPo’s Cillizza is now on my “always check him out first” list.

Ouch.

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2 Responses to “ Capitol Fax catches Washington Post error ”

  1. 11bravo on November 5, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Kirk isn’t a guv candidate, he’s running for US Senate.

  2. Billy Dennis on November 5, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    Thanks for the catch.