I expect better from NPR's news reporting staff.
In his most recent speech, Mr. Obama claimed that Abraham Lincoln founded the GOP. He didn't. He joined the GOP two years after it the first convention.
Not a huge gaffe in the larger scheme of things. But similar, inconsequential gaffes have been committed...and sometimes were not committed but where inferred by the media....by contenders within the GOP and resulted in all sorts of tongue clicking, tsking, and other forms of disapproval by the media.
In this case? NPR simply omits the gaffe from their transcript.
But let's not get sidetracked by issues of media bias. I am 100% certain that the media has no way of influencing any portion of the electorate.
Sure. Right.
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