A Typo of Biblical Proportions
Yesterday, I wrote a story about some highlights from Mike Huckabee's new book, "Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back To America." I quoted Huckabee commenting on what he saw as misplaced priorities among some social conservatives. "I lamented that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices — like Naaman, confronting King David in his sin and saying, 'Thou art the man!' — to being voices of patronage, and saying to those in power, 'You da' man!' " Huckabee wrote.
As a couple of bloggers have since pointed out, Huckabee made an error in that sentence. It was Nathan, not Naaman, who confronted King David. Naaman, on the other hand, was a great Syrian Army captain who suffered from leprosy. (If only I had spent more time on the campaign trail putting down my BlackBerry and cracking open my hotel Gideon, I might have caught this. Alas.)
UPDATE: A Huckabee aide tells me that the mistake has been fixed for subsequent printings of the book.
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"THOU art the man."
#@$% Biblical typos... -
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What Joe said!
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Since this appears to be a thread about journalistic errors, I'll add this one. In the NYT today, they have a feature story titled "Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs." It's all about "a new kind of Web-based news operation . . . offering a brand of serious, original reporting by professional journalists. . . . Their news coverage and hard-digging investigative reporting stand out in an Internet landscape long dominated by partisan commentary, gossip, vitriol and citizen journalism posted by unpaid amateurs."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/media/18voice.html?hp
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It acts like this is really new, and utterly ignores sites like TPM that have been doing serious investigative journalism for years. Just ask Jay Carney. -
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Since this appears to be a thread about journalistic errors,
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No, this isn't MS's fault. It's the fault of Huckabee and his editors. -
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If only I had spent more time on the campaign trail putting down my BlackBerry and cracking open my hotel Gideon, I might have caught this.
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Are you trying to get on Amy Sullivan's good side? -
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thou (a typo that has since been corrected in this post) was my fault. Naaman is Huckabee's fault, and harder to fix, since the books have already been printed.
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MS in your photo in the sidebar: is that a Huckabee campaign poster in the background? Why is it there?
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Yes, it's a Huckabee poster. That photo was taken by a Time photographer when I was covering Huckabee in New Hampshire. It's not an endorsement.
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I was just curious, that photo has been there forever, MS. I know it's not an endorsement.
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MS, which book do you think has greater literary merit and moral weight? The Bible, or Infinite Jest?
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Elvis, The bible. Truth be told, though, I have never finished reading either one. I did just finish reading James Crumley's hippie noir masterpiece, a dark mess of a great read, called The Last Good Kiss. I recommend it to all, with the full expectation that some commenter will find in it more evidence of my (mythical) affection for John McCain. Ha.
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Hahahaha.
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This stuff kills me. Getting the details of things that aren't true, or real, but have been written down, right.
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It was like reading the piece in the WSJ over the weekend about the guy in Germany who was questioning the existence of an actual guy named Mohamed. Some other academic guy noted that the evidence for an actual guy named Jesus was a heckuva lot more tenuous, so the Mohamed thing was looking pretty good to him.
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Low bar, I said to myself. And it doesn't matter, really, because there are any number of details, like God coming down and dictating the thing to him that is obviously not true. There are so many details attributed to the figure that are clearly false that it doesn't really matter if the guy was a guy or is a composite of a guy, or whether there is some guy that one could generally say was the guy to whom (thanks KO, caught that trialing preposition) they attribute all this not true stuff.
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And then I mentioned this to someone else, and SHE said "Low bar on the Jesus thing? Where's the God evidence? Any of it?" -
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Too many typos. But I don't have preview, so that's an excuse.
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Thanks for the reply, Michael! I was trying to further the discussion, but that was rather a Colbertesque way to do so...
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" .. of Biblical Proportions"
I winder:
Is that supposed to be less evil than that 'of Bhagavad-Gita proportions'
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