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You don't want to get stuff wrong, but it happens. but then you correct it and then you can move on. chastened, but clean. that's how it works. and then there's this kind of problem. to which the hair shirt apparently does not fit. we're still waiting to see if there will be some sort of apology, some sort of corrective action concerning the biggest kahuna in all of cable news, a man with any other news organization would be in a fight for his professional life right now. but so far for him, apparently no consequences. cable news controversies are not the sort of thing that usually rise to the...

Also, the fine that duke energy is now paying for one of their giant toxic coal ash lagoons bursting in north carolina, looks like it's not the second largest fine anybody's ever paid under the clean water act. maybe it's the fourth largest? it's hard to find a definitive score for this kind of stuff it turns out. other people have reported that duke is paying the second largest fine here ever. but i think now looking at it again, that they're probably fourth largest and not second largest. in which case i got that wrong, too, i'm sorry. i'm honestly very sorry about that. i regret the error. ...

And correcting the record. so, you know, as much as we beat up on ourselves and the media and rightfully so. when we get stuff wrong, we have a pretty good self-corrective mechanism in this business and a lot of good reporting that told viewers, told leaders what was initially wrong and most from government officials that was passed on. >> for example, "new york times" had done a very good job of this story saying the surviving suspect told fbi interrogators that he and his brother considered suicide attacks and considered striking on the fourth of july. now, i'm not saying that was proven wro...

Proportion of the money raised by dick morris and his super pac, supposedly to defeat barack obama, was actually redirected to dick morris. nowhere does it say the money that was raised ended up going back to dick morris, either for e-mail or any other reasons. but mr. morris's lawyers confirm that news max is the broker, they confirm that the money was paid to news max. they do confirm that what some of that money was for was the donate for the mailing list. but they dispute it was a substantial portion. i do not have evidence it was a substantial portion. so i am happy to correct that part o...

I do not have evidence it was a substantial portion. so i am happy to correct that part of it. when we get stuff wrong i'm happy to make a correction. but on the rest of this stuff? no, when we don't get stuff wrong i will not take it back just because you do not like the way it sounds, even though it is true. and hey, while you don't like the sound of something, sometimes ends up being newsworthy in this case. what we learned in this case, one of the most visible pundits is trying to put distance from himself and the fundraising that he claimed from donors. why is that? and the republican par...