Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue Jul 1, 2008 at 9:14 AM Pacific

They must not have gotten their doughnuts

From First Read:

The Obama campaign says the AP's first report this morning that Obama supports "their [faith-based organizations'] ability to hire and fire based on faith" is incorrect. In fact, Obama's plan, they say, would prevent organizations from discriminating based on faith.

Note: The second version of AP story says Obama would support "some ability to hire and fire based on faith."

The change is of one word, from "their" to "some."

But the campaign says the second version is still inaccurate.

Pretty amazing that the AP is still insisting on being wrong, especially on such an important element of Obama's new faith-based policy, from both a substantive and political level. Oh well -- I guess there's no point in being surprised at things like that.

(On a side note, I'm going to step away from the computer for a few hours...hopefully peace will break out across the blogosphere by the time I get back! In meantime, feel free to use this as an open thread, but lay off the doughnuts!)

They must not have gotten their doughnuts

From First Read:

The Obama campaign says the AP's first report this morning that Obama supports "their [faith-based organizations'] ability to hire and fire based on faith" is incorrect. In fact, Obama's plan, they say, would prevent organizations from discriminating based on faith.

Note: The second version of AP story says Obama would support "some ability to hire and fire based on faith."

The change is of one word, from "their" to "some."

But the campaign says the second version is still inaccurate.

Pretty amazing that the AP is still insisting on being wrong, especially on such an important element of Obama's new faith-based policy, from both a substantive and political level. Oh well -- I guess there's no point in being surprised at things like that.

(On a side note, I'm going to step away from the computer for a few hours...hopefully peace will break out across the blogosphere by the time I get back! In meantime, feel free to use this as an open thread, but lay off the doughnuts!)

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