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Lynn Sweet on the Landstuhl Controversy

11:03 PM, Jul 29, 2008 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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The Chicago Sun-Times's Lynn Sweet wrote in a blog post on Friday, July 25:

Though the Rammstein visit had been planned for days, Obama senior strategist David Axelrod said that that Pentagon notified an Obama military advisor only yesterday or the day before that he should not come. The Pentagon "viewed this as a campaign event and therefore they said he should not come," Axelrod said.

Tonight Sweet writes that she rewrote that paragraph "to eliminate an Axelrod quote that I misunderstood." She does not explain how she "misunderstood" the Axelrod quote, which appears to be pretty straightforward. Was the wording inaccurate, or was it somehow taken out of context?

Sweet could have made an honest mistake, but as it stands there's no way to know for sure that Axelrod didn't spin her.

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