May 28, 2007 • 3:45 pm 0
Ya gotta love it.
I rarely agree with Leonard Pitts, one of the stalwarts of the Miami Herald editorial page (and occasionally printed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel where I saw it Friday), but in talking about the Jimmy Carter and Clinton Portis gaffes (among others), he wrote,
“I guess there’s a reason I didn’t end up a publicist. See, if I represented Carter or Portis, my instinct would have been to issue a statement on their behalf that read, ‘In a recent interview, I accidentally said exactly what I meant and I’d like to take it back because I didn’t anticipate the controversy and I don’t need the headache.’”
‘Zactly.
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