Yep. That deceptive quote you first read about here is now being looked into by the Times. Let’s see if they make her run her own correction. (And, no, running a correct version of the quote in a subsequent column is not a correction. It’s a pathetic ruse to avoid responsibility for a simple and deliberate lie.)
GELDOF ON BUSH: Finally someone says it who might get taken seriously by the usual suspects. On AIDS, president Bush’s commitment simply out-classes Bill Clinton’s. By a mile. So too does his actual commitment to Africa, for all Clinton’s grandstanding. Here’s Bob Geldof on the current president: “You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.” Another great quote from a British AIDS activist: “Clinton talked the talk and did diddly squat, whereas Bush doesn’t talk, but does deliver.” Therein the precise difference between this administration and the last.
The Dish 