Thursday, March 20, 2008

Wait, why would I make my tax returns public?

A reporter at an Ohio paper called the Tribune Chronicle accidentally quoted a PR lady as Hillary Clinton because the woman answered the phone at a local congressman's office, saying, "This is Hillary."

The Tribune Chronicle published a correction yesterday saying:
Reporter John Goodall, who was assigned to the story, spoke by telephone with Hillary Wicai Viers, who is a communications director in U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson’s staff. According to the reporter, when Viers answered the phone with ‘‘This is Hillary,’’ he believed he was speaking with the Democratic presidential candidate, who had made several previous visits to the Mahoning Valley.
You can find the full story, which the paper pulled from its Web site, through Google's cache here.

Clinton was apparently in Washington when this guy thought he was talking to her in Ohio.

And the guy apparently never asked a question relating to her chances at the nomination... unless he was under the impression that Hillary Clinton speaks in the third person...

But I mean, seriously, who wouldn't assume that Hillary Clinton would be answering the phone at a random congressman's office after that congressman's state had already held its primary?

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