Ramesh Ponnuru points out:
Tom Brokaw said to Sen. Biden yesterday, “When Barack Obama appeared before Rick Warren, he was asked a simple question: When does life begin? And he said at that time that it was above his pay grade. That was the essence of his question.” No, it wasn’t, and I wish people would stop getting this wrong. Warren’s question was pretty well formulated so that it could not be answered with the usual who-knows-when-life-begins claptrap. Warren asked, “At what point does a baby get human rights in your view?”
Brokaw’s version of Warren’s question was a vague and theological, and to it Obama’s “above my pay grade” answer would be a standard, weasely response. The real question was a legal one, and Obama’s answer made no sense at all. (Most likely, Obama came prepared with to answer an abortion question, and didn’t consider that his answer failed to fit the question.)
For some reason, the media’s “errors” always lean the same direction.
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