Corrections & Amplifications

We do our best to be fair and tell it like it is. Despite our best efforts, sometimes we mess up. In other cases, reportage on which our commentary is based is erroneous. When we discover or are otherwise made aware of factual misstatements, we correct the offending post and disclose the errors here in reverse chronological order, most recent first. We extend our apology here, once for all.

January 14, 2008 – Blacks and Mormonism: Back Atcha, Jason Riley!

In my original post, I took Jason Riley to task for misleadingly referring to “just released” Mormon America as proof that, today, “Mormon teaching against race-mixing remains in force.” This is a complicated correction, so you might want to just read the entire corrected post instead of plowing through this snippet. But, for the record, the reason for this correction is that Riley actually used the phrase “just re-released,” not “just released.”

But even in this, Riley was misleading. First, there never was a Mormon doctrine prohibiting “race-mixing,” however this term is interpreted. Further, though it may be technically true that Mormon America was just “re-released,” it appears not to have been updated in any way since it’s original 1999 publication. Riley thus appears to be suggesting, contrary to fact, that the book is more up to date because of its “re-release”. See what I mean? You’re better off just reading the post.

June 11, 2008 - Muslim Donors to a Christian Candidate?

In the original post, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was erroneously identified as a “card-carrying Communist.” The author meant to pin that label on W.E. DuBois, not Wright. I guess you could say “Wright was wrong”.