Examiner Corrects Blunt Characterization

The Washington Examiner has issued a correction for the way it characterized Congressman Roy Blunt in a story about Gov. Mark Sanford's sex scandal.

Yesterday, the Examiner wrote this sentence: Roy Blunt, the former House Majority Leader who is now a GOP candidate for governor in Missouri, is no stranger to scandal, having gone through an affair, a public divorce and remarriage under the scrutiny of the press.

A Blunt spokesman called that sentence "incredibly inaccurate."

This morning the Examiner modified its sentence to remove the allegation of an affair.

Here's how the new sentence reads: "Rep. Roy Blunt, the former House Majority Leader who is now a GOP candidate for governor in Missouri, is no stranger to scandal, having gone through a public divorce and remarriage under the scrutiny of the press."

Interestingly enough, the Examiner did NOT correct that Blunt is running for U.S. Senate, not Governor.

Even more curious, that both the Democratic National Congressional Committee and Blunt's office were aggressively urging a Notebook correction. Kind of an odd thing: Blunt's people obviously wanted the correction, while Democrats seemed to be eager to see it gain more attention, even if it involved a mistake.