Slogan Revoked

I've been surfing around reading up on Dino Rossi, and I ended up over at WhackyNation, a blog affiliated with Rossi advisor Lou Guzzo. In a post railing against the media for not reporting the good news they share this story:

When in England at a large conference, General Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ‘empire building’ by President Bush. He answered, saying: ‘Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.’ It became very quiet in the room."

I'd like to think that anyone would look at that paragraph and think that something was a bit off-kilter. Colin Powell pwns after being verbally assaulted by the titular head of the Anglican Communion? WTF?

Not our boys over at WhackyNation, though. They threw it up on the blog because the "Bush-hating, anti-war, Liberal press" wasn't going to report it. Damned press.

Trick is, the story's not exactly true. A cursory google for Colin Powell Archbishop Canterbury turns up better than 44,000 hits, the first four of which all offer the context for the quote and how editing has made the exchange something it wasn't.

I was going to let this go, but when your blog tagline is "Exposing political wacks and media hacks", you're inviting a higher standard of scrutiny.