AP typo labels Sen. Lieberman a “prick”

Just over two weeks after it moved an unfortunate report about Robert Novak’s retirement, AP has delivered another notable typo.

In a story about Obama’s plans for a vice presidential pick, AP noted that McCain was considering Sen. Joe Lieberman, “the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.” (Emphasis added.) Oh dear. Here’s a screen shot of the text from the story as it appears in Google News:

And here are some of the news orgs and websites that ran the typo:

Thanks, Rick!

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on August 19, 2008 at 9:32 am, filed under Wire service and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Tybalt
    Posted August 19, 2008 at 10:09 am | Permalink

    I have to admit, I don’t see the typo.

  2. Fred Fnord
    Posted August 19, 2008 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    Easy. Tybalt: the story claimed that he was ‘vice presidential’.

    -fred

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