SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - In an Aug. 7 story on President Barack Obama's comments on the need to deepen U.S. harbors, The Associated Press wrongly inserted an interpretive phrase in parentheses into a quote by Obama:Wipe your chin.
"If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf - (and in) places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla. - if we don't do that, these ships are going to go someplace else and we'll lose jobs," Obama said.
Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville are not Gulf ports. It wasn't known if the president was suggesting they were. The AP should not have added the phrase in an effort to clarify his statement.
Thursday, August 08, 2013
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A moment of clarity from the Associated Press:
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Isn't our 57th state located near the Gulf of Mexico?
Well, we already knew that The Won's prestigious education didn't include economics, so why should we assume it would have included geography?
Or, for that matter, the prestigious educations of his staff?
I'm wondering how big, by the way, the locks are going to be when the Chinese build a rival to the Panama Canal. Swap out thousand foot locks for 1200 or 1400', and you've got a revolution in shipbuilding coming. Still doesn't dredge out the Straits of Malacca, but interesting thought....
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