Reply #19: Hatfield Had a Problem With Quote Attribution

[DoveTurnedHawk]

I saw the movie "Horns and Halos" (great movie, btw). Out of (I think) 18 quotes selected at random, 6 from anti-Bush people, 6 from neutral people, 6 from pro-Bush people, the majority were apparently denied by their supposed makers.

Additionally, there was often a problem of improper attribution. Something like this:

"Bush was drunk," and often snorted cocaine, Miss Muffett said. MM might have said the part actually in quotes, but she didn't say the editorialized/paraphrased part after that...despite the fact that it appears she signed off on the entire sentence.

Those types of problems make me suspect the veracity of the book (although I fully admit I haven't read it...I am going off of reports from H&H).

DTH