Will Bunch: "Lately, there's been a lot of controversy about political figures altering and omitting quotes from past articles. Case in point: T
June 8, 2006

Will Bunch:

"Lately, there's been a lot of controversy about political figures altering and omitting quotes from past articles. Case in point: The recent flap over new White House domestic policy czar Karl Zinsmeister (we do we picture Rob Schneider "making copies" every time we see that name?), who altered quotes in a profile written about him and reposted the changed version on the website of his own magazine.

Now, why is Sen. Rick Santorum doing some creative editing as he adapts his 2005 book, "It Takes a Family," to an audio version? Today, the rival Bob Casey Jr. campaign caught an alteration on one of the book's most controversial passages, the one where the Pennsylvania GOP senator decries the "weird socialization" that he believes that children get in public schools....read on"

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