We cats have noticed that the website POLITICO can be particularly inattentive when it comes to the fine art of editing. Yesterday's piece about Republicans who hate Mitt Romney is just the latest example.
Quoting Michael Graham, a Boston man who's devoted an entire website to his Romneyphobia, POLITICO posted the following: "Together we have signed the AMB Treaty: 'Anyone But Mitt.'"
Now, we cats love it when Republicans attack their plausible front-runner. But what could "AMB" possibly stand for? "A Mormon Bypass"? Certainly not "Anyone But Mitt." Being cats, and consumed by curiosity, we rushed to the anti-Romney site and found that the error was Graham's. But POLITICO should have marked it as such.
But egad, even The New York Times is falling down on the grammar and punctuation job. This morning's paper ran a story about Republican Senator Scott Brown's summer-camp sexual molestation revelation. Actually, the story concerned a series of alleged molestations at the camp (which — you guessed it — is Christian). A counselor accused in the affair recently committed suicide, but the Senator, The Times averred, "had never met the employee who shot himself to death, who was younger than him."
We cats are tired of sloppy editing.
In fact, you might say we're [sic] of it.
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