So Mad He Can't Blog Straight
Matt Yglesias is mad. He can't even give the blogs credit for breaking the RatherGate memo story. Of course, since Matt is now a member of the Old Media, he's got to defend the institutions that put food on the table.
So read this post from Matt's blog and tell me what's wrong:
"If I do a post tomorrow claiming -- utterly without evidence -- that John Ashcroft is a closeted homosexual and then two weeks later a New York Times reporter unearths (non-forged) photos of Ashcroft with his gay lover, did I 'break' the Gay Ashcroft story? Know, I didn't. I was just engaging in a little speculation driven by my partisan prejudices (I don't like Ashcroft) and a random bit of folk wisdom holding that strongly anti-gay folks are often closeted gays. "
Did you catch it? Instead of saying "No, I didn't," he writes "Know, I didn't."
This is a perfectly normal usage error, and for any blogger at home in his pajamas, I'd let it go. HOWEVER, Matt is a professional journalist and was the editor-in-chief of a weekly magazine at Harvard.
He should know (correct usage) better than to blog out of anger.