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<blockquote data-quote="ImWaitingForTheDay" data-source="post: 1541911" data-attributes="member: 48031">Update: John Hawkins, the &quot;Right Wing News&quot; editor who published the interview in question with Scott Walker, <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/misc/correction-scott-walker-didnt-say-he-voted-for-reagan/" target="_blank">is now saying</a> he reported Walker&#039;s statement incorrectly because of an error by his transcriptionist.&nbsp; He now claims that Walker said, &quot;A vote for Ronald Reagan meant limited government, you know, smaller government, lower taxes...&quot; and included a short video clip that begins with the quote, somewhat truncated.&quot;[A]n excerpt from that interview which seemed insignificant at the time that has gotten a lot of attention from liberal blogs today,&quot; Hawkins <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/misc/correction-scott-walker-didnt-say-he-voted-for-reagan/" target="_blank">wrote</a>, by way of explaining why he was double-checking the tape of his already-published interview with the governor just now.It&#039;s impossible to tell what was said before that point in the audio clip and weird that Hawkins omitted it. His <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/an-interview-with-scott-walker/" target="_blank">original transcript and story</a> remain uncorrected. The Walker administration never offered any comment, not even to say that the governor had been misquoted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ImWaitingForTheDay, post: 1541911, member: 48031"] [B]Update:[/B] John Hawkins, the "Right Wing News" editor who published the interview in question with Scott Walker, [URL='http://www.rightwingnews.com/misc/correction-scott-walker-didnt-say-he-voted-for-reagan/']is now saying[/URL] he reported Walker's statement incorrectly because of an error by his transcriptionist. He now claims that Walker said, "A vote for Ronald Reagan meant limited government, you know, smaller government, lower taxes..." and included a short video clip that begins with the quote, somewhat truncated. "[A]n excerpt from that interview which seemed insignificant at the time that has gotten a lot of attention from liberal blogs today," Hawkins [URL='http://www.rightwingnews.com/misc/correction-scott-walker-didnt-say-he-voted-for-reagan/']wrote[/URL], by way of explaining why he was double-checking the tape of his already-published interview with the governor just now. [B]It's impossible to tell what was said before that point in the audio clip and weird that Hawkins omitted it. His [URL='http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/an-interview-with-scott-walker/']original transcript and story[/URL] remain uncorrected. The Walker administration never offered any comment, not even to say that the governor had been misquoted.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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