burmafrd;1623187 said:
And the Daily Turd keeps messing up- or was it deliberate that they left the clarification TO put in later?
Please note the times this stuff was posted...
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POSTED 4:30 p.m. EDT, September 5, 2007
T.O. "CLARIFIES" QUARTERBACK REMARKS
Before Wednesday morning, no one had had much to say about Terrell Owens' decision to identify two NFL quarterbacks that he'd like to have on the team, neither of whom were named "Tony" or "Romo."
On Wednesday morning, we posted a little something about the latest T.O. faux pas (merci, Monsieur Tiki). Coincidentally (or not), Owens was finally asked about the situation on Wednesday.
And, of course, he didn't say what was said that he said.
Instead, T.O. claims that he was told by the interviewer that he couldn't include Tony Romo in Owens' answer to the question in question.
We're not sure we buy it. The question, as posed by Patrick McLeod of Panama City, was this: "If you could choose any quarterback in the NFL to be the No. 1 in Dallas, who would it be and why?" There was no "other than Tony Romo" limitation.
The initial answer was this: "Man, that's a tricky question. I don't want to cause trouble." And this recognition of the dilemma that arose implies that Owens was not asked to exclude Romo from his answer.
Granted, there is an ellipsis after the "I don't want to cause trouble" line. Perhaps the ". . ." was intended to exclude that the person writing down the answer said "other than your current quarterback" in order to keep T.O. talking. But if that was the case, wouldn't the interviewer have included the modification to the question in the final product?
Though we're sure that plenty of writers take unfair liberties, it's far too easy for the subjects of these stories to point a thumb at the person whose fingers hammered out the article. In Owens' case, it shouldn't be surprising. As one reader observed earlier in the day, "In today's world, where you can be misquoted in your own autobiography, inflammatory remarks must have video evidence."
