• May 27, 2012

corrections

In the story “Jerry Brown To Washington Times Reporter: ‘Are You a Moonie?’” we referred to idiot reporter Kerry Picket as him, he, his, etc. We are sorry to report that Kerry Picket is in fact a woman. This shames us all — all women, that is, as Picket’s tete-a-tete avec Governor Brown was the [...]

Krauthammer has a correction to make: Not even Democrats are that stupid. The remaining question is whether they are just stupid enough to not understand – and therefore vote down – the swindle of the year just pulled off by their own president. n The six German saboteurs referred to in my last column were [...]

by Josh Fruhlinger  8:55 am June 23, 2010

ALSO WE CALLED HER A ‘CONTEMPTIBLE TRAMP,’ BUT OUR STYLE GUIDE PREFERS ‘BRAZEN HUSSY’: “A preview of the Republican primary for governor in South Carolina in the June 6 A-section incorrectly said that ‘several men’ have alleged that one of the candidates, state Rep. Nikki Haley, committed adultery in affairs with them. Two men have [...]

Unfortunately the U.S. military had already invaded Public Enemy by the time of this correction. [Washington Post]

Man, are we embarrassed. We have no excuse and can only hope that you accept our apology. In a previous Wonkette post about a b-list columnist’s take on the important issue of our time, we incorrectly referred to health care reform as, in part, a “moral” issue, for everyone. Had we done our research, we [...]

by Jim Newell  3:34 pm August 21, 2009

L.A. TIMES TEEVEE LISTINGS COPY EDITOR TO BE ‘WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD’ EVERY NIGHT FOR THE NEXT YEAR: A correction from the print edition of today’s Los Angeles Times: “FOR THE RECORD: TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s ‘Jackass’ show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 [...]

Poor Joe Biden has spent his entire term as vice president being privately rebuked and publicly corrected by his boss. Every time Biden gives an interview, Obama comes out a couple days later and says, “I stand behind everything Joe said, except just to clarify, he meant the opposite,” and Biden has to sit in [...]

There are many terrible jobs to be had at the Democratic National Convention: the trash Nazis who patrol the garbage cans making sure recyclables don’t get tossed into the forbidden “landfill” bin; the elevator operators trapped in plywood-lined boxes eight hours a day pushing buttons for angry media people; and the pitiable youngsters stuck managing [...]

Our Proudest Moment

by Alex Pareene  12:30 pm June 4, 2007

We Fucked Up

by Alex Pareene  3:35 pm September 28, 2006