Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy work at the NY Times

Your liberal media at work, this time courtesy of Anne Kornblut. She wrote:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, returning to her red-state ties, chastised Democrats Saturday for taking on issues that arouse conservatives and turn out Republican voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects.

Without mentioning specific subjects like gay marriage, Mrs. Clinton said: "We do things that are controversial. We do things that try to inflame their base."

Only problem, Clinton's "we" was referring to the Republican-controlled Senate. From the transcript which I received via email:

Wouldn't this be a good agenda for America: safeguard America's pensions; good jobs for Americans; make college affordable for all; protect America and our military families; prepare for future disasters; make America energy independent; make small business and healthcare affordable, invest in life saving science; and protect our air, land, and water.

You know, Blanche Lincoln has a bill to make healthcare affordable for small business, I have a bill I was talking to you about with respect to energy independence, we have legislation sitting in the Senate to address these problems.

But with the Republican majority, that's not their priority. So we do other things, we do things that are controversial, we do things that try to inflame their base so that they can turn people out and vote for their candidates. I think we are wasting time, we are wasting lives, we need to get back to making America work again, in a bipartisan, nonpartisan way."

Now, every other reporter covering this event got it right, but not Anne Kornblut.

Standards are really slipping at that joint.

Update: Apologies to McJoan, I missed her earlier post on this. And that one was much better than mine. Much, much better. Kornblut has quite the history of mangled reporting.