Peter Schweizer's
long history of retractions and corrections just got a little longer. Everyone who bought his
Clinton Cash book on Kindle got
an email from Amazon on Tuesday:
“An updated version of your past Kindle purchase … is now available,” reads the email. “The updated version contains the following changes: Significant revisions have been made.”
What changes? Significant ones. Seven or eight factual corrections, according to Schweizer's publisher, which apparently did not bother keeping track of the number of corrections being made to its aggressively marketed anti-Clinton book.
According to Politico, the changes include removing the citation to a hoax press release to back up Keystone XL accusations and the claim that Bill Clinton was paid for a series of speeches in a quid pro quo with an Irish company when in reality he was not paid for the speeches. Little stuff like that, you know. Totally routine, according to publisher HarperCollins.
Question: Will the New York Times and Washington Post be basing their future reporting on the corrected version of the book, or the original?