This is a good one. Political candidates are now fact-checking each other's blogs. WCBS-TV in New York reports that NYC Mayor Bloomberg's campaign office cried foul over one of his opponent's blog posts.
The Bloomberg camp caught an embarrassing error on democratic candidate Fernando Ferrer's campaign blog. In a September 5th entry on his blog, Ferrer wrote “I was born in the South Bronx and educated in public schools for most of my education.” The Bloomberg campaign reminded Ferrer that he attended Catholic Schools through 12th grade and then went to NYU. The Ferrer campaign removed the line and apologized.
Here's the line of the day, “a spokesman blamed an unnamed staffer for crafting it, based on Ferrer's dictation.” For one, I guess if Ferrer were podcasting this wouldn't have happened. Two, maybe Ferrer should ask his new buddy Howard Dean for some blogging lessons! Boy am I glad New York has a blog-savvy mayor. Whew.
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