I made a mistake in my Note about Ohio Supreme Court candidates. I alluded to Chief Justice John Roberts of the US Supreme Court and said he decided who would be President in Bush v. Gore. That was wrong, of course. William Rehnquist was Chief Justice at the time. GW Bush appointed John Roberts to the Supreme Court.
Readers pointed out my error. I apologized to those who wrote to me. One wrote back saying not to worry. He reminded me he had written a piece about me and made an error. To another I said one error like that is too many. He wrote back to say he makes more than one error in a morning. I apologize to everyone for my error.
Senator Tom Cotton made a few mistakes in his Op-Ed piece in the NY Times, which was headlined” “Send in the Troops.” He described the violence during the protests as a product of “cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa.” He said that “outnumbered police officers… bore the brunt of the violence.” Both statements were untrue. Lies, even. There won’t be any particular consequence for Tom Cotton about those errors. He certainly will not apologize. He almost certainly will not lose his election in November. Maybe he can be embarrassed by having a smaller than expected margin against his independent opponent.
There was a consequence for James Bennett, the Editorial Page editor of the NY Times who authorized Cotton’s Op Ed. Bennett faced criticism from outside the newspaper and a revolt inside. He resigned.
I won’t resign for my John Roberts error. I will keep writing my Notes, though I am considering introducing some apolitical notes by another writer. I am embarrassed. I apologize again to all of you who read my Notes.