It was posted just past midnight yesterday, August 4, 2011, at 12:15 a.m., and it misattributed the day that Rush Limbaugh said those words as "today," which would have been Wednesday, August 3, the day before the article was posted. ❋ Terry Krepel (2011)
The irony of a Pakistani atrocity being briefly misattributed as an Indian one only underscores the fact that when it comes to the everyday operationalization of state terror, the security apparatuses of India and Pakistan aspire to the same low standards, which make it quite possible for those seeking to score a few cheap propaganda points on either side to - deliberately or otherwise - confuse one perpetrator for another. ❋ Ethan Casey (2012)
T he Dec. 15 editorial "Regulation for Dummies" misattributed an analysis of the Federal Register under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Note: It was actually Max Reger who wrote this, but it is often misattributed to Churchill, Shaw, and Wilde, just like every other bit of snark uttered between 1860 and 1940. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with department policy, noted that European health authorities have misattributed the source of E. coli outbreaks in the past. ❋ Associated Press (2011)
After Algur Meadows, the head of an oil company and noted collector of European paintings, donated his collection of Spanish art to Southern Methodist University in Dallas in the 1960s toward the creation of a museum, it was discovered that almost all of the works by the most important artists were badly misattributed or outright fakes. ❋ Daniel Grant (2010)
Day Break: @Randy You misattributed this quote tome: ❋ Unknown (2010)
There's a huge difference between anonymous/pseudonymous speech and misattributed speech; this is only made more complex if one considers the researchers to be merely "ratifying" the anonymous/pseudonymous speech. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
Correction: An earlier version of this item misattributed the quote from a senior Senate Democratic aide to Jared Bernstein. ❋ Stephen Moore (2011)
Lawrence Lessig created this confusion in the first place, and now people who are relinquishing their privilege to demand attribution will assume they are also relinquishing the right not to be misattributed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Loelia Ponsonby, one of the wives of the second Duke of Westminster – you remember her – once said, in a quote often misattributed to Margaret Thatcher: "Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life." ❋ Unknown (2011)
The Dec. 15 editorial "Regulation for Dummies" misattributed an analysis of the Federal Register under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Comments released to a parliamentary committee this week about Afghanistan's Khandahar prison that the facility seemed "to be in reasonably good condition" and that inmates got "enough food" were misattributed to Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This column has been error-free for days, maybe even weeks—knock on wood—but I continue to reel I reel easily from a piece I wrote on Nov. 1 about the Statue of Liberty in which I misattributed to Emma Goldman the famous quote at the monument, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2012)
On the other side of the political aisle, District 18 hopeful Karen Cullen is so outraged by an Accountability for Colorado mailer that allegedly misattributed information that she is asking the district attorney to investigate, according to a report this week in the Colorado Springs Gazette. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A quote misattributed to the wrong ancient Greek philosopher? ❋ Unknown (2010)
"[the professor] misattributed Robert [Burn's] famous line to [Shakespeare]" ❋ Small Bump (2017)
[Uther] if you misattribute again I'm [reporting] you for [throwing] ❋ Jainaproudmore (2018)
