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Obama adviser quits over “off the record” remark

If you can’t trust a journo, who can you trust?  OK, pretty much everybody before a journo.  But I digress.  From Breitbart:

A Barack Obama adviser resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton “a monster.”

Samantha Power, an unpaid foreign policy adviser and Harvard professor, announced her resignation in a statement provided by the Obama campaign in which she expressed “deep regret.”

“Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor and purpose of the Obama campaign,” she said. “And I extend my deepest apologies to Senator Clinton, Senator Obama and the remarkable team I have worked with over these long 14 months.”

Power’s interview Monday was published Friday in a Scottish newspaper, even though she tried to keep it from appearing in print.

“She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything,” The Scotsman quoted her as saying.

Obviously it was not off the record.  Power just learned the hard way that (a) truth can get you into trouble; and (b) when it comes to the MSM, “off the record” means “it’s gonna be in black and white!”  Welcome to our world, lefties!

March 7, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hillary, Obama