FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T HEARD IT: The Bill O’Reilly interview with Terry Gross is here. At least one Patterico reader has heard it and believes that the interview was unfair — a position agreed with by the NPR ombudsman.

RICHARD POSNER TO BE INTERVIEWED IN HOWARD BASHMAN’S “20 QUESTIONS FOR THE APPELLATE JUDGE” FEATURE: Read about it here. I am looking forward to December.

KEYWORDS ARKIN, XRLQ, MISQUOTATION, HUGH HEWITT, PATTERICO, AND LILEKS: Xrlq says of the Arkin misquotation controversy:

Critics of Arkin, including Hugh Hewitt, Patterico and Lileks, have been quick to pounce on the fact that Arkin put quotation marks around the word jihad, despite the fact that Boykin had (obviously) never used that word himself.

Now, the main reason I excerpt that quote is because I just love seeing in print the phrase “Hugh Hewitt, Patterico and Lileks.”

Still, I feel I must unfortunately express rare disagreement with my respected blogging colleague Xrlq. It seems to me that many people unfamiliar with the whole Boykin controversy might have been misled by the quotation marks. Arkin devoted an entire column to criticizing the way that Boykin expressed himself. In this context, it seems to me (and Hugh Hewitt and Lileks!) that Arkin had a special responsibility to make sure that words within quotation marks, which refer to Boykin’s alleged beliefs, reflect things that Boykin actually said.

We’ve all seen roadside billboards that read something like this:

Exit 203, in 35 miles: Annie’s Roadside “Cafe” featuring Annie’s “fresh” apple “pie”!

My suggestion: Arkin should be “fired” from the Dog Trainer, and should be put to work creating these sorts of roadside billboards with superfluous quotation “marks” that mean “nothing.”

The only good thing about the Los Angeles Dog Trainer is cartoonist Michael Ramirez. Today he scores with this cartoon about partial-birth abortion.

VOLOKH ON JANICE ROGERS BROWN: Don’t miss Eugene Volokh’s explanation of how “People for the American Way” misrepresented basic facts about Janice Rogers Brown’s record, in their bogus press release opposing her nomination.

Today in the Weekly Standard, Hugh Hewitt asks: Who Is William Arkin? The short answer is that he is the guy who said General Boykin “believes in Christian ‘jihad’” — putting “jihad” in quotes, although he admits the general never used that word.

We are still waiting for a correction from the Los Angeles Dog Trainer, which printed this misquotation. Meanwhile, this far more important correction was reported in this morning’s Dog Trainer:

Leather price — A caption accompanying the Wanted column in last Thursday’s Home section incorrectly stated that a leather hide embossed with a crocodile pattern costs $440 a yard at Michael Levine fabric store in downtown Los Angeles. The price is for a hide that is about 55 square feet.

Thank God that’s been cleared up.