Patterico's Pontifications

3/4/2011

One Rutten Misquote Corrected; One To Go

Filed under: Dog Trainer,General — Patterico @ 7:15 am



Well, they corrected one of Tim Rutten’s misquotations. One!

Political novel: Tim Rutten’s Feb. 2 Op-Ed column about Simon & Schuster’s promotion of the political novel “O” cited two passages it said were from the book, saying they demonstrated the author’s partisanship. Neither passage actually appeared in the book. They were both taken from a parody that appeared on the website of the British newspaper the Guardian.

I would love a more transparent correction, in the form of a Rutten column (or a portion thereof) devoted to explaining this in more detail. Wouldn’t you? Is there anyone who wouldn’t click a link to hear Tim Rutten’s story about how he read a transparent parody and failed to get it? Would you pass on his explanation of how he read shocking quotes in that parody that purported to be from a book he had “reviewed” days earlier, quoted those parodic words in a follow-up piece about the book . . . but somehow failed to notice that the quotes weren’t really in the book?

Tim, you can bring a lot of eyeballs to the site by laying this all out, baby. Plus, it would be a little more forthright than hiding behind this plain vanilla correction.

Also, Tim: your other quote-that-wasn’t-a-quote remains uncorrected. Get on that, would you? If not, I’m going to have to get on it for you.

5 Responses to “One Rutten Misquote Corrected; One To Go”

  1. Was it Rutten who once bragged about the five, or whatever, layers of editors at the LA Times? Most times when I read a Rutten column I can reliably conclude that the opposite is probably true. He’s occasionally on to some thing like a stopped clock is correct twice a day, but that’s about it. I typically view him as a waste of ink and electrons.

    MikeHu (6451eb) — 3/4/2011 @ 10:59 am

  2. A link to the original post about this error would be helpful.

    aunursa (a2a019) — 3/4/2011 @ 11:13 am

  3. aunursa

    here’s the link.

    https://patterico.com/2011/03/01/tim-rutten-needs-to-learn-how-to-quote-accurately-2/

    patterico might add it to the post later.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 3/4/2011 @ 1:02 pm

  4. plain vanilla is actually an oxymoron cause of vanilla is actually very complex and wonderful

    here for to read

    Vanilla is actually still a luxury item. It’s the second most expensive spice after saffron. People don’t realize this because crafty scientists have found a way to extract vanillin, a crappy, second-rate imitation vanilla flavor which costs food companies a fraction of the price to put in their products. Now 90-97 percent of vanilla-flavored products in the US use this synthetic flavoring instead of the real thing.

    it’s an accident of our peculiarly American history what we have in America cause of stuff what happened in our past that vanilla is considered plain

    So while I’ve come to enjoy chocolate, especially when paired with oranges, I take personal offense to the way people throw out the word vanilla to mean plain or bland. There’s no pejorative use for chocolate. Why don’t we use it to describe things that are indulgent or things which make kids go nuts? I’ll tell you why. Thomas “I Ruined Vanilla’s Reputation For All Eternity” Jefferson.

    That’s right. I have found another reason to reexamine the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. It turns out that the man was really up to no good at Monticello. In addition to dubious relations with staff, he imported vanilla beans from France. But instead of making the popular, luxurious, fragrant French pastries which showcased vanilla, he made vanilla ice cream. To make matters worse, ice cream in Colonial America was apparently chock full of add-ins like nuts and fruits, so people looked at vanilla as a boring base flavor. It became plain ice cream.

    happyfeet (ab5779) — 3/4/2011 @ 7:07 pm

  5. The reason vanilla is so common and “boring” is because it’s so delicious. If it weren’t then it wouldn’t be so common. And artificial vanillin isn’t really crappy, except when compared to the real thing. If you never tasted real vanilla, you’d think vanillin was wonderful. Oh, and by the way, turmeric is a reasonable substitute for saffron — it may not taste anywhere near as great, but it’s pretty and it’s good for you.

    Milhouse (ea66e3) — 3/5/2011 @ 10:42 pm


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