Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes

jamie writes "In a story on Thursday, Slashdot and its readers had a little fun at the expense of Al Gore, who was quoted as saying that the hurricane severity scale was going to go to 6. A correction was made the next day. The author of the piece that Slashdot linked now writes 'I retract the balance of my criticism.' Turns out Gore was misquoted. Luckily for Gore, this is the first time he's been ridiculed for something he didn't actually say. Well, except for Love Story, Love Canal, farm chores, and everyone's favorite, inventing the internet. (The original Slashdot story is here and its central link now includes the Washington Post's correction.)" From Ezra Klein's update on his earlier piece: "I'm out-of-town and so away from my tape recorder. So I asked Gore's staff about the line and they have Gore saying: 'The scientists are now adding category six to the hurricane ... some are proposing we add category 6 to the hurricane scale that used to be 1-5.' That doesn't offend my memory of the discussion and it's entirely possible I missed Gore's qualifying sentence while trying to keep up. If so, that's my fault, and I apologize."

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Re:So Al Gore is a slimy politician?

[CajunArson]

Looking at the mods that are done to my post is very interesting... when regular people who read the article and comments see my post, it goes up to +5 Insightful quite quickly.

Then DailyKos brigade and other paid schills show up with their accounts and promptly downmod the post in the name of their religious leaders. It's an interesting phenomenon and frankly it doesn't speak well to Slashdot's moderation system.