DEPARTMENT OF DE-EXAGGERATION:

TODAY'S HEADLINES
The New York Times on the Web
Monday, June 24, 2002
QUOTE OF THE DAY :
"I cannot tell you how serious this is. This is like a freight train coming at us."
-GOV. JANE DEE HULL, on the wildfires in Arizona.

In our continuing quest to determine whether anyone edits the Times anymore, we present this quote, where the actual disaster is far worse than the imagined one. The Governor can be forgiven an inadequate metaphor, but what about the nitwits at the Times? It's like publishing a quote from Sonny Corleone saying : "I feel like I've been punched". Posted by Orrin Judd at June 24, 2002 1:21 PM