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Posted At : December 4, 2008 12:17 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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I don't propose to waste my time and LVA's money fact-checking all five-and-a-half pages of Las Vegas Sands President William Weidner's controversial Oct. 28 speech to the Anti-Defamation League (in which he refers to "anti-Semite Jimmy Carter," among other provocations). Perhaps he's right that the future of Israel was "election priority number one" as he explicitly posited. For purposes of argument, let's concede that and any other premises of Weidner's stem-winder.
But it's an inescapable fact that Weidner needs to brush up on his footnoting skills. As in, if you're going to lard your text with 24 footnotes, make sure you're crediting the right sources ... and quoting them accurately. One sharp-eyed Las Vegas Sun reader found three specious references to a Weekly Standard article by Willy Stern about Mali. I poked around and, lo and behold, Weidner meant to reference a linked Stern article entitled "Where the Jews Vote Republican."
As a historian, he makes a heckuva COO.
Weidner further blots his copy book with his mangling of this Stern quote: "[Hanna] Siniora predicts that 80 percent of adults in the West Bank support Obama, and 99 percent in the more radicalized Gaza Strip." In Weidner-ese, this becomes "... with 80% of the West Bank Palestinians and 99% of those of the Gaza Strip supporting him," as though referencing actual poll numbers.
Accurate? Who knows? Misleading? Definitely. If you're going to brag on your mad history skillz -- as Weidner repeatedly does -- you've got to do better than this.
Weidner may indeed be, in his own words, "an insufferable amateur historian." But Douglas Brinkley and Michael Beschloss needn't lose any sleep.
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