“ ‘You know, the president — it is no secret — sometimes makes grammatical errors,’ Ms. Perino said, adding, ‘The integrity of the transcripts are very important to me, and I’ve made that clear.’
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- “are”? “The integrity … are”?
- in the quoted statements, the Presidential press secretary was explaining why, after White House stenographers had falsified the record of what President Bush had said the previous day, by inserting the word “children” when the president had ungrammatically used the word “childrens”, she had insisted that it be corrected
- was she chosen for the job because her grasp of grammar’s like that of the President?
