Earlier on Thursday, Ms. Angle's campaign had issued a statement calling the remark incorrect and saying there was "some confusion" about it, but Mr. Obama made clear he was not buying it.
One of his politically incorrect remarks — he said that it was "not cowardly" for the 9/11 hijackers to have stayed in the plane when it hit the building — touched off an uproar.
"If I were a leading shareholder in JP," he concludes, "I'd invite Kjell out for lunch, and simply ask: 'What the hell do we do now?'" This piece was edited on 13 July to remove some incorrect remarks.
Start with Bruce Bartlett, who mentions in his mea culpa that when he asked conservative colleagues what they thought about some politically incorrect remarks quoted in the New York Times, it turned out that they were completely unaware of the whole thing – they didn't read the Times, not even to find out what their enemies were saying.
While recounting Beard's story, Mr. McEwan gives the reader some uproarious moments, like a sequence in which Beard makes some politically incorrect remarks about women and becomes the subject of a media feeding frenzy, somewhat reminiscent of the 2005 imbroglio involving Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard.
In his own post Christensen added the statement: "In a world gone mad, it took less than 48 hours for my admittedly incorrect remarks regarding the Merrylands police station attack to become valid in wake of commentary by the political and media elite on the Munich attack".
Back in the 60's Cockroft had a minor reputation in the music business in London -- he even met Paul McCartney twice -- but he torpedoed his career by making some dumb, politically incorrect remarks on television and has since moved to Italy, where he lives meagerly off his royalties.
Update: Having missed the broadcast and only seen a portion of Senator Thune's remarks, I was incorrect about his position.
Still, Kluwe's own politically incorrect remarks have sparked their own slew of controversy.
Scarpa later clarified his remarks, using the incorrect gender pronoun when referring to Amanda, "He himself was guilty of attempted murder," a reference to the suggestion that being a trans prostitute meant an increased risk of HIV, and thus an increased risk of transmission.
