While reading the Wall Street Journal this morning, I thought I caught them in a (relatively rare) factual error:
[Barack Obama's] subsequent [2004 U.S. Senate] victory was helped along by newspaper disclosures of embarrassing material from the divorce papers of a Democratic opponent.
Kaufman, Jonathan. “For Obama, Chicago Days Honed Tactics“. The Wall Street Journal 21 April 2008: A1.
I thought this passage referred to Jack Ryan, the at-the-time inevitable Republican nominee. Ryan’s candidacy was destroyed as his divorce papers revealed that his ex-wife alleged he forced her to go to sex clubs. However, the article later indicated that this passage referred to Blair Hull, a Democratic primary candidate whose divorce papers revealed he allegedly beat his ex-wife.
The Wall Street Journal did not escape completely unscathed, however, as I spotted this passage from the same article:
[In 2005, Obama] and his wife bought a mansion in Hyde Park for $1.65 million, $300,000 below the asking price.
Kaufman, Jonathan. “For Obama, Chicago Days Honed Tactics“. The Wall Street Journal 21 April 2008: A11.
Obama’s house is in Kenwood, not Hyde Park.
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