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Concord Monitor, 2 July, 2006:

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It had nothing to do with misguided entries about the Kennedy assassination, but we spotted a mistake on Wikipedia last week - a line in the bio of Franklin Pierce Law Center Dean John Hutson that said the retired rear admiral and former chief judge advocate general of the Navy "has openly speculated about running" for Congress.
Hutson, a frequent critic of the Bush administration's handling of the war on terror, says he doesn't know where that came from.
"In fact, when I've been asked about running for Congress I've said pretty unequivocally that I'm not interested," Hutson said via e-mail. "For one thing, I'm a registered Republican but a pariah in GOP circles now. For another, U.S. congressmen fill an important but thankless job."

So I'm removing it. -- Arwel (talk) 00:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The paper is calling it a "mistake" because he is now denying that he wants to run. That doesn't mean it is a mistake. And a journalist should know better than to take a potential political candidate's denial of wanting to run, absent any corroborating evidence, as evidence of a "mistake" in another source. Actually, notice how Hutson's response includes mention of him having had discussions about the possibility - a classic non-denial denial. He also names as the chief reason he does not now want to run that he is "a pariah in GOP circles", due to his opposition to the Bush cabal, which didn't start until after his original speculation about running. Notice even how Hutson puts the wording of his other "reason" for not wanting to run - because "it's an important but thankless job"?!?! Sort of like serving as an admiral in the Navy - an important job that doesn't receive enough appreciation, but someone's got to do it - someone who cares more about getting things done for America than receiving lots of public thanks. Terrific preemptory spin he's feeding the papers. (And since when is being a congressman a "thankless" job anyway?) I'm replacing the statement with "he has denied plans to run for congress." - Reaverdrop (talk/nl/w:s) 22:00, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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