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This kind of mistake is common

 
By Gene Owens | Published: November 7, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

President Obama, explaining why he had delayed disclosing Iran’s secret project to produce nuclear weapons, was quoted as saying that "it is very important in these kind of high-stakes situations to make sure the intelligence is right.”

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Buck isn’t sure whether the president was referring to one kind of situation or several kinds of situations, but he is sure of one thing: The sentence, as quoted in The New York Times, had its numbers wrong.

Obama was referring either to "this kind of situation” or "these kinds of situations.” Buck is inclined to pin the error on The New York Times and not on the president; several other sources gave a grammatical version of the quote, uttered at a news conference at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh.

The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Capitol Hill newspaper "The Hill,” and Pittsburgh television station WTAE all quoted Obama as saying "these kinds.

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