In an exchange of e-mails last night with ABC's cordial and
classy Jake Tapper about yesterday's post on Fred Thompson
and the Terry Schiavo case, Tapper told me that it was a local
reporter, not he, who asked the question to which Thompson was
responding, and thus that if there were indeed any "faulty premise"
(I stand by that assertion, by the way) that set the context for
Thompson's answer, the premise was that of somebody other than
Tapper. I do stand corrected; I thank Tapper for correcting me; and
I apologize for the error.