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Dr. Oz is Not a Copy Editor

Talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz may be an expert on poop, but spelling and proofing charts may be a weak point. Oz appeared at the National Governors Association winter meeting, which aired on C-SPAN2.

This photograph comes to us courtesy of C-SPAN Communications Director Howard Mortman. See if you can find the typos in Oz’s chart. The first bullet reads: “Cannot lost waist without muscle.”

On a positive note, Oz told the governors that they need to have sex at least twice a week. He called it “highly achievable” for this group of individuals. Watch here.

Morning Oopsy: WaPo Spells Barry’s Name Wrong

WaPo can be such a fair-weather friend when it comes to a certain ex-mayor. And so it was last week when the hometown daily couldn’t be bothered to look up the correct spelling of Marion Barry, the city’s colorful, twice-reelected, former mayor and now a councilman representing Ward 8. We know it’s hard, as most outlets are coping with a shortage of hands on deck. Still, most readers know that Barry is not Berry, and therefore, a glaring error even if it is only on a photo caption on page B5.

 

Morning Oopsy

RNC’s eagle-eyed Communications Director Tim Miller spotted this error on the program at the Washington Press Club Foundation Dinner last night.

“[Jason Chaffetz] gets burned by the press club,” Miller wrote on Twitter with this accompanying photograph. Turns out Chaffetz is a lawmaker who represents Utah’s 3rd congressional district. So nowhere near New Mexico.

Morning Oopsy: The Week’s Ambinder Keeps Readers Hanging

Throughout the night Twitter was ablaze with reaction to The Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson‘s response to women being integrated into combat posts. In case you were actually, well, sleeping — a rarity in Washington — he wrote on Twitter, “The latest feminist victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war.” At 1:30 a.m. The Week‘s Marc Ambinder whipped up a post on the “5 silliest reactions to women in combat.” Number one on the list was Carlson’s. Only Ambinder never finishes his thought and leaves us hanging with this sentence:

“Society protects the vulnerable not”

Come on The Week — did your proofers knock off early? Let’s hope the powers that be let Ambinder finish his thought sometime today.

Politico Memo Renames Techy ‘Christ’

Yesterday Politico, along with five other media outlets, launched their Powerjobs site, dedicated to connecting Washington’s high profile employers connect with potential employees. What’s humorous is the internal memo that Politico‘s Chief Revenue Office Roy Schwartz sent out yesterday in which he inflates a regular member of the development team to the level of Christ.

Thankfully, we don’t think Chris Buddie, Politico‘s Director of User Experience, has a god complex. But strangely enough, his bio says that when he’s not busy diagramming user-flows, he’s in his woodshop handcrafting furniture and his famous cutting boards.

See the memo… Read more

Morning Oopsy: Bo the ‘Dag’

From the typically meticulous CBS White House radio correspondent Mark Knoller

 

Morning Oopsy

Current TV was promoting Politico‘s Ben White online Monday when they — gasp! — got his title wrong. In the journalism world, this is the equivalent to spelling your mother’s name wrong. How could they do this?

They wrote, “Chief White House correspondent for @politico @morningmoneyben joins @CurrentSpitzer to talk #fiscalcliff. Tune in to #Viewpoint in 10min.”

But actually, White is not Politico‘s Chief White House correspondent… Read more

Morning Oopsy: Reporter Makes Prez Sound Crazy

Politico congressional reporter Jake Sherman must be burning the midnight oil these days, or else attending one too many Phish concerts in Washington state. Today he announced on Twitter: “POTUS and Obama spoke today, aide tells me. They’re not saying anything more.”

(Hmmm, so the President of the Free World is talking to himself these days, is that it?)

The Shermanator soon got a ton of crap and so he did something that most definitely would not get anyone to calm down: He told the entire WORLD to relax… Read more

Morning Oopsy: Mika Butchers Congresswoman’s Name

This morning GOP Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss the fiscal cliff. Host Mika Brzezinski appeared ecstatic to talk with her and have her on the program. When it came time to say goodbye, Mika grew flustered. So much so that it’s difficult to write out precisely how she butchered the congresswoman’s name, but it was something like this.

“Congressman Cathy mmmmcrkmmm McMorris Russell…WOW!” she said.

McMorris Rodgers smiled and didn’t try to correct the host.

But actually her last name is Rodgers. Full name: Cathy McMorris Rodgers. And she’s a congresswoman, not a congressman. But seeing as the GOP struggles to bring women into positions of committee leadership, maybe that slip was understandable.

We reached out to McMorris Rodgers’ press office for comment.

Morning Oopsy: Anchor Says it’s Friday

This morning NBC Washington morning anchor Angie Goff got a little ahead of herself. Hey, it can happen to anyone, right? The days blur together, confusion reigns.

“TGIF! Yeah!” she exclaimed to Twitter followers this morning at 5:23 a.m.

Within five minutes she figured out that she had gotten her days wrong. “Haha this holiday sked messing me up!” she explained at 5:28 a.m. “Ok I take it back … Sorry to get you all excited! Happy Thursday!”

Good morning Angie!

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