Can I Quote You?

Just a brief update:

Remember the Rabin Center event I attended last week? Well, I met a journalist there, Genevieve Long of the Epoch Times. She subsequently filed a short article online, and lo and behold, there's my name and a little quote at the bottom. Actually, the full "scoop" is a bit more complicated. We talked for a while at the event, and I was rather nervous at first (since she told me I might be quoted), so I just rambled away, trying to sound smart. Bad move. When I checked to see what she had written, she had actually published a long quote by me - which made me sound terribly pro-Israel. I emailed her in dismay - please, please change or delete part of that quotation! That's not what I meant!

She was very kind and did delete the offending remarks. Whew! A good learning experience though. I feel bad for famous people who get quoted all the time. You better have practice and know your "talking points" because otherwise it's just too easy to let slip something inoffensive in person but glaringly off-color in print.

Anyway, I managed to pull through with my reputation for being balanced intact. If you're interested, here's the link to the article: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/18653/