Oopsie! - I noted, as did Drew, a rather blatant mistake in the NYTimes article on gay Republicans this weekend. The blooper is that George Bush is given credit for appointing Democratic fundraiser James Hormel as ambassador to Romania. In fact, it was Clinton who made Hormel's ambassadorship to Luxemburg a recess appointment in 1999 over the objections of Senators such as current Bush attorney general, John Ashcroft.

Rather, the Bush Administration permitted Michael Guest, a long-serving professional foreign service officer, to be elevated to ambassador to Romania shortly after 9-11. The point the Times was trying to make is the same -- conservatives were pretty tee'd off about Guest too -- but this was a pretty basic mistake involving national politics and world affairs at the (former?) "paper of record."