Funny, since he never would’ve apologized unless he got called out. Typical.
Via Truth Revolt:
Self-proclaimed progressive and Harvard professor Robert Putnam used Twitter to apologize to Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) for misquoting the senator as saying “all black men are sexual predators.”
Mark Hemingway of The Weekly Standard is responsible for bringing about the apology. In his Monday blog, Hemingway recalled Santorum recently citing Putnam’s book, Our Kids, which broaches the subject of the breakdown of the American family and its effect on children, especially in contrast to the stable homes of the 1950s. Santorum appeared to agree with Putnam’s work and used it to speak out against low income men who are notorious for fathering children with multiple women.
Putnam interpreted this statement as a blanket statement against black males. He told BuzzFeed: “But there is a presidential candidate, who yesterday quoted me as saying therefore — he’s quoted me as saying all black men are sexual predators. I’m not going to say who it is but what I’m trying to say is, he’s a conservative and he took what I was saying and sort of so misinterpreted it that it’s nothing like — it’s just isn’t even in the universe of what I said. [sic]”
Hemingway was able to pinpoint Santorum as exactly to whom Putnam was referring. In his piece, he quoted what Santorum actually said: