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Orrin Hatch Apologizes. Kind Of.

By Rachel Maddow

Apparently this open letter thing works!

Senator Hatch has now issued a letter climbing down from the pile of lies he told about Carol Lam on Meet the Press this weekend.

He now says thought he was talking about a person named "Alan Bersin" when the name "Carol Lam" accidentally escaped his lips instead.

Given the massive media attention and debate about "Alan Bersin" recently, I can understand his mistake.

For more on this weird controversy, tune into my next show, titled, as always, "Yet Another Two Hours of Talk Radio All About Alan Bersin".

Click on the letter to enlarge it...

Hatch apology letter
 

Rachel

PS -- Click here to see my podthing about Orrin.

Hatch's comments about Lam's record was "inaccurate?"

He said Lam had no prosecutorial experience, and she DOES. He said she'd been a law professor and a Clinton campaign manager, and she WASN'T. That makes EVERYTHING he said about her inaccurate. And if his excuse is that he thought he was talking about someone else, well, that puts his competence into question! >:(