Maureen Dowd Calls Out Biden White House for Demanding ABC News Change ‘Goodest’ Line in Interview TranscriptKristina Wong 8 Jul 2024
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Sunday slammed the Biden White House for pressuring ABC News to edit out President Joe Biden’s usage of the non-existent word “goodest” during his Friday interview with George Stephanopoulos and for pressuring her to edit her column that highlighted his usage of the word.
Dowd wrote on Sunday that, in her Saturday column, she had quoted Biden saying to Stephanopoulos: “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.”
Dowd said she had done so after she and her researcher listened to the video ten times and checked the ABC News transcript, which showed that he said “goodest.”
She then said that, after the column was posted on Saturday morning, Biden campaign spokesman T.J. Ducklo emailed her to “flag” that ABC News had updated its transcript to change the word “goodest” to “good as,” so that the transcript read, “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.”
Dowd said Ducklo asked her if she could “tweak” her column and change the word “goodest” to make it “consistent with the corrected transcript” even though, she wrote, “[T]he revised version was also gobbledygook.”
She said Ducklo got combative when she did not immediately agree, writing to her, “I think it would be quite unusual if the Times asserted the president said something that the news organization who conducted the interview says he didn’t say …”
Ducklo claimed that ABC News had made the decision on its own, even adding, “Surely you are not suggesting otherwise.”
Ducklo wrote her, “Had another convo on this. ABC News received the tape and confirmed the error to us. Then made the correction.”
Dowd said she was “more confused than ever.”
“What tape? From whom?? Why the runaround??? Given the White House’s egregious coverup about Biden’s sag from aging, the spokesman’s coyness seemed de trop,” she wrote.
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