Point of personal privilege.
Ben Smith wrote about John McCain and the alleged need for him to look like he is technologically more sophisticated. When Ben called me, I told him that I thought it was a cheap attack against McCain. Jon Henke noted that "Howard Dean ‘was a self-described ‘technophobe’".
Ben seems to suggest that I think that McCain should wear a stupid-looking high-tech earpiece. I don’t. That was Ben’s suggestion. I told him that I thought it was a bad idea, but I joked that an older-tech earpiece might be reminiscent of a fighter-pilot’s head-gear. That is clearly not how he represented me.
I was not misquoted — I was not quoted at all –, but my opinion was wildly misrepresented.