Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23924.Martin_Luther_K...

[Edit] Sorry, no.. He retweets the attribution, and admits the full quote is likely false.

[Edit] Further, here is the user who added this quote to the site.. Err, just 2 hours ago. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5286778-tatyana

Unsurprisingly, it was not maliciously intended, it was just misattributed. As McArdle acknowledges, a facebook user had posted the first sentence, followed by the King quotation in quotations marks. When retweeted, the quotation marks were dropped (apparently to fit Twitter's character limit, according to McArdle).

You might think that its unfair criticism of an author for sharing a quick thought on a blog, or for making a mistake. You would be wrong. This post by McArdle is only one of many instances of her doing extremely poor research/lying in her posts for the Atlantic. An MIT Prof has dedicated pages upon pages to demonstrating how poor of a journalist McArdle is: "... the key point is that McArdle makes a lot of stuff up, and hence is untrustworthy across the board: why should you believe any argument from someone whom, everytime you check closely, gets even the little stuff wrong — and I agree with that."

and "It is now...simple prudence to assume that any fact she presents is, as she puts it, “a hypothetical” unless footnoted and checked."

http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/its-not-that-m...

It should come as no surprise that McArdle has whole hosts of people, entire websites dedicated to her being fired. To slack up on McArdle is to tolerate shoddy journalism not based in the facts.