All of George Will's corrections

May 6, 9:32 AMSkepticism ExaminerDylan Otto Krider

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Post continues to stand by inaccuracy

Considering Fred Hiatt's reluctance to correct errors by his conservative columnists, I was curious to find out how often corrections have been issued for George Will's columns, so I did a Lexis/Nexis search for every occurrence of "correction appended" in the document for all dates with the byline "George Will" and "George F. Will".

Here are the results: A total of 14 corrections in the Lexis/Nexis database, two of them issued by the Washington Post, one in 2004 and one in 2008. The one in 2008 blames an "editing error" due to the multi- layered fact-checking process. Hiatt took over the Op Ed page in 2000.

Here are the papers where they appeared, and the verbiage of the correction:

Search for byline George Will:

The Times Union (Albany, New York),
February 25, 2008 Monday
1 EDITION
CORRECTION: Correction published February 26, 2008, George Will's column on Monday's Commentary page incorrectly stated the number of electoral votes for the state of Minnesota. It has 10 votes.

The Times Union (Albany, New York)

September 3, 2006 Sunday
Correction Appended
3 EDITION

CORRECTION: Published September 6, 2006 George Will's column in Sunday's Perspective section incorrectly stated that a chair now in U.S. Sen. John Warner 's office had been used by President Theodore Roosevelt at the Portsmouth peace conference. Roosevelt did not attend the conference.

Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia)

February 19, 2001, Monday

CORRECTION-DATE: February 26, 2001

CORRECTION: Because of the observance of President's Day, there were no bankruptcy filings, marriage applications, divorce filings or property transfers for Feb. 19, 2001.

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)

November 5, 1998 Thursday
Correction Appended
SUNRISE Edition

CORRECTION: PUBLISHED CORRECTION RAN 11/10/98, FOLLOWS:
* George F. Wills column on the Nov. 5 Commentary page contained an incorrect reference to Brutus instead of Cassius. The eighth paragraph should have read: ``Third, Republican leaders engineered the end-of- session carnival of spending capitulations. They authored the October ads associating the party with what the country hates most -- prolongation of the Monica subject. And on Tuesday afternoon, they tantalized followers with forecasts of substantial gains of House seats. These leaders may yet turn around and see former followers who suddenly have, like Cassius, lean and hungry looks.''

LEX/NEX for George F. Will byline

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

October 22, 2000, Sunday , FINAL
Correction Appended

CORRECTION-DATE: October 29, 2000

CORRECTION: Part of a paragraph in last Sunday's George F. Will column was accidentally covered in the production process. The full paragraph read: "But, then, Palestinians have long been execrably led. In the First World War their leaders sided with Turkey, which ruled Palestine and was on the war's losing side.  Palestinian leaders sided with Hitler in the Second World War, with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and with Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. Today, sad to say but necessary to say, there are no Palestinian leaders who can be Israel's 'partners for peace.' "

South Bend Tribune (Indiana)

September 2, 1999, Thursday INDIANA, MICHIGAN, MISHAWAKA, PHM, TRIBUNE
Correction Appended

CORRECTION-DATE: September 12, 1999

CORRECTION: Recently this column reported that the contract of Auburn's new football coach, Tommy Tuberville, contains incentive clauses pertaining only to athletic, not academic performance. In fact, it awards him a bonus if the team's graduation rate equals the NCAA student-athlete average, or a larger bonus if it equals Auburn's overall undergraduate average.

The New York Times

June 15, 1997, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
Correction Appended

CORRECTION-DATE: June 15, 1997, Sunday

CORRECTION:
A review in The Times Book Review today, about "The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency," by Robert Kanigel, refers erroneously on page 10 to Adam Smith's description of the division of labor in "The Wealth of Nations." The reference should read, "Smith was sanguine about this because specialization increases
a worker's 'dexterity,' and hence 'the quantity of the work he can perform' " (not "the quality"). Because of an editing error in the review, on page 8, a quotation from
Frederick Winslow Taylor omits a word; the sentence should read, "In our scheme, we do not ask for the initiative of our men" (not "ask the initiative").

South Bend Tribune (Indiana)

September 15, 1995, Friday, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, TRIBUNE
Correction Appended

CORRECTION-DATE: September 18, 1995, Monday

CORRECTION: Because of a page layout error, portions of Friday's George F. Will column, on the Opinion Page, were not printed, interrupting three sentences. Here are the sentences as intended: "Instead, welfare reform may give whole new meaning to the phrase 'women and children first.' "" 'There are,' " says Moynihan, 'not enough nuns, not enough Salvation Army workers' to care for children who would be purged from the welfare rolls were Congress to decree (as candidate Bill Clinton proposed) a two-year limit for welfare eligibility." "Moynihan says that a two-year limit for welfare eligibility, and work requirements, might have worked 30 years ago, when the nation's illegitimacy rate was 5 percent, but today it is 33 percent."

St. Petersburg Times (Florida)

March 7, 1991, Thursday, City Edition
Correction Appended

CORRECTION-DATE: March 28, 1991

CORRECTION:
It was good to hear from Walter Mondale again, even if he wrote only to box my ears for writing in my column for March 7 that he had opposed the liberation of Grenada. I erred and am pleased to set the record straight.

The Washington Post

February 20, 2004 Friday
Correction Appended
Final Edition

CORRECTION-DATE: February 21, 2004
CORRECTION: George F. Will's Feb. 20 column indicated that Indiana Gov. Joseph Kernan canceled a $15 million contract with a firm in India for processing state unemployment claims, and that the contract was given to a U.S. firm that will charge $23 million. In fact, the contract is on hold.

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)

May 8, 2006 Monday
Correction Appended
Sunrise Edition

CORRECTION-DATE: May 9, 2006
CORRECTION: : * In his syndicated column published Monday in The Oregonian, George F. Will included Maureen O'Hara in a list of British contributors to American cinema. O'Hara is Irish.

THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

September 29, 2006 Friday
Correction Appended
CORRECTION-DATE: Friday, September 29, 2006
CORRECTION: Americans spend about $2 billion annually on Easter candy. The amount was incorrect in the George Will column published Sept. 30.

THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

November 30, 2006 Thursday
Correction Appended

CORRECTION: In a George Will column that ran Thursday, "Seattle schools play the race card," the Seattle School Board president quoted as saying "skin tone matters" was former board president Barbara Schaad-Lamphere.

The Washington Post

January 10, 2008 Thursday
Correction Appended
Regional Edition

CORRECTION-DATE: January 12, 2008
CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, George F. Will's Jan. 10 column contained an incorrect second reference to the number of states holding a Democratic primary or caucus on Feb. 5. It is 22. Montana and West Virginia are holding only Republican caucuses on Feb. 5.