Brendan Nyhan

Brooks misquotes Hillary

Today, David Brooks repeats the false report that Hillary Clinton referred to “Wall Street money-grubbers” — a widely circulated misquotation:

Clinton rails against “Wall Street money-grubbers,” but her policies are often drawn from the Wall Street wing of the party.

In fact, as her campaign’s fact-checking blog points out, she actually criticized “Wall Street money brokers” — you can listen to the audio here (MP3).