For those who are interested, here are a few places where this blog and Spinsanity have been cited recently.

Cathy Young cited Spinsanity’s criticism of Ann Coulter in a Boston Globe op-ed yesterday:

Even O’Reilly has tempered his criticism by saying that, unlike left-wing satirist Al Franken, “Coulter doesn’t lie.” Yet the website spinsanity.org, equally tough on prevaricators whether on the left or right, has documented a number of egregious distortions and misstatements in Coulter’s earlier books, “Treason” and “Slander.”

Eugene Volokh cited Spinsanity’s critique of Slate’s “Bushisms” feature in an article on Slate:

[I]f, for instance, you think you’ve nailed President Bush in an error, link to the whole speech, so people can see the context. That way, when you’re mocking Bush for saying, “I’m honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein,” readers can easily go to the full quote, and see that it says

I’m honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. … I appreciate Joe Agris, the doctor who helped put these hands on these men. … These men had hands restored because of the generosity and love of an American citizen …

Bush was shaking the prosthetic hands of people whose real hands had been cut off by Hussein. In context, there’s nothing risible about his statement (as Spinsanity also noted; for similar examples, see here, here, and here).

Because of this, I think the Bushisms column shouldn’t have run this statement. But I realize that others may disagree. That’s why, rather than the impossible first-best world of “always quote accurate sources, and in context,” I prefer the second-best world in which writers try their hardest to be accurate, but also provide the sources so readers can judge for themselves.

And my post on Hispanic immigration to Iowa was picked up by Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum, the Wall Street Journal Online’s Border Lines column, and The Hotline’s Blogometer column.