Many of us have heard about Ron Suskind's book which deals with the Obama Administration based upon 700 hours of interviews with folk including the president. The one making the press is, "this place would be in our for a hostile workplace...Because it actually fit all of the classical legal requirements of a genuinely hostile workplace to women." by Anita Dunn. According to an interview by the Washington Post, what she really said was, "I said, if it weren't for the president, this place would be in our for a hostile workplace...Because it actually fit all of the classical legal requirements of a genuinely hostile workplace to women."
She was quoted out of context and told the Post that she told Suskind "point blank" that the White House was not a hostile work environment.
As is usually the case, context is everything. Pluck a few well-chosen words out of someone's sentence, and you completely change the meaning of what they said. A common pastime in politics.
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