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Does the New York Times Stylebook Counsel Writing Around Quotes with the Word ‘Obamacare’?

By Rich Lowry

January 28, 2014 5:54 PM

The New York Times today quoted from our immigration editorial. Here is what we wrote: “The last thing the party needs is a brutal intramural fight when it has been dealt a winning hand on Obamacare.”

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Here is how the Times rendered it: “‘The last thing the party needs is a brutal intramural fight when it has been dealt a winning hand’ — troubles with the president’s health care law – ahead of the elections, the editorial said.”

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