Friday I wrote about Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation — an advocate for broader legal immigration — telling the New York Times that he liked what he heard on the issue from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Moore’s good vibes seemed strange, considering how not long ago Walker was echoing one of the Senate’s strongest advocates for legal immigration reduction, Senator Jeff Sessions.

As mentioned in yesterday’s Jolt, fans of Walker reached out, contending that the Times’ version of events simply wasn’t accurate.

I asked Stephen Moore, and his version of events is quite different from the way the Times characterized it. Here’s what Moore told me:

The conversation that Walker had wasn’t with me; it was an off-the-record conversation with someone else. We also talked to the governor at our dinner in February about immigration. He’s not going to go in a nativist direction.

(That “someone else” appears to be Larry Kudlow.)

Jonathan Martin of the New York Times now reports . . . eh, never happened, never mind:

In the interview on Wednesday in which he had recounted Mr. Walker’s assurances that he was “not going nativist,” Mr. Moore said their conversation had occurred in “the last three or four weeks.” Asked if it had been in person or on the phone, Mr. Moore said: “I chatted with him on the phone.”
The article detailing Mr. Walker’s shifts in his positions, including Mr. Moore’s account of his conversation with the governor, was published online early Thursday morning.
Mr. Walker’s advisers contacted Mr. Moore about his comments in The Times article that afternoon, one of them said the following day.
But it was not until Sunday afternoon that Mr. Moore emailed this reporter to say he had “miscommunicated something to you in our interview.”
“The conversation that Scott Walker had on immigration wasn’t with me but one of the principals of our Committee to Unleash Prosperity,” Mr. Moore wrote. “In that conversation it became clear that as I said ‘he is not going in a nativist position on immigration.’”