Forgive me for delving back into the vat of boiling Karo syrup I did a half gainer into on Monday with my story on the Romney campaign and the anti-Mormon push polls, but this Salt Lake Tribune story by Thomas Burr is begging for comment:

National Review, a conservative magazine, posted on its blog a report alleging that Romney was really behind the calls, purportedly hoping to smear McCain while making his campaign look like the victim.

Uh, that’s a wildly inaccurate description of what I wrote. First of all, I wrote a stand alone article on NRO, it appeared nowhere on any “blog.” Second, I laid out some evidence that Romney’s consultants may have recently employed the calling vendor that made the anti-Mormon calls and as suggestive as that is, I never went so far as to say that the Romney campaign was behind the calls. Finally, I cited a source suggesting that the poll may have been for internal use in the Romney campaign and the McCain questions were a matter of misdirection, an idea of which I said “While that’s a novel theory, it’s a jump.”

I will now return to making cranberry relish…