>None of those claims contradict each other >Merritt says it's off the table, but Kurt Olsen says it's still on the table and that "Mr. Merritt would not be pr

>None of those claims contradict each other >Merritt says it's off the table, but Kurt Olsen says it's still on the table and that "Mr. Merritt would not be privy to that information" Those two claims contradict each other, but the paper is reporting them accurately. The fact that people are having so much trouble parsing this goes to show the extent to which we have become accustomed to newspaper editorialization. :-)