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When newspaper editors are idiots

An editor in North Carolina wrote a column apologizing for an earlier satirical column.

Here’s an excerpt from his apology.

“I’d intended for Vern to represent a universal hick: a mountain hillybilly in Washington state or eastern Ohio, a cornshucker in Nebraska, a sodbuster in Illinois, all places I have lived and know well.”

Mountain hillbilly in Washington state?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "The Slice." Read all stories from this blog