The Goodest Campaign

Maureen Dowd: “In my Saturday column, I quoted Biden’s line to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, about how he would feel if Trump were sworn in as president because he refused to step aside: ‘I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.’ … After my column posted Saturday morning, T.J. Ducklo, a Biden campaign spokesman, emailed me to ‘flag’ that ABC News had updated its transcript to read: ‘I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.’”

“Ducklo asked if I could ‘tweak’ the column and change the word ‘goodest’ to make my piece ‘consistent with the corrected transcript,’ even though the revised version was also gobbledygook.”