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Pastor regrets posting baby pat-down photo on Twitter
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 11 (Reuters) – The Reverend Jacob Jester said on Wednesday he wishes he never would have posted a picture on Twitter of a baby being patted down by security agents at Kansas City International Airport.
Your reporter needs a lesson from his editor on the use of the past conditional tense.
He is paid way too much to make this kind of ignorant grammatical mistake. Whatever happened to “had”?
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I have to agree, that shouldn’t have made it onto the wire: GBU Editor
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