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Quack translation: How CNN website originally quoted Obama saying 'we screwed it up'

“We screwed it up” got lost in translation before landing in the headline of a story on CNN’s website:

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https://twitter.com/passantino/status/414137204307288064

Ha!

At some point the mis-quote was caught, because CNN’s “screwed the duck” headline turned into this:

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We preferred “screwed the duck,” but whatever.

Many on Twitter either also heard “screwed the duck” or repeated it because of CNN’s original story:

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