Here’s a wonderfully ironic correction appended to a column by Kathleen Parker, who seems hell-bent on becoming the Ariana Huffington of columnists with her recent jolting ideological switch:

CORRECTION — As several readers have pointed out, a Sarah Palin quote in my column for release Oct. 4 leaves out two words, “the way,” which some feel distorts what Palin intended. I took the quote directly from transcripts that were available at the time I was writing. My editors at The Washington Post Writers Group always fact-check quotes, as they did this time. They used The Washington Post transcript, which still shows the quote as it appears in my column. The omission was unintentional.

Priceless. The Washington Post gets it wrong because it used The Washington Post as a source.