ROGER SIMON ON PEGGY NOONAN’S READING COMPREHENSION PROBLEM (Updated):

What follows is NOT the column I originally wrote and appeared on PJ Media for a few minutes and simultaneously went out in a group email.  I was alerted to a substantial error in my text thanks to the kind offices of Eugene Volokh.  In that column I excoriated Peggy Noonan for misreading the Trump-Zelensky transcript.  I was wrong. I had misread it.  I had written that Zelensky first brought up Biden in the phone call when it was the reverse.   Zelensky brought up Giuliani, which then led Trump to bring up Biden.  Originally the president had been talking about what I am almost certain was his greatest interest, the CrowdStrike company (of which more in a moment).

In making this mistake, I inadvertently proved, or at least demonstrated, the accusation I had leveled at Ms. Noonan, that we all see what we want to see.  I sincerely apologize to her.

Nevertheless, I still adamantly disagree with her column–“Democrats Set a Bear Trap”–and find it to be tendentious middle-of-the-road claptrap, excusing a movement to impeach a president for no reason other than Trump-hatred and a deranged lust for power on the part of Democrats and their media allies.

Read the whole thing.

(Updated and bumped.)