Miss the Mark

If Mark Kirk was hoping to consummate a campaign stop-loss policy, he probably should not have talked to the Sun-Times:

"I simply misremembered it wrong," Rep. Kirk said of the "Intelligence Officer of the Year" award he listed on his resume and boasted about on the floor of Congress.
Kirk says he 'misremembered' military record

If operatives think the remark would make a good headline, it did.

Your LakeCountyEye reviewed a transcript of the entire Sun-Times missive. A miscellany of ten misconceptions, therein and herewith, that 10th Congressional District Congressman Kirk hoped to dismiss:

10 Additional Admissions Submitted by Mark Kirk

Recent attacks do not contain a missemblance of truth Regrettably, misappropriated means were taken Hopes to mispel any disconceptions about his record Always tried to maintain a professional misdemeanor The press should focus on the Rod Blagojevich mistrial It is miscumbent upon Senator Burris to misrepresent Illinois You've got to misaccentuate the positive Miseliminate the negative Latch on to the misaffirmative Don't miss with mister in-between I dissemble that remark Failed mob banker, Dislexi Disingennoulias Misunderestimated how easy it is to be mistook for George W Bush

Your LakeCountyEye: mispensing mispatches for your miscrete misportment.