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June 16, 2006, 1:23AM
Jackson Lee accepts apology from White House's Snow
Spokesman had ID problem with 2 black lawmakers


By JULIE MASON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - In the self-blame department, White House spokesman Tony Snow had a political doozy.

"I apologize for being an idiot," Snow said Thursday during his daily briefing to the news media. "I misidentified Representative Sheila Jackson Lee as Cynthia McKinney."

Last week, Snow gave reporters a routine account of a meeting President Bush conducted with members of Congress on Iraq. In the retelling, Snow confused one African-American Democratic female lawmaker for another.

"Cynthia McKinney made the point yesterday in the meeting with the president that the one thing they had gotten from generals there were thorough and honest assessments of what's going on," Snow said then.

But it was Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, who had made the point. McKinney, a Democrat from Georgia, wasn't at the meeting. Reporters were unaware of Snow's mix-up because they had never seen the private session.
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No likely confusion here.