[Trigger warning.]
"I am mortified by my mistake, and can only hope the purity of my motive, to find a way to connect with the graduates and encourage them to a life of service, will allow you to forgive me." — Journalist, but not fact-checker, Ann Curry, who while delivering the commencement address at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, erroneously cited as alumni graduates of Wheaton College in Illinois the Rev. Billy Graham, Tyrannosaurus of Turpitude Dennis Hastert, and Wes Craven.
Yeah, because movies about rapists and pedophiles is what service is all about.
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