Not content to let her recent Common Dreams essay correct the, uh … misperception, Barbara Kingsolver is contemplating legal action against the The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, and the The Weekly Standard for taking her infamous anti-flag screed “out of context,” The Boston Globe reports [link via A Dog’s Life and Balloon Juice].

Kingsolver has been pressing The Wall Street Journal for a correction, but a Journal spokesman, Steven Goldstein, says the paper ‘in no way defamed Ms. Kingsolver’ […]

[…] Gregg Easterbrook, who wrote the Journal piece, says he had seen only the version of the column that had been picked up in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. There, an editor changed the question mark to a period. The newspaper printed a correction apologizing for ‘changing the sentence’s meaning from irony to fact.’

But Easterbrook is largely unrepentant. Kingsolver’s intended punctuation, he acknowledges, ‘changes the meaning somewhat, not dramatically.’

In addition to contemplating how best to clog the U.S. courts with petty idiocy in a laughingly transparent attempt to maintain her own mewling victimhood, the best-selling author of The Poisonwood Bible is likewise said to be considering petitioning the U.N. for relief: “I’m sure somebody somewhere either did or said something racist,” Kingsolver told reporters. “That’s like, kinda the same thing as criticizing me, isn’t it…? Isn’t it…? C’mon, guys, help me out here…”

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