F-Bomb Dispute Resolved Quickly

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BY DAVID MARTIN

Kansas City, Missouri, Councilman Terry Riley called me this morning to complain about this column. Riley accused me of misquoting him when I wrote that he said: “All you guys do is fuck me every time we interview.”

Riley said this morning that he used the verb “screw.”

I told the councilman that I quoted him accurately. “No, you did not quote me accurately,” he responded.

But a recording of the conversation exists, and it supports what appears in print.

A digital recording device was running when I approached Riley on February 7 and asked for an interview. The device was in my coat pocket, which explains (a) the less-than-stellar quality of the recording and (b) Riley’s apparent willingness to drop an f-bomb and later deny it. Here’s the conversation: