Talk:List of M*A*S*H characters/Archives/2015

Misquoted source on Hawkeye Pierce politics
The Alan Alda quotation about Hawkeye Pierce's political leanings is incorrectly transcribed, omitting a key word that alters its meaning. The article gives the quote as: "Some people think he was very liberal. But he was a traditional conservative." But what Alda actually says in the video interview used as a citation is: "Some people think he was very liberal, but he was *also* a traditional conservative." (Emphasis added.) This a non-trivial error; the meaning is very different. Alda did not say that the character is conservative rather than liberal. He said the character contains elements of both liberal and conservative viewpoints.Jtcarpet (talk) 00:11, 4 January 2015 (UTC)