Politics | Nancy Pelosi Newsweek Retracts Pelosi's Anti-Obama Quote Reporter's notes misconstrued as quotation By Neal Colgrass Posted Oct 3, 2011 3:35 PM CDT Copied President Barack Obama speaks with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, Friday, July 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) So maybe President Obama can see around corners after all? Newsweek editors abruptly pulled a quote today they had attributed to Nancy Pelosi, about how Obama's team "can’t see around corners; they anticipate nothing." Turns out those words were written by a reporter in her notes and misinterpreted as part of the Pelosi interview, Politico reports. Sighs Newsweek: "Newsweek and The Daily Beast regret the error." Read These Next Trump isn't talking about a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. The sheriff says he's never seen a worse case of child sex abuse. Journal pulls a controversial paper on arsenic after 15 years. Google exposes man's butt, is ordered to pay him $12.5K. Report an error