: No, I think pulling a single statement from an article about a broader subject is a sign of a poor reference.  Other similar references have been used as well, stating the specific from a generic.  If the incident is truly noteworthy, then a full article on the topic would have been written by some news source.  This has been done with several of the recent criticisms pulling small samples of content (regardless of fact) and ignoring the rest of the article, even when the article has contradictory information.  For example, the article about Beck's operation was used to show he thought the medical industry was bad, but in fact, the article quoted him as saying he had the best doctors in the world.  If Beck's commends about reparations are so important, someone would have written an entire article on the topic, and not just thrown it out a a minor blip in a larger context.