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What the NY Daily News fails to mention is that Palin backtracked her criticism of Rush Limbaugh’s use of the word retard.

ProWomanProLife » Well, that’s tasteless 2010

So your saying that, according to TPM, Emanuel has "backtracked" from something he didn't say?

Emanuel Backtracks From 'Trigger' Comments; Dem Says CoS Made "Hell Of A Mistake" 2010

POLITICAL ANALYST: He did, and I think she kind of backtracked a little bit today.

CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009 2009

You suggest I "want it both ways", an accusation that is generally taken to mean someone is advancing two contradictory propositions (and hence that the argument has logical flaws), and then on no basis whatever that I've "backtracked" implying that I'm losing the argument.

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And then all of a sudden, the computers kind of backtracked and said no, there was only one earthquake.

CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007 2007

And so the president kind of backtracked earlier this week.

CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2007 2007

He kind of backtracked and said I don't mean to draw a straight line between Hillary Clinton's vote for the war in Iraq and what happened in Pakistan today, but he did make the same argument that Obama has been making about diverting resources away from getting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan because of the war in Iraq and he did not back off of that.

CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2007 2007

And then all of a sudden, the computers kind of backtracked and said no, there was only one earthquake.

CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007 2007

She then kind of backtracked on her initial contract with the Morenos, where she was going to be paid $15,000 to be a surrogate and carry one baby for them.

CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2005 2005

She then kind of backtracked on her initial contract with the Morenos, where she was going to be paid $15,000 to be a surrogate and carry one baby for them.

CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2005 2005