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 Photographer denies close-up shots were attacks on Trump figures. Suspect in Brown University shooting is found dead. NASCAR is devastated by driver's death in plane crash. Cartoonist Scott Adams paralyzed amid a battle with cancer. Report an error