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 3 police officers were killed and 2 injured in southern Pennsylvania. A big shake-up at the top of Ben and Jerry's hierarchy. Man initially detained in Charlie Kirk case has been charged. The woman whose review of her local Olive Garden went viral has died. Report an error