Never let it be said that I don't promptly post corrections when I'm courteously asked

Got a comment yesterday from someone who posted anonymously but is almost certainly Marcus of the Salient Points blog. Marcus lives in Town Creek, Alabama, is a born-again Christian, and has an animated graphic on his page that is creepy and just not right.

It shows a sequence of scenes from (or that he associates with, rightly or wrongly) September 11, and the words "never forget who did it." Oddly, not a word about how going to war against a country that had nothing to do with September 11 jibes with "never forgetting who did it."

Anyway, elsewhere on Marcus's site, you'll find him decrying Americans' increasing rudeness. On a completely unrelated matter, the Salient Point(tm) he wanted to politely bring to my attention was in regards to that whole "Only 2% of black Americans approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as president" thing.

Here is what the brave, Christian Marcus, who I remind you again, hates rudeness, had to say to me.

I noticed neither you nor ODub [he means Oliver Willis]posted the correct figures which were updated by the WaPo (12%).

Nah, too much copying and pasting to bother, eh?

And well, gosh darn it, sure enough, he's right, the Washington Post did add an update to a column about the poll.

[Late Update: The Pew Research Center is just out with its latest poll, which has a larger sample, and it finds Bush's approval rating among blacks at 12 percent, down only slightly from 14 in July.

Of course, the same column also originally quoted

David Bositis, a senior political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which tracks African American public opinion, told me this morning that it's clear that Bush's job approval among blacks "has taken a hit from both the ongoing things in Iraq and what happened with Katrina."

But down to 2 percent? "I doubt that it's actually 2," he said.

"But would I be surprised if it's 10 or 12? No." And 10, he said, is typically "about as low as you can go" when it comes to approval ratings.

Still, Marcus is right, and I was wrong. 98% of black people do not disapprove of the way Bush does his job. It's only 88%. I know that may not seem like anything to get too excited about to you either, but you know what? I'm going to give it to him.

What with Karl Rove's big-deal fourth testimony, the White House's clumsy gaffe of the "chat" with U.S. soldiers, Bush's low ratings, Katrina, et all, people like Marcus need all the victories they can get.

So in the spirit of Christian charity, I'm going to give him this one. Oh, incidentally, if you scroll even further down Marcus's site, you'll find this good Christian man laughing cynically at a story about someone's pet cat who was eaten by a snake.