Spell Check Faux Pas or Freudian Slip

Today's amusing (?) clip from Sunday's Washington Post (p. A05):

Words Fail Us

"We think of the patient hope of men and women across the centuries who listened to the words of the profits and lived in joyful expectation."

-- A White House transcript of President Bush's speech at the Christmas tree lighting on Thursday. Nineteen minutes later, a corrected transcript changed "profits" to "prophets."


I rest my case. Merry Christmas!