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Re: level of debate
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Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:38:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > The text below was via an e-mail from a friend, it made me wonder just what
> > the level of debate in the USA is. I ckecked out a couple and they appeared
> > valid.
To Scott: That's *nuthin'!* You should see what the *other* side is doing!
The Anti-war crowd for the most part are radical fruitcakes. I mean, feminists
protesting *naked*???? <shudder> Wearing *pink* to protest? It's all
entertainment to the Left.
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> Well, be fair. Almost all are unattributed or from comedians.
Exactly.
> And
> Limbaugh is hardly an icon of thoughtful debate.
Easy there. It's so easy to slip into ad hominem attacks against Limbaugh
because of his "schtick"-- his politics are pretty sound. (His zinger is the
best one quoted, BTW:-)
> That leaves Roy Blount and
> Rumsfeld. Nuff said...
And I'll say another thing-- Rummy is *exactly* the kind of "no BS" guy I want
as my Def Sec!
JOHN
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> > -- Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
> > -- Rush Limbaugh
> > -- Argus Hamilton
> > -- Rep. Roy Blunt (MO)
> > -- Dennis Miller
> > -- Conan O'Brien
> > -- Jay Leno
> > -- David Letterman
> > -- John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv
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| (...) Please tally all protests and render the percentage of those that took place naked. And what's wrong with pink? I mean, other than I won't be seen in it? :-) You seem to be taking the cheap-shot demonizing route in trying to belittle a (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) "The anti-war crowd *for the most part* are radical fruitcakes"?? Okay. Those 100,000+ people marcning in Toronto that I was with--were most of them radical fruitcakes? Were half of them radicak fruitcakes? Were 10 percent of them radical (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Be careful of using a non-representative sample to ridicule the whole, or as a basis for undermining the soundness of the argument. If certain, shall we say, unusual forms of protest have occurred, that hardly discredits the thinking of the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, be fair. Almost all are unattributed or from comedians. And Limbaugh is hardly an icon of thoughtful debate. That leaves Roy Blount and Rumsfeld. Nuff said... (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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