"Sorry, critiquing the positions of a major public figure does not equate with calling a college student who testifies in Congress a slut and a whore. You're going to have to come up with a much better example to convince me it isn't false equivalence."
By testifying in such a controversial matter, she became a major public figure. According to Sam, she is not a student (I don't care one way or another so I am not going to look it up). "Maybe Ollberman has called college republicans Nazi sympathizers our something?" Like this: http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/worst-persons-college-republicans-at-uc-berkeley-an-obama-heckler-and-joe-arpaio "I started a thread the other day about Putin blogging for them and how I never read that site and was confused." I didn't read that thread. I bypass a lot of threads that don't interest me. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2012 6:05 PM, "Jerry Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > " For one, that's a set of charges leveled against a sitting Senator, not > a > > college student " > > > > No. He was running for office. > > My bad. Major party candidate then. I didn't look up the date of the quote. > Same thing though. Rich, established candidate for major office. Just a tad > different than college student. > > > Yes, she was a college student who willing put herself in the public spot > > light. If you can't stand the heat . . . don't go in the kitchen. > > Sorry, critiquing the positions of a major public figure does not equate > with calling a college student who testifies in Congress a slut and a > whore. You're going to have to come up with a much better example to > convince me it isn't false equivalence. > > Maybe Ollberman has called college republicans Nazi sympathizers our > something? > > > "I don't read Huffiington Post, so I have no clue what they do. " > > > > My respect for you just increased. > > I started a thread the other day about Putin blogging for them and how I > never read that site and was confused. > > > "Still a hell of a long ways to hop to convince me that even Olbermann > > is anywhere > > near the category of slime that Rush is." > > > > I'd say they are opposite sides of the same coin. > > > > Olbermann just doesn't have the national exposure that Limbaugh has. > > > > Possible, I suppose, but I've still seem nothing to suggest that > equivalence. > > Judah > > > J > > > > - > > > > Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be > shot. > > Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it > for > > what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart. - Winston > > Churchill > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347981 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
