On 3/6/2012 4:42 PM, Sam wrote:

> I thought you were. What are you arguing?

About what she was saying, not whether it was valid or had any merit.

>> Don't care.  Not what I am talking about.
>
> You said you don't support free birth control.

I don't.  Well, I mean not for adults who know better.  Those teens and 
their hormones are a different story.  I was not arguing whether she 
should get it or not, just arguing what I believe she was arguing.

> I didn't realize I had to explain my opinion is an opinion in a forum like 
> this.
> My opinion is after all the shit I heard from the left the last couple
> of years what Rush said was not offensive  > and I thought it was
 > actually funny to throw it back at them.

Just because the left does it doesn't make it any less offensive when 
the right does it.  See?  Confrontational.

  I don't know why you got your
> panties in a wad over it but I was trying to get you to realize it
> really wasn't a big thing. Apparently I was wrong, you seem gutted
> over it. Hate away if you must, I'm not the one with issues.

I am hardly gutted over it.  I voiced my opinion that Rush was a 
dickhead and wrong in this instance, and then I somehow got drawn into 
this tit for tat with you.  I have issues, sure, but I don't believe you 
don't.  My issues are not wrapped up in which side said what.  I am 
pretty middle of the road.  I agree with some things the Republicans 
supposedly believe and also some that the Democrats do.  Maybe even a 
libertarian idea or two.  THAT is what pisses me off.  Drawing a line in 
the sand and then fighting over which side is right, no pun intended.

> I almost never "open" a political discussion. I usually jump in around
> the point that everyone that's ever voted R is the scum of the earth
> knuckle dragging neanderthal. And when I enter I still try to stay
> above the fray except for the cute couple that guarantee a childish
> idiot reference whenever they see my name.

I need to explain things better.  I mean the first few comments you make 
when you do jump in.  Your opening words, more or less.

> Also, I do not polarize people. We have lefties and righties on the
> list, those that
> straddle the line are neutral to me.

You are definitely far to the right and you like to antagonize the left, 
so ...

> You need to learn about humor and context. You are to invested in your
> original opinion that you'll never change it. Rush used the insult in
> context of her not being able to afford contraception. Shultz just
> said it because he hates her.
> Surely you can see the difference.

The only difference is why they said it.  It doesn't change the fact 
that they both used it as a vulgar insult.  One was being mean.  One was 
being pedantic and condescending while using extreme exaggeration to the 
point of stupid.

>> Again, I will agree with you that what Fluke said can be interpreted in
>> a way that supports some of your arguments and assumptions.  Arguing
>> anything beyond that in the context of this particular discussion is
>> asinine.
>
> So why are you doing it? What is your point of being in this
> discussion? Do I have to agree with you to get you to stop arguing a
> point you don't have. You don't like Rush. I agree, you don't like
> Rush. I don't want you to like him. I do like him. Do you want me not
> to like him?

I was simply arguing my interpretation of what Fluke was saying in her 
testimony.  It is my position she was mostly talking about medical birth 
control.  I do see how someone could take it the way you do.  That's all.

> Did I ever say you were unreasonable? I do

I am pretty sure you did once or twice, equating my ability to have a 
reasonable discussion as being on the level of Larry and Dana, and we 
know what you think of their arguments. :)

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