--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Jeez, Shemp, you have a lot of nerve dumping on > > > > > > Barry for making stuff up when you do exactly the > > > > > > same thing yourself. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Several days ago I posited a question here > > > > > > > whether the birther movement was started by > > > > > > > those on the left and Democrats, not by > > > > > > > Republicans as had been popularaly reported. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Judy responded that, no, it was a radical right- > > > > > > > wing group. > > > > > > > > > > > > As you know, I said no such thing. > > > > > > > > > > > > I said I didn't know who had started it. Nowhere > > > > > > did I say anything about a "radical right-wing > > > > > > group." You made that up out of whole cloth. > > > > > > > > > > > > Did you really think I wouldn't call you on this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I apologise. I was going on memory and that's what I remember you > > > > > saying. > > > > > > > > > > I'll try and go back in the archives and see exactly what you said. > > > > > > > > > > And could you please stop using that fucking line "as you know". See > > > > > if you can dig in your soul and assume that people can can make > > > > > honest mistakes. > > > > > > > > Here's why I said what I said: the following paragraph, Judy, is from > > > > message #226476 on August 3 at 2:03pm where you wrote: > > > > > > > > "Don't know who started it, but Hillary supporters > > > > were among those pursuing it. According to Wikipedia, > > > > it had been limited to rumors circulated via email > > > > until a writer for the National Review (a conservative > > > > publication) published an article about the rumors in > > > > June 2008, shortly after Obama's nomination, suggesting > > > > that Obama could quash the rumors by making his birth > > > > certificate available:" > > > > > > > > Are you objecting to the word "radical"? Certainly not "right wing" > > > > because that is what, as you yourself describe them, they are: a > > > > CONSERVATIVE publication. > > > > > > "Conservative publication" is not a synonym for > > > "radical right-wing group." And as I said, the > > > rumors had been going around well before the > > > National Review article appeared, so the National > > > Review most certainly didn't *start* the birther > > > movement. > > > > > > Again, I said explicitly that I *didn't know* > > > who started it, as your quote from my post > > > documents. > > > > > > > At the very least I didn't deserve the "as you know" and the accusation > > > > that I made it out of "whole cloth" and it was an honest mistake. > > > > > > I don't think it was, Shemp. I think you knew what > > > I said and just decided to put words in my mouth. > > > > Try looking at your fellow human being in the same way that I hope you look > > at a cup that is half full, Judy. > > You have a long history of doing this, Shemp. You don't > get the benefit of the doubt, sorry. You just did it > again with the HuffPo-Nazi business. You did it last > week in a post that put all kinds of words in my mouth > about Al Gore Sr. that I never said. > > If you're going to repeat what somebody else said, > you just showed you're perfectly capable of looking > it up and getting it right. But you didn't. You made > up something that served your argument. >
Actually, in this case I was right.
