--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > > <shempmcgurk@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Investor's Business Daily > > > > > Cooling Down The Climate Scare > > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > What the public needs -- and deserves -- is a credible voice > to > > > > > counter the sermons from Gore, on whose behalf cigarettes > were > > > > > distributed in 2000 to Milwaukee homeless people who were > > > > > recruited by campaign volunteers to cast absentee ballots. > > > > > > > > With this single sentence, the writer of this > > > > editorial has completely discredited him/herself. > > > > > > Why? > > > > Isn't it obvious? > > > > The writer is so biased and so devoid of logic > > s/he tries to use a rather spectacularly ridiculous > > guilt-by-association tactic to cast doubt on > > *Gore's* credibility. > > > > Giving the writer the benefit of the doubt that > > this actually happened as described, it obviously > > wasn't *Gore* who directed the recruiters to give > > out cigarettes. > > What's good for the goose is good for the gander. > > Then, Judy, you must be consistent in your application of that > standard: those campaign workers for Bush in (I think it was) South > Carolina in 2000 who attacked John McCain for having a brown- > skinned daughter (the one they adopted from Bangladesh) should not > be associated with Bush and Bush should not suffer politically from > that either.
Not with Bush personally, but almost certainly with Rove, his closest adviser. And we aren't talking about Gore suffering politically from this guilt-by-association; we're talking about discrediting global warming on the basis of a non sequitur squared. > I prefer the following: Respondeat superior: a leader takes > responsibility for the actions of those below him. These recruiters, as it happens, were acting entirely on their own; they weren't part of the Gore campaign or the Democratic Party apparatus. Should Jodie Foster take responsibility for the actions of John Hinckley? (Extreme example, but it's the same principle.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
